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100
The fall of jeruselum
This was in 70AD. It pushed the church outward, continued its separation from judaism. It pushed the church outward and continued its separation from judaism. It left the church in a state of needing to establish its foundation. They Established a canon (authoritive books of scripture) and leaders also known as bishops and creeds. This seperated the church in 3 ways. -
325
The council of Nicea
Church councils are formal meetings of bishops and representatives of several churches who brought together to regulate points to doctrine or disipline. The meetings may be of a single church community or may involve an church province, a nation or other civil region, or the whole church.
It was the first worldwide gathering of the church, called to make a final decision on Jesus’ divinity. -
451
The council of Chalcedon
Council is called together to discuss the nature of christ.
The decision is made about how jesus’ two natures work together. Jesus is one person who is both fully God and man. Extra- biblical terms are used to expound on ideas in Scripture. -
530
St. Benedicts Rule
Benedicts’s rule was a book written in 530 AD to describe various Monastic practices to live a life of a spiritual athlete. Despite both the strenghts and the weaknesses that can be seen in this way living, the immense depth, range, and spiritual strenght of monasticism was the driving force of the christian faith for a very long time. -
Apr 1, 1054
The Great Schism
This marked the first official split of the church. The thing that split the church was the question of papal authority. After the Schism, the Crusades took place and only further made the problem worse between Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodoxy. -
Apr 21, 1521
The Diet of Worms
Martin Luther wouldn't recant because he didn't want to go against the word of God. He wanted them to show him with scripture that what there saying is true. This is also part of Luther's speech. These writings changed the christian faith because they were a powerful reassertion of grace, specifically of grace communicated through the self-giving life and the sacrifical death of jesus christ. -
Jun 1, 1524
The selling of indulgence
Indulgence is a grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory. People would give the church money so their loved ones could go to heaven. Martin said this was one of the things that made the church corupt or bad. -
Conversion of the Wesleys
The Wesleys and their colleagues renewed doctrines of God’s grace that had grown stale in the church and applied these doctrines to the working class. It helped reform society by focusing on world issues like education and starting campaigns against slavery and excessive drinking. -
The Edinburgh Missionary Conference
A conference of missionaries called together at the United Free church in scotland in the shadow of Edinburgh castle. This marked the expansion of missions and a renewed focus to bring the Gospel to the world. -
The coronation of charlemagn
The pope crowned the most powerful ruler in europe showing the synthesis between the church and the roman empire. The pope became theoretically more powerful than the emperor as he was the "spokesperson" for God. This event lead to some abuses of power in the church.
