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27
Origins
Ministry of Jesus-crucifixion-resurrection -
Period: 27 to 100
Early Christianity
The formative history of Christianism
The early Christian groups were strictly Jewish -
33
Apostolic age
The Apostolic Age is named after the Apostles and their missionary activities. (Jewish Christians) -
60
Apostolic Fathers
Church fathers who lived in the 1st and 2nd century. Probably knew or have contact with some of the Apostles. -
Period: 64 to 313
Persecution and Martyrdom
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100
Rise of Christians sects and Persecution
The emergence of various forms of Christianity: Donatism, Arianism, Proto-orthodox -
Period: 100 to 325
Ante-Nicene Period
Diversity and new forms of Christianity -
Period: 180 to 313
The Great Church
fast growth and structural development. despite the persecution of Christians, the religion became established numerically and organizationally, -
251
Proto-Monasticism
egyptian monasticism, St Anthony- Anthony the great
the father of monasticism -
301
Armenia the first country to legalize Christianity
King Tiridates III. Was the State religion in 310 -
313
Edict of Milan: Religious toleration and Freeedom
gave Christianity legal status and a reprieve from persecution but did not make it the state church of the Roman Empire. -
Period: 313 to 476
Late Antiquity
The period from the rise of Christianity under Emperor Constantine until the fall of the Western Roman Empire -
325
First Council of Nicaea (Nicene Creed)
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340
Introduction of Monasticism in the west
St Athanasius visits Rome -
380
Edict of Thessalonica
Made Nicene Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. by Emperor Theodosius I -
381
Council of Constantinople
The Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in 381 affirmed the primacy of Rome. -
431
Council of Ephesus
confirmed the original Nicene Creed,[2] and condemned the teachings of Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, who held that the Virgin Mary may be called the Christotokos, "Birth Giver of Christ" but not the Theotokos, "Birth Giver of God". -
451
Council of Chalcedon
and two natures of Christ, human and divine. It also adopted the Chalcedonian Creed, which describes the "full humanity and full divinity" of Jesus, the second person of the Holy Trinity. -
Period: 476 to 800
Early-Middle Ages
from the fall of the western Empire until the coronation of Charlemagne as "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III -
632
Rise of Islam
Muhammad's death -
726
Iconoclasm
began within the Eastern Christian Byzantine church. In Leo's realms, the Iconoclast Council at Hieria, 754 ruled that the culture of holy portraits (see icon) was not of a Christian origin and therefore heretical. -
Period: 800 to 1300
High Middle Ages
from Carolingian Renaissance(was a period of intellectual and cultural revival) until several conversions in east Europe -
1054
Great Schism
It was the first major division since certain groups in the East rejected the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon.the East-West Schism was actually the result of an extended period of estrangement between Latin and Greek Christendom over the nature of papal primacy and certain doctrinal matters like the filioque, but intensified by cultural and linguistic differences. -
Period: 1300 to 1453
Late Middle Ages
The great Famine of 1315, until the dominance of the Ottoman Empire. -
1452
Gutenberg's Bible
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Period: 1452 to
Early modern period
From the print inventing until Age of Enlightement (Age of reason) -
1517
Publication of the Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther
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1521
Edict of Worms
The edict condemned Luther and officially banned citizens of the Holy Roman Empire from defending or propagating his ideas. -
1545
Council of Trent
