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Church History. Ca. 30AD. 590 AD. 1517 AD. Ancient Church History . Medieval Church History. Modern Church History. Reformation & Counter Reformation. Apostolic Church. The First Medieval Pope. Apostolic Fathers. The Rise of the Holy Roman Empire. Rationalism, Revivalism,
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Church History Ca. 30AD 590 AD 1517 AD Ancient Church History Medieval ChurchHistory Modern Church History Reformation & Counter Reformation Apostolic Church The First Medieval Pope Apostolic Fathers The Rise of the Holy Roman Empire Rationalism, Revivalism, & Denominationalism The Crusades Church Councils Revivalism, Missions, & Modernism Golden Age of Church Fathers The Papacy in Decline The Pre-Reformers ? FIRST 500 SECOND 500 THIRD 500
OSTRIGOTHS VISIGOTHS VANDELS
GREAT THEOLOGICAL DEBATES OF 4TH & 5TH CENTURIES DOCETISM dokeo “ to seem” SABALLIANISM God is one person who acts differently Modalism / Monarchianism ARIUS Jesus is similar to the Father but not at the same level TRINITARIAN DEBATE Council of Nicea 325 homoousios same substance as the Father
381 Council of Constantinople If Jesus is a real person, and if He really is God, then how do the manhood and deity unite in the one person of Jesus of Nazareth? CHRISTOLOGICAL DEBATE Apollinaris of Laodicea …two perfect entities…perfect deity & perfect humanity…they cannot combine… “what was not assumed was not healed” Gregory of Nazianzus Council of Constantinople answered this heresy but it did not answer the question how
Alexandria spiritual interpretation Antioch literal interpretation
NESTORIUS Bishop of Constantinople theotokos “bearer of God” anthropostokus “bearer of man” christostokos “bearer of Christ” CYRIL Bishop of Alexandria Council of Ephesus 431
EUTYCHES Eutichianism “before the union of the two natures, I recognize two natures, but in the incarnation, after the union, there is only one nature” “the flesh of the Lord is not like ours” Church council at Ephesus, 449 Pope Leo I “Tome” Christology of Eutychianism is Christology of Monophsites advocates one nature
COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON 451 “Christ was one person in two perfect natures” “without confusion or conversion” “hypostatic union” “without division or separation”