Западнохристиянски църкви: Разлика между версии

Западното християнство изиграва голяма роля в оформянето на западната цивилизация.<ref name="PerryChase2012">{{cite book|author=Marvin Perry, Myrna Chase, James Jacob, Margaret Jacob, Theodore H. Von Laue|title=Western Civilization: Since 1400|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6jytVCocwMC|date=1 янаури 2012|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-111-83169-1|page=XXIX}}</ref><ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/507284/Roman-Catholicism Roman Catholicism], „Roman Catholicism, Christian church that has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization“. Encyclopædia Britannica</ref><ref name="Caltron J.H Hayas">Caltron J.H Hayas, ''Christianity and Western Civilization'' (1953), Stanford University Press, p. 2: That certain distinctive features of our Western civilization—the civilization of western Europe and of America—have been shaped chiefly by Judaeo – Graeco – Christianity, Catholic and Protestant.</ref><ref name="Orlandis">Jose Orlandis, 1993, „A Short History of the Catholic ChurchChurch“,“ 2nd edn. (Michael Adams, Trans.), Dublin: Four Courts Press, {{ISBN|1851821252}}</ref> С разпространяването на европейския [[колониализъм]] по света, латинската църква достига [[Америка]], [[Филипини]]те, [[Австралия]], [[Южна Африка]] и части от [[Западна Африка]].