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CHRISTIAN HISTORY. Some key events. eastwards. Day of Pentecost c. 30 Church expands around Mediterranean Sea while experiencing periods of persecution - 30-300 Constantine makes Christianity state religion of Roman Empire - early 300’s.
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CHRISTIAN HISTORY Some key events
eastwards • Day of Pentecost c. 30 • Church expands around Mediterranean Sea while experiencing periods of persecution - 30-300 • Constantine makes Christianity state religion of Roman Empire - early 300’s
Monastic movement as a reaction to worldly trends in Church - early 300’s onwards • Council of Nicea – God is a Trinity - 325 (Reaction to Arianism) • Council of Chalcedon - Jesus is both God and man – 451 • Church expands eastwards as far as China – 400-700
Monastic movement begins in Western Europe and Celtic monks evangelize Northern England and Ireland. (C 5-6) • Pope sends Augustine to England to evangelize Anglo-Saxons, who in turn evangelize Germany, and Netherlands. C 7-9 • Rise of Islam 622 • Iconoclastic controversy between East and West C 8-11 • Eastern and Western Church separate 1054
Russian and other East European regions convert to Eastern Orthodoxy C 9-11 • Crusades to liberate Jerusalem from Muslims 1095 – 1250 – unsuccessful • Ongoing centralization of control in Western (Catholic) Church C 11-13 • Inquisitions to eliminate heresy C 12 onwards • Reform movements to change the Church in Europe suppressed C 12 onwards • Martin Luther begins the Reformation 1517