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170
The Fall of Jerusalem
Significance:
-Pushed the Church outward, continued its separation from Judaism.
-Left the Church in a state of needing to establish its foundations.
-Establishing a canon (authoritative books of Scripture)
-Establishing leadership (Bishops)
-Establishment of creeds (basics of belief) -
325
The Council of Nicea
-Decision on Jesus’ divinity: Jesus was of the same substance of the Father.
-Arianism (God the Father is greater than Christ) is rejected as heresy.
-Increasing intermingling between Rome and the Church. -
451
The Council of Chalcedon
-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.
The council of Nicea (325 AD)
Decision of Jesus divinity: Jesus was on the same substance of the father
Aranyam (god the Father is greater that Christ) is rejected as heresy
Increasing intermingling between Rome and the Church
The council of Chalcedon (451 AD)
Decision is made about how Jesus two natures work together -
530
Benidict's Rule Was Written
-Describes various Monastic practices to live a life of a Spiritual athlete.
-Despite both the strengths and the weaknesses that can be seen in this way of living, the immense range, depth, and spiritual vigor of monasticism was the driving force of the Christian faith for a very long time. -
Apr 15, 1054
The Great Schism
-The Church separated East and West
-The East spoke Greek and made the Eastern Orthodox Church
-West used Latin and made the Roman Catholic Church -
Apr 15, 1521
Diet of Worms
In 1521, Martin Luther would not recant on his writings in front of the emperor and others gathered at worms
These writing changed the Christian Faith because they were a powerful reassertion of grace, Specifically of grace communicated through the self-giving and the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ
The splitting of the Church and religious war
Leads to the protestant reformation and Catholic -counter reformation
The state of the modern evangelical church -
The conversion of the Wesleys
The Wesleys and their colleagues “renewed doctrines of God's grace that had grown on the church and applies these doctrines to the working class
The gospel is talked from the church into the world
Helped social recom of society by focusing on issues like education and sheeting campaigns against slavery and excessive drinking
the Wesleys became the fathers of outdoor evangelism
The Church in America has its first awakening during this time -
The Edinburgh Missionary Conference
The Edinburgh Missionary conference marked the expansion of missions and a renewed focus to bring the gospel to the world
This did not come without the cost of thousands of Christians martyred
The Church begins to take on different forms in different cultures -
The Cornoation of Chalemage
-The Pope provided a crown to 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
-In man’s sinful nature, this lead to some abuses of power in the Church.
