ShawJChurchHistory

  • peter and paul are executed
    65

    peter and paul are executed

    martyrdom of the churchs two greatest apostles forces church leadership into a new era
  • titus destroys jerusalm
    70

    titus destroys jerusalm

    christianity and judaism official broke since christanity fled from jerusalm
  • emperor theodosius
    380

    emperor theodosius

    I made nicene christianity the state church of the roman empire with the edict of thessalonica
  • the council of chalcedon
    461

    the council of chalcedon

    concluded that Jesus was completely and fully God. The council confessed that this total man and this total God was one completely normal person. in other words, Jesus combined two nature human and divine, in one person.
  • gregory the great
    590

    gregory the great

    the first of the Mediveal popes takes on civil power and lays the foundation for the papal state. he also compassions , in 597, Augustine's mission to England, which converts the pagan angles.
  • syond of whitby
    663

    syond of whitby

    decisively aligns the English churches with rome for the next nine centuries
  • battle of tours
    732

    battle of tours

    Frankish generl Charles martel halts the seemingly unstoppable muslims invastion, keeping Europe under christens controls.
  • 1208

    francis of assisi

    renouces wealth in order to preach a simple, passionate gospel, and later founds the Franciscan order.
  • 1215

    Innocent 3

    the fourth lateran councils, which climaxes the rule of the medieval churches most influential pope and defines transubstantiation.
  • dantes  divine comsedy
    1321

    dantes divine comsedy

    masterful poetic exspression to medieval concepts of heaven, hell, and purgatory and shapes later thought.