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Period: 33 to 330
Early Church Era
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150
Justin Martyr First Apology
The work of the first major scholar/apologist, makes Christianity reasonable to thinking pagans -
Period: 330 to 500
Cristian Empire
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381
First Council of Constantinople
Nicene Creed ratified and condemned Apollinarianism -
405
Jerome Completes the Vulgate
The first translation in Latin from the original Greek and Hebrew. -
Period: 500 to 1500
Middle Ages
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732
Battle of Tours
Charles Martel halts the seemingly unstoppable Muslim invasion. -
1054
The East-West Schism
The Latin and Greek portions of the church permanently separated into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church. -
1272
Thomas Aquinas Concludes his Word on Summa Theologiae
The greatest theologian of the Roman Catholic Church. -
1370
Dante's Divine Comedy
Gives masterful poetic expression to medieval concepts of heaven,hell,and purgatory, and shapes later thought. -
1370
Catherine of Siena's Letters
A treasure of Western mysticism. -
1380
John Wyclif supervises Bible translation
Leaving the first complete English Bible. -
1456
Gutenberg Produces the first Printed Bible
Sparked a revolution in society and the church. Books could now be produced in quantities and at prices that made them available to many people, not merely to scholars and monks.