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
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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