HISTORY OF < christianity

1. HISTORY OF< christianity

2. 1-100 AD 100-325 AD 325-800 AD 800-1300 AD Apostolic Post Apostolic / Ante-Nicene Union with Roman Empire Medieval Christianity Early Christianity

3. Who was the last apostle todie and when?

5. Great Fire of Rome64 AD

6. Persecutions Persecution of Christians

9. ΙΧΘΥΣ

10. Great Persecution303-311 AD

11. What does BC and AD mean? BC Before Christ AD Anno Domini In the year of the Lord

12. Constantine the Great

14. Early Church • Emergence of leadership structure • Episkopos, presbyters, deacons • Heresies and apologists • Gnostics, Ebionites, Nazarenes • Iconography • Monasticism • Desert hermit-monks The Good Shepherd 3rd century

15. Gnosticism

16. Western Church Eastern Church

17. Apostles’ Creed I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

18. Nicene Creed We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; he was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered, and was buried, and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; from thence he shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spake by the prophets. In one holy catholic and apostolic Church; we acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

19. First Seven Ecumenical Councils Jesus has two wills Nicene Creed Date of Easter Mary is Mother of God 325 AD Nicaea (1st) 431 AD Ephesus 680 ADConstantinople (3rd) 451 AD Chalcedon 787 ADNicaea (2nd) Jesus has two natures Venerated holy images 381 AD Constantinople (1st) 553 AD Constantinople (2nd) Add Holy Spirit to Nicene Creed Address heresies

20. Nicene Creed HERETICS Punching them won’t stop people believing their lies, but it feels so good

21. Western Church Eastern Church

22. St Augustine of Hippo • Salvation through grace • Original sin • Baptisms are conferred by Christ (not priest) • Baptism necessary for salvation • Children are tainted by original sin and thus baptism is allowable, and necessary • Damnation of unbaptised infants • Predestination • Just war theory

23. Western Church Eastern Church

24. Denominations Catholic Church of the East Eastern Orthodox Oriental Orthodox Protestant Restorationism

25. Denominations

26. Great Schism • Disputes with: • Filioque in Nicene Creed • Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father (and the Son) • Papal supremacy • Original sin • Immaculate conception • Purgatory • Excommunications withdrawn in 1995

27. Oriental Orthodox

28. Eastern Orthodox

29. Protestantism

30. Restorationism

31. St. Thomas Christians 35k 1.1M 50k 1.2M 2M 0.5M 3.8M

32. Western Church Eastern Church

33. St. Thomas Christians 35k 1.1M 50k 1.2M 2M 0.5M 3.8M