CHILDREN OF GOD
a chronology of the six eras of religious development, from prehistoric sacred origins to the digital and post-secular age.
The History of God and Humanity
Prehistoric animism, shamanism, Neolithic ritual, ancient temple religions, and the earliest sacred foundations of myth, ancestor reverence, cosmic order, and ritual life.
Late ancient and Axial Age transformation, when ritual civilizations gave rise to ethics, philosophy, prophetic religion, renunciation, liberation, and sacred reform.
Classical, Hellenistic, imperial, and late antique religion, including Buddhism, Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, classical Hinduism, and philosophical religion.
The medieval religious world of monasteries, mosques, temples, cathedrals, scholastic systems, mystical paths, pilgrimage networks, and sacred empires.
Early modern religious transformation through Reformation, global missions, Sikhism, Islamic empires, colonial encounter, revivalism, and Enlightenment critique.
Modern and contemporary religion shaped by globalization, reform, secularism, interfaith dialogue, new religious movements, digital worship, and ecological spirituality.