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Major theologian, and first to write in Latin.
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Bishop of Antioch is executed in Rome
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Tertullian writes down a full description of the baptism practises of North Africa. "On Baptism"
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Tertullian becomes a Montanist, which was called the 'New Prophecy' Movement. The would be compared with the pentecostal and Charistmatic movements of today, where people were said to recieve Prophecies and Revelations from God in ways which were contrary to accepted practise of the day, people were said to rave and convulse under the movement of the spirit, being out of control.
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Origen begiuns work on a polyglot version of the Old Testament, taking the original Hebrew, a Hebrew Transliteration and four versions of the greek, and combining them in 6 columns.
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Decius decrees a universal sacrifice to the gods of the empire, anyone who refused was punished, which was mainly Christians.
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This synod met to discuss what should be done about those who backslide due to the Decius Decree, which involved much penances.
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Novantian electes himself the antipope in protest against the penacnes owed for those who have back slide. This causes a great schism, which lasts until the 5th Century.
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Becomes the pope of Caesarea, and writes the first church history
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Gregory the Illuminator becomes a Christian and coverts King Tiridates III of Armenia
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Emperor Diocletian and Caesar Galerius issue 2 edicts. The first ordering the destruction of Scripture, Christian Literature, Church buidlings and property. The Second orders the imprisonment of Christian leaders, many of whom had to sacrifice to other gods before release. The great Persecution ends in 311, when Galerius issues an edict of toleration.
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He forces Maximian to do there same, thereby making Constantius I and Galerius Emperors.
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Constantius dies in battle, and his son takes over as emperor
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Galerius promotes Severus to Emperor in place of Constantius I
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Maxentius pronounces himself emperor in Rome.
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Constantine kills Maximian after he declares himself emperor a second time.
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He attributes this to seeing a vision of the cross, and thus makes Christianity his main religion
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Signed by Licinius and his co-emperor Constantine, which tolerates all religious practises.
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Called to resolve heresy's and schisms.
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Work begun in 326
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Noted biblical scholar who translated bible into Latin
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Augustine, is a major theologian on sin and grace, and his concepts still inform western theology to this day.
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A Latin translation of the bible
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Seen as the third Ecumenical Council, it excommunicated Nestorius, and proclaimed Mary, the 'Birth-giver of God'.
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Held in Chalcedon, it finally defined the nature of Jesus, as truely man and truely divine, in two natures, unconfusing, unchanging, undivisible and inseperable.
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Dionysius Exiguus creates a new calander based around his calculations of easter
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This is the fifth ecumenical council.
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Pope Leo IX and Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius heightened the conflict by suppressing Greek and Latin in their respective domains. In 1054, Roman legates traveled to Cerularius to deny him the title Ecumenical Patriarch and to insist that he recognize the Church of Rome's claim to be the head and mother of the churches. Cerularius refused. The leader of the Latin contingent, Cardinal Humbert, excommunicated Cerularius, while Cerularius in return excommunicated Cardinal Humbert
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Started by Pope Urban II in order to go and support christians in the East and to take back the Holy Land.
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The second crusade fails due to the defeat at Demascus.
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Richard the Lion Heart tried to capture Jeruselum and the Holy Land, however, they were united and undefeatable under Saladine
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Initiated by Pope Innocent III, with the plan of entering through Egypt, however after a series of unfortunate events, the pope excommunicated the soldiers and they went off to destroy constantinople instead.
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Major Church theologian
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Thus marking the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Vatican city, and the location of the election of pope's as well as the hand of God by Michelangelo.
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The Father of the Reformation, Martin Luther was respoinsible for the birth of the prodestant church, because he disagreed with key doctrine and practises of the Roman Catholic Church, and believed that God was calling for justice and reformation from within the Catholic Church.
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Translates the Bible into English
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John Calvin, was a key theoligian in the reformation movement of the church and taught specifically on the doctirne of predestination.
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Martin Luther pins his 95 thesis to the door of Church Castle, Wittenberg, Saxong
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Martin Luther writes his small and large Catechisms as basic instructions in christian faith.
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Luther defends his doctirne before Holy Roman Emperor Carlos V
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John Calvin, after settling in Geneva publuishes the first edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, which is one of the most systematic reform doctrine books to date.
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Under a psydoname this book is a revision of other versions which was licenced for general reading
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Luther issues the articles of Lutheran Doctrine, which are later incorperated into the Book of Concord (1580)
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Bowden, John. with Lydamore, M; Bowden, H
2007 A Chronology of World Christianity, Continuum, London Dowley, T (ed.)
2002 Introduction to The History of Christianity (Rev.), Fortress Press, Minneapolis. Johnson, Paul.
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Under Victor, the Bishop of Rome begins to have more authority over the other bishops.
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Pope Victor I, attempts to solve the dating of Easter, should it be on the 14 Nissan or the following Sunday (the view which is finally adopted)
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Pope Victor I dies to be replaced by Zephyrinus
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Constantius I is made Caesar of West and Galerius is made Caesar in the East.
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Galerius makes Licinius emperor in his place.
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Finally resolves issues of Arianism, and produces the nicene creed. It also declaires that the Bishop of Constantinople should hold the rank after Bishop of Rome.
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This was convined to discuss heresys surrounding the will and nature of Jesus.
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Regarded as the 7th Ecumenical council and the last to be recognised in the east.
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Origen, was a great biblical scholar, writing many commentaries and papers, thereby shaping biblical understanding through the ages.
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Becoming the exclusive instrument of the church, for nearly 6 Centuries
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Whilst ruling the Kingdom of Wessex, he defeats the Danes, and then begins to gather groups of scholars round him in order to translate, Christian literature from Latin into Old English, some of which he did himself
