id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2659 Christians - Wikipedia .html text/html 5110 713 66 Kenneth Samuel Wuest holds that all three original New Testament verses' usages reflect a derisive element in the term Christian to refer to followers of Christ who did not acknowledge the emperor of Rome.[18] The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames.[19] However Peter's apparent endorsement of the term led to its being preferred over "Nazarenes" and the term Christianoi from 1 Peter becomes the standard term in the Early Church Fathers from Ignatius and Polycarp onwards.[20] According to the study, Christians in North America, Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Asia Pacific regions are highly educated since many of the world's universities were built by the historic Christian denominations,[55] in addition to the historical evidence that "Christian monks built libraries and, in the days before printing presses, preserved important earlier writings produced in Latin, Greek and Arabic".[55] According to the same study, Christians have a significant amount of gender equality in educational attainment,[55] and the study suggests that one of the reasons is the encouragement of the Protestant Reformers in promoting the education of women, which led to the eradication of illiteracy among females in Protestant communities.[55] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2659.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2659.txt