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70
Fall of Jerusalem
With it’s “home” and two main leaders now gone, this left the early Church in a precarious position. They had to make decisions about what they believed and who had authority to decide things. Canon, creed, and episcopacy were the theme of the new formed church. This is a new beginning of the starting of church. It represent the first step forward to the church nowadays from old church. -
313
The Edict of Milan
Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius. Allowed for the religious freedom of the Church and stopped persecution. Inevitably it would lead to Christianity becoming the main religion of Rome. Rather than facing sweeping persecution, Christians now would have freedom which led to its rapid spreading through the Roman Empire. The Church and the empire began to process of being interwoven, which will lead to some complications as we get further into the history. -
325
The Councils of Nicea
Constantine convened this council for the sake of solving some heated disputes that were arising in the Church on divinity of Christ
View 1: Arianism:Stressed the transcendence of the Father (He was greater than Jesus)
View 2: Orthodox View:Athanasius was the most notable speaker for this view. Jesus and God are both eternally of the same substance. It was a sharpened fidelity to theology and authority of Scripture. And an increasing intermingling of the Church and the world/politics. -
415
Council of Chalcedon
View 1: Christ has only 1 nature. The humanity of Christ is so swallowed up by his deity that is disappears
View 2: Jesus is one person existing in two natures. Known as the “hypostatic union”. Mary is seen as the God-bearer. Mother of the one who is fully and always God.
View 3: Christ has two separate and distinct natures that are only loosely conjoined. Decision is made about how Jesus’ two natures work together. Jesus is one person who is both -
530
St. Benedict’s Rule
St. Benedict’s Rule was such important is because the monastic movement plays a key role in the survival and spread of the Church. Monasticism is the state of being secluded from the world in order to fulfill religious vows. Monks of known for practicing asceticism, meaning “exercise, training, practice.” Monasticism gave up things that are unnecessary on building their faith, thus they can get closer to God, on which they did a significantly good job on keeping the Church that era. -
Dec 25, 800
The Coronation of Charlemagne
The Pope provided a crown to the most powerful ruler in Europe showing the synthesis between the Church and the Roman empire. This action symbolized the synthesis of the sacred and secular spheres of life. The pope became theoretically more powerful than the emperor as he was the spokesperson for God. This event connected the Pope and the emperor closer, which reflect the increasing power of papacy during that period of time. -
Jan 1, 1054
The “Great Schism”
The Great Schism of 1054 marked the first official split in the Church. While there were various issues, the big issue that split things was the question of papal authority. After the schism, the Crusades would take place and only further drive a wedge between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. This is the first formal split of the Church into two different branches. This led to the separation of teaching in churches. -
Apr 7, 1096
The Crusades
The purpose of the Crusades were to take Jerusalem back from Muslims. Besides that, it was seeking more land for the empire. However, this two-hundred year period of wars has a lot of depth from a historical standpoint, for the sake of Church history, the continued increase of the wealth and power of the Church. Despite mixed results, by the end of the Crusades, the Church had grown in its wealth and power in the Roman empire. -
Jan 1, 1521
The Diet of Worms
Martin Luther did not recant on his writings in front of the emperor and others gathered at Worms. His writings changed the Christian faith because they were a powerful reassertion of grace, specifically of grace communicated through the self-giving life and the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. It led to the Protestant reformation and Catholic counter-reformation. -
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The Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening was a religious movement among colonials in the 1730s and 1740s. The English Calvinist Methodist preacher George Whitefield played a major role, traveling up and down the colonies and preaching in a dramatic and emotional style, accepting everyone as his audience. The Gospel is taken from the “Church” and into the “world”
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The Edinburgh Missionary Conference
It was a conference of missionaries called together at the United Free Church in Scotland in the shadow of Edinburgh castle. It was vitally important to the revival of missions was the focus on the involvement of women.
The Edinburgh Missionary Conference marked the expansion of missions and a renewed focus to bring the Gospel to the world. The Church begins to take on different forms in different cultures. -
Church nowadays
Churches nowadays teach variously, but all of them are teaching about our great God. This kind of minor division on teachings is good for us because this meets different people's desire of learning different things about God.
