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70 AD- It pushed the church outward, continued its seperation from Jerasalem. Left the Church in a state of needing to establish its foundation. Establish Creed (authoritative books of scripture,) leadership (bishops), creeds (basics of belief.)
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325 AD- 1st worldwide gathering of the church, called to make the final decision on Jesus' divinity. Councils Decision; Christ was true God from true God, Christ was consubstantial (of one substance) with the Father, Christ was begotten, not made. Christ became hhuman for us humans for our salvation.
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451 AD- Council is called together to discuss the nature of Christ. This was a meeting where the Church decided on how Jesus' two natures work together. The Couoncil of Nicea identified the identities of Christ and the Council of Chalcedon actually explained how these identities work.
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530 AD- This book was written in 530 AD to describe 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 monosticism was the driving force of the Christian faith for a very long time.
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1054 AD-This was the splitting of the Church into an East and West. The East became Greek and the West beceame Roman Orthodox. This then developed into the Roman Catholic Church. This permanently divided the Church.
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1521 AD- MArtin Luther would not recant on his writings in front of the emperor and others gathered at Worms. The splitting of the church and religious war. Leads to the protestant reformation and catholic counter reformation
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1738 AD- The Wesleys and their colleagues "renewed doctrines of God's grace that had grown stale in the church and applied these doctrines to the working class." The gospel is taken from the "church" and into the "world." It helped reform society by focusing on world issues like education and starting campaigns against slavery and excessive drinking.
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1910 AD- A conference of missionaries called together at the UNited Free Church in Scotland in the shadow of Edinburgh castle. This marked the exspansion 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 began to take on different forms in different cultures.
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800 AD- 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. This action symbolized the synthesis of the sacred and secular sphere of life The Seven Sacraments.
