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martyrdom of the churchs two greatest apostles forces church leadership into a new era
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christianity and judaism official broke since christanity fled from jerusalm
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I made nicene christianity the state church of the roman empire with the edict of thessalonica
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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.
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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.
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decisively aligns the English churches with rome for the next nine centuries
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Frankish generl Charles martel halts the seemingly unstoppable muslims invastion, keeping Europe under christens controls.
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renouces wealth in order to preach a simple, passionate gospel, and later founds the Franciscan order.
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the fourth lateran councils, which climaxes the rule of the medieval churches most influential pope and defines transubstantiation.
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masterful poetic exspression to medieval concepts of heaven, hell, and purgatory and shapes later thought.