10 RE Church History Timeline

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  • 202

    Septimus Severus tries to unite the empire under one religion, the worship of the Unconquered Sun. Both Jews and Christians refuse and are vehemently persecuted

  • 220

    Period of the Apologists ends.

  • 220

    The Third Century

  • 305

    The Third Century Ends

  • 305

    The Imperial Church Begins

  • 431

    Jesus Christ is one person, contrary to Nestorianism, which held that Christ was two persons, one divine and one human

  • 476

    The Imperial Church ends.

  • 476

    The Early Middle ages begins

  • Feb 12, 1000

    The early Middle ages ends

  • Feb 12, 1000

    The High Middle Ages Begins

  • Feb 12, 1079

    Under the Seljuk Turks, the Muslims are more determined than previously to keep the Christians from making pilgrimages to the Holy Land

  • Feb 12, 1212

    The Children's Crusade. The children felt they could take the Holy Land supernaturally because they were pure in heart. Most of them were drowned, murdered, or sold into slavery

  • Feb 12, 1232

    Raymund Lull, first missionary to the Muslims

  • Feb 12, 1299

    The High Middle Ages ends

  • Feb 12, 1300

    The Late middle Ages Begins

  • Feb 12, 1378

    The Great Schism. Pope Gregory XI moves the papacy back to Rome. France declares Clement VII pope in Avignon. There are two competing popes for close to 40 years

  • Feb 12, 1417

    The Council of Constance deposes both popes and elects a new one. This ends the Great Schism. It is a high point for Conciliarism, the idea that the councils are superior to the papacy

  • Feb 12, 1428

    The Catholic Church burned the bones of Wycliffe and threw them in the Swift river

  • Feb 12, 1499

    The Late Middle Ages Ends

  • Feb 12, 1500

    The Reformation Begins

  • Feb 12, 1515

    While teaching on Romans, Luther realizes faith and justification are the work of God

  • Feb 12, 1521

    Luther is excommunicated

  • Feb 12, 1536

    William Tyndale strangled and burned at the stake. He was the first to translate the Bible into English from the original languages. He was burned for heresy by King Henry, whose divorce Tyndale had opposed.

  • Feb 12, 1558

    Elizabeth is crowned, the Marian exiles return

  • Feb 12, 1567

    The Vestments Controversy. Puritans did not want the ceremony and ritual symbolized by the robes of the Church of England

  • The Reformation Ends

  • The Puritans Begins

  • The Puritans meet James at Hampton Court. Their hopes are dashed

  • The Book of Sports is published. It contradicts the Puritan view of the Sabbath, but Puritans are forced to read it

  • William Laud becomes Bishop of London and steps up oppression of the Puritans

  • John Winthrop and many Puritans migrate to America

  • George Fox founds the Religious Society of Friends

  • Conversion of Pascal. He started collecting notes for an Apology for the Christian Religion. It was unfinished, but his notes were published posthumously as Pensees

  • William and Mary take the throne. Puritans are free to preach and establish their own churches

  • The Puritans Ends

  • The Great Awakening Begins

  • The Great Awakening continues as Jonathan Edwards preaches in Massachusettes. Revival spreads to Connecticut

  • Princeton founded by the Presbyterians

  • Particular Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen founded, later called the Baptist Missionary Society

  • The Great Awakening Ends

  • Church Missionary Society founded

  • The 2nd Great Awakening Beginds

  • William Carey's Bengali New Testament published

  • The Oxford Movement, or the Tractarian Movement, attempts to bring the Church of England closer to Catholicism. Tried to popularize the Via Media. Led by John Henry Newman

  • Vatican I, and the declaration of Papal Infallibility when speaking ex cathedra

  • John Henry Newman, who became one of the most influential Roman Catholic thinkers of his time

  • The 2nd Great Awakening Ends

  • The Modern Period Begins

  • Charles Williams, who wrote Christian metaphysical thriller fantasy novels and hung out with

  • Mission to the World of the Presbyterian Church in America

  • The twentieth century had more Christian martyrs than all the other centuries combined. Find out more from The Voice of the Martyrs

  • The Apostlic Period Begins

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  • Ignatius led to Rome and martyred.

  • The Modern Period Ends

  • Ireneaus, the first great Catholic theologian and author of Against Heresies, a treatise against the gnostics

  • The Apostlic Period Ends

  • Period of the Apologists Begins.

  • The reign of Decius. He ordered everyone in the empire to burn incense to him. Those who complied were issued a certificate. Those who did not have a certificate were persecuted. Many Christians bought forged certificates, causing a great controversy in t

  • The beginning of the Diocletian persecution

  • Basil the Great of Cappadocia, the monk who created the basic Rule for the Eastern Orthodox monks that is still in use today. Basil taught communal monasticism that serves the poor, sick, and needy. One immediate effect of the disappearance of persecution

  • Benedict of Nursia, who wrote the normal Rule for Western monks to the present

  • The Council of Orange approves the Augustinian doctrine of sin and grace, but without absolute predestination

  • Boniface, who brought Anglo-Saxon Christianity to the pagans in Germany. He cut down the pagan's sacred tree and built a church out of it

  • Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne head of the Holy Roman Empire (a.k.a. the Nominally Christian Germanic Kingdom). His dynasty is called the Carolingian Empire. His reign is the cultural high point of the Early Middle Ages

  • Conversion of Justin Martyr. Justin loved philosophy, and had studied many philosophies and pagan religions in his search for truth. He was an apologist, and taught that the seeds of truth (logos) could be found in all religions, but that only Christianit