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Christianity Timeline

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Age of Persecution and Apostolic Fathers125 150 190

Clement of Rome Tertullian Irenaeus

Ignatius Justin Martyr Tertullian

Polycarp Theophilus OrigenClement

The Didache - Sunday worship was norm

Jerusalem

Council "Old Roman Creed" Canon Crystalized Liturgies Formalized

3 to 5 BC 50 150 175 200

Birth 1. Salvation by Grace of Lord Jesus First Form of Apostles' creed Books of New Testament 1. Elders Bcome"ordained"

of 2. Not by works, Judaism, not religion Affirmation of Essential Beliefs Agreed Upon. to do liturgies

Jesus "Do you believe in God the Father..? 1. Apostolicity. 2. Sacraments of Baptism &

Do you believe in Jesus Christ..? 2. Able to edify Communion Ritualized

Do you believe in the Holy Ghost..?" 7 Books still Disputed: a. Baptism by Immersion &

Salvation James, II Peter, II & III John, Pouring (didache)

X Good Works End Time Beliefs Jude, Hebrews, Revelation b. Baptisms done at

XI Christ's Sacrifice XIX Return of Christ In 367 Athansius lists all 27. Easter & Pentecost

XII New Life in Christ XX Resurrestion Books as Canonical. c. Infant baptism accepted

XXI Judgment - Latter Councils agree. by 400

XXII Final DestinyXVIII Kingdom of God Scriptures XVII The Holy Sacraments

V Sufficiency

VI Authority #6 War & Peace

#1 False Worship #3 The Lord's Day VII New Testament


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Roman Government Declines in Power -- As the Church Authority Increases

325 - Golden Age of "Scientific Bible Study" - Great Councils Decide Major Points of TheologyJerome - Vulgate Version -- Augustin -- Chrystosome -- Athanasius

Christianity Becomes

Persecution the Official Religion

Intensifies Toleration Edict of Milan Council of Nicea Council of Constantinople of the State

250 311 313 325 381 395

Results of Persecution: Constantine Trinity Nicene Creed

1. No church property Freedom for All 1. Arius - Jesus was created by God - Divine but not Deity.

2. Martyrs - witness - Religions 2. Athanasius - Christ was co-eternal, consubstantial, equal.

great growth 3. Eusebius - Compromise.

3. System of Elders This council went with the compromise, but over the next

system of deacons 60 years saw it was not to be compromised.

4. Lack of ability to Developed what we now call the icene Creed in 381,

meet and correct in Constantinople.

false teachings REFORM

GOD MOVEMENT

250 - 350 Growth in Ascetism I. The Holy Trinity Simeon StylitesAnthony II. The Father Ascetic who sat

III. The Son on 60ft. Pillar

IV. The Holy Spirit for 30 years


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Reform Movement

Council of Ephesus Council of Chalcedon Monastic Order (Communal) Pope Gregory I Islam Begins

431 451 480 - 543 590 622

Man's Part is Salvation Nature of Jesus St. Benedict First "Pope" Mohammed

1. Pelagius - human will 1. Antioch Theologians 1. Rejection of wealthy Bishop among Bishops 570 - 632

is invlolved - denied original stressed "two natures" "Government Church." 1. By now the Petrine

sin, or man's depravity. humanity - word - man 2. Rejection of the world's theory accepted.

2. Augustine - God did it all. 2. Alexandrian Theologians ways. 2. Warship becomes

3. Cassianus - Compromise stressed divinity - 3. Dedication to: controlled and formalized

Council went with a word - flesh prayer and study. a. Sacredotalism

modified Augustine view - 4. Missionaries Priest is necessary to w rship.

stated like our Article VIII The council did not b. Gregorian Chant

try to go either way, 3. Mary worship begins

MAN but stressed the "Mary never sinned"VIII. A Free Moral Person Biblical view that

Jesus was fully God

AND fully man, yet #15 Simplicity of Life

joined in one #11 Stewardship of Possessions

individual - "one

person, one

substance"

By this time 22 Articles

of Religion were decided upon


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962

Roman Empire Ends Holy Roman

- Rise in Feudalism Empire Begins

Lasts 'til 1806 - Napoleon

Reform

Donation of Popin Charlemagne Otto Crowned Movement

754 800 962 1050 1054

Begins Last of the Great POPES Rome excommunicates

"Papal States" Roman Emperors now crown Michael Cerularius, the

Church now enters (7 ft. tall - a man of war) the Emperor Patriarch of Constantinople

the temporal and hold control

Political arena. over affairs Church begins to take hard

of state. line on reformers

1050 Scholasticism Begins Mysticism Re

"Doctors" of theology - an attempt to organize theology into a "system"-systematic theology Reacted to by1. Anselm - "I believe in order that I may know"-FAITH IS PRIMARY

2. Abelard - "I know in order hat I may believe" - REASON IS PRIMARY

3. Thomas Aquinas - synthe is of FAITH & Reason - Man is not totally depraved

4. Bacon - Scientific method


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EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH BEGINS Eastern Orthodox

1. Doesn't accept Rome' Authority

2. Allows marriage of Clergy.

3. Wants Easter to be on th right date - not day (Sunday)

4. Holy Spirit proceeds fr m Son - not Father Son

5. From now on church c anges very little

PAPAL RULE Reform Movement Peak of Papal

Power

Crusades 2nd 3rd Refrom Movement

College of Cardinal Pope Gregory VII Begin Waldenses Crusade Crusade Inocent III Friars

1059 1073 1075 1184 1187 1192 1198 1210

Election of Pope Increased Papel First Pete Waldo Prime Franciscans & Dominicans

Power Crusade (Also excommunicted) Example of Poor Clares

Took 1. Wanted new "life" Papal Power Franciscans begin Hospitals

Jerusalem in worship Philip & Ingeborg Dominicans begin Universities

from Moslems 2. Bible in vernacular of France

Interdict in 1200 Stayed within the church

closed churches as a reaction to cold

reasonable scholasticism

cts to Scholasticism

major movement in mys icism1. Catherine of Siena sa visions about evils f clergy

2. Meister Eckhart fusion of human essence ith divine essience in ecstatic experience

3. Thomas a Kempis - imiitation of Christ


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Eastern Orthodox

Decrease in Papal Power / Increase in "Nas

tions" States

--Strict celibate hierarchy causes decline

in clergy mor le and morals

Children's 4th Lateran Synod of Toulouse Pope Papacy Moved to Roots of the

Crusade Council and 6th Crusade Gregory IX Boniface Avignon Lollards Reformation

1212 1215 1229 1223 1301 1309 1382 1401

Transubstantiation 1. Forbade Commissioned Make a last ditch State John Wycliff Death penalty

Life - giving vernacular the dominicans Proclamation Controlled for being a

sacrament scriptures to punish "Unam sanctum" Pope 1. Christ is head of Lollard

controlled by heresy Church.

the church 2. Retook Jerusalem Pope at Roman Church 2. Bible in vernacular.

leaving the Roots of has spiritual and 3. Opposed to

Tremendous Mosque of Omar "Inquisition" Temporal power over transubstantiation

power over all, and submission 4. Forced to retire, but

Kings and to the Pope is "necessary began "Lollard's"

commoners for salvation." travelling preachers

1350 -- Renaiss


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Eastern Orthodox

NATION STATES RU E Nations Support Reforma

No more Papal Temporal A

THE REFORMATION

Council of Luther's Luther is

Reform Council Florence Pius II Columbus Erasmus 95 Theses Excommunicated

1415 1431 1439 1460 1492 1516 1517 1520

John Huss, Tried to change Pope responds Decreed: Prints N.T. 1. Scripture as Authority

Wycliff student, the Church by increasing "No more in Greek 2. Faith as means of salvation,

burned at stake sacradotal reforming Original not "transubstantiation"

by the sacraments. councils truths 3. Christ as Head of the Church

Council of 7 Sacraments now can be now set free 4. Clean up the bribery and

Constance all demanding a held." immoral clergy

priest. 5. Stop selling indulgences

Until now refromation was controlled within - but now new chu

nce & Rebirth -- 1 50


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Eastern Orthodox

tion

thority Lutherans

1. Change in worship:

a. Preaching central - not mass.b. Vernacular congregational singing.

2. New Church government system.

3. Elementary education for children (S.S.)

4. Bible as Authoity.

5. Faith brings salvation.

German Reform Reformation

Melanthon N.T. Attempt Result

1521 1522 1523 1530 Augsburg Confession 1534

Reformation Luther 29 Articles of Religion Henry VIII

Theologian puts N.T. Act of Supremac

in vernacular

ANABAPTISTS

ches begin! Conrad Glebel 1526

contested infant Persecutionbaptism. by

Rebaptism Drowning

required.

The Church

XV The Church

XVI The Language of Worship

#8 Public Schools


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Counter Reformation

Eastern Ortho ox

ROMAN CATHOLICS 1540 Jesuits Ordained

Lutheran

1545 Council of Trent

1. Added Apocryphal Books to Bible

2. Church, Bible, equal in authority

3. Faith AND works necessary for salvation

Church of England -- Anglican -- A erican Episcopal 4. 7 sacraments reaffirmed

1. King is Head of Church 5. Transubstantiation reaffirmed

2. Roman theolgy 6. Purgatory begins

3. Bible in Engish 7. Pope is head of the Church

John Calvin's "Institutes"

1536 Total Depravity -- God does it all

Unconditional Election -- Double predestination

Limited Atonement -- God saves only those elected

Irresistable Grace -- If God chose yo - you will be saved

Perseverance of the Saints -- will never fall away

Reformed Churches1545

French Huguenots

Anabaptists


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Eastern Orthodox

Roman Catholic

Lutheran

English Presbyterian Rem in Calvinistic1606 American Congregational Churches

Religious Religious

Reformation Reformation Puritans-Congregation-Ba tist-Remain Calvinist

1549 1563 1567

1. Clergy can marry 39 Articles

2. Communion up to laity 1. Comunion, not transubstantiation

3. Book of Common Prayer 2. Bible as authority Anglican Becomes Arminian High Church

Veinacular Worship 3. Calvinian influence Arminius Not

1. Man is not totally depr ved-He can respond to God

2. All can be saved-condi ion is out response

3. Atonement is universal

4. Grace can be resisted

5. Persons can fall away

1560 John Knox - Scottish Presbyteria

French Huguenots

Anabaptists - Mennonites

XIV Restoration


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Eastern Orthodox

Roman Catholic

Lutheran

1629 Mass Bay Congregatonalists English PresbyteriaAmerican Congrega ional

1616 Independent Baptists Independent Baptists

REFORMER

1703 - 1791

John Wesley

1678

Quaker

1618 Reformed Churches Scottish Presbyterian

United Presbyterian

Dutch Reformed

Mennonites


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Eastern Orthodox

1854 1870

Roman Catholic Immaculate Papal

Lutheran Conception Infallibility

English PresbyterianAmerican Congregational

Independent Baptists

Anglican/Episcopal Anglican/Episcopal

1791 United Methodist

1. Armenian

Quakers 2. Societies

Methodist Methodist 1860 3. Early Christian

1. Spiritual Revival

2. Small group "societies" - Methodists

3. Social Welfare.

4. Remained an Anglican priest, but forbidden a pulpit. Scottish Presbyterian

5. Emphasis on Holy Spirit's Sanctifying work United Presbyterian

Dutch Reformed

French Huguenots

Mennonites

IX Law of Life & Love

XII Entire Sanctification

#4 Human Rights #2 Secret Societies

#17 Christian Citizenship #16 Employer/ Employee

#7 Cival Oaths

#9 Discipline of the Body #10 Misuse of drugs


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Eastern Orthodox

1961 Vatican II Roman Catholic

Lutherans

English PresbyterianAmerican Congregational

Independent Baptist

Calvinian Congregational

Anglican/Episcopal

United Methodist

1878 Salvation Army Salvation Army

Quakers

Reformer

B.T. Roberts FREE METHODIST CHURCH

1. Injustice of Slavery

2. Equality of Women Scottish Presbyterian

3. Lay Participation United Presbyterian

4. Simplicity Dutch Reformed

5. Holy Spirit's Sanctifying wor Huguenots

Mennonites

B.T. Robertskicked out of

the Methodist

Episcopal Church

#13 Entertaiinment #18 Marriage and Family

#14 Pornography # 2 Gambling

#5 The Sanctity of Human Life #19 Homosexual B havior

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