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313
Early Church
Death of Jesus 30
Christian Tradition Begins 30 - 313
Apostolic Age
Oral Tradition
New Testament writings -
410
Imperial Church 313 - 410
Triumph of Constantine
State sanction and promotion of Christianity
Councils
Theological debate over heresies regarding Trinity
Council of Nicaea - 325 - Nicene Creed -
Jan 1, 1054
Early Middle Ages 410 - 1054
Fall of Rome
800 Holy Roman Emperor by Leo III
Theology of suffering, sin, repentance and penance become common
Islam emerges, expands-presents challenges
Schism 1054 - Split between Rome and Constantinople -
Jan 1, 1307
High Middle Ages 1054 - 1307
Papal power at high point with Innocent III
Islamic expansion
Crusades - 1095-1291
Economic, Theological, Educational advancements -
Jan 1, 1483
Martin Luther
Born 11/10/1483 in the town of Eisleben, Germany
Died 1546
Married to Katharina von Bora 1525
Established what came to eventually become the Protestant Tradition Protestant meaning to protest something. -
Jan 1, 1500
Decline & Renewal of Church - 1307-1500
Growing Nationalism fractures Christendom
Hundred Years' War
Black Plague
Peasant Revolts against abuses
Fall of Constantinople to Turks 1453
Development of the Indulgence System - very harmful to the peasantry population.
Corruption and abuses setting the stage for Reformation -
Jan 1, 1509
John Calvin
Born 1509
Predestination
TULIP Total Depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, and irresistible grace
Presbyterian Church -
Oct 31, 1517
95 Thesis
Martin Luther in response to the selling of indulgences - abuse of church. Seeks moral reform in the Roman Church -
Jan 1, 1521
Luther Excommunicated
Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Luther an outlaw. Luther is formally excommunicated by the pope -
Jan 1, 1529
Diet of Speyer
The term Protestantism is first used
Means to Protest -
Jan 1, 1533
Anabaptists
Dutch Priest Menno Simons led movement -- became Mennonites
George Blaurock was baptized by Conrad Grebel, thus the movement became called anabaptists, which means rebaptizers--but in theory Anabaptists didnot believe in rebaptism -- believed in adult baptism. -
Jacob Arminius
Arminianism opposite of Calvinism
Theological concept became important to Wesley -
Puritans
Puritans, including both Presbyterian and Congregationalists, arrive on Mayflower and establish a colony at Plymouth in Massachusetts. -
Quakers
Founder - George Fox (1624-1691)
Inner Light - Spiritualist
Called Friends
William Penn founded 'Religious Society of Friends" in Pennsylvania in 1682 - Quakers -
English Reformation
Henry VIII became head of church
Edward VI son of Henry and Jane Seymour - reign short but made great advances for the cause of the reformers.
Mary Tudor - daugher of Henry and Catherine of Aragon - known as bloody Mary - Mass killing of Protestants
Elizabeth - Daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn - Moderate form of Protestantism restored. New Edition of the Book of Common Prayer -
John Wesley
John Wesley - 1703-1791
Methodism
1737 Wesley brought Methodism to America -
Great Awakening
Spreads thoughout New England and the Bristish Colonies
The beginning of the rise of denominationalism in USA
Began as Intellectual Movement, but became emotional
Rise of Baptists and Methodists -
Unitarianism
First American Unitarian congregation is established at King's Chapel Boston -
Second Great Awakening
Began as intellectual movement
Becomes less intellectual
Becomes more emotional and
Ends Anti-intellectual
Gives rise to Fundamentalistic thought -
Mormons
Joseph Smith establishes the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," - Mormons -
Seventh-Day Adventist Church in America
William Miller (1782-1849) establishes the church in the USA
Based on prophecies concerned with the end of the world based on books of Daniel and Revelation.
Predicted end of the world for 1843 -
Jehovah's Witnesses
Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916)
Established the International Bible Students Association, later known as the Jehovah's Witnesses. -
Church of Christ, Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Believed that people had within them the power of the mind to eliminate sickness and death. She, herself, was healed without medicine.
God is spirit and all good, and humans are reflection of God, and are also spiritual and good. -
Pentecostal Churches
Begin to emerge out of a variety of interdenominational revivalist churches in America -
Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God Church is established leading way for many more nondenomination churches -
Fundamentalism
Early 1900's
A militant reaction to liberal Protestantism and to developments in modern science.
5 Principles of Fundamentalism
inerracy of Bible
Virgin Birth of Jesus
Divinity of Jesus
Atoning death of Jesus
Parousia - Physical Resurrection and second coming of Jesus -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906-1945
Executed for plot to kill Hitler
Lutheran Pastor -
Mega Church
Growth of Mega Churches
Televangelism -
Global Religion
The vitality of Christian in third world countries is vast, but its parallel crisis in the North Atlantic appears event.
A secularism appears to be encroaching.
We have reached an age that is "beyond Christendom," when Christianity no longer has clear centers.
What will Christianity resemble by the end of the 21st century?
