Outline of church history

TWO HELPFUL OUTLINES

====================================== 1)THE STORY OF THE CHURCH,Copyright © 1997-2005 by Mark S. Ritchie
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The bulk of these pages consist of notes from the Church History classes taught in 1997-1999 at Community Bible Chapel, Richardson, Texas, USA. Appearance of material here does not imply approval by the leadership at Community Bible Chapel, although the material will be substantially similar to what was presented in class.    Useful Church History Links    Part 1 (Early Church History A.D. 50-313) This course was taught in early 1997.  What is Church History; Why Study Church History; Periods; Backgrounds Scriptural Teaching on the Early Church; Geographic Spread; Church vs. Pagan Society; The Persecutions The Apostolic Fathers Practices of the Early Church; Organization of the Early Church Early Heresies and Schisms; Orthodox Responses The 2nd and 3rd Century Church Fathers The Late Persecutions; Summary of Ante-Nicene Church History

 

Part 2 (Early Church History A.D. 313-451) This course was taught in summer 1997.  Constantine and the legalization of Christianity. Imperial meddling in the church. The church's complicity Doctrine of the Trinity, the Arian heresy, and the Council of Nicaea Christological controversies. Council of Chalcedon Augustine and the Pelagian controversy

Part 3 (Early Church History Concluded & Church History In the Middle Ages A.D. 313-1517) This course was taught in March-May 1998.  Overview of the Middle Ages Summary of the Decline of Christian Practice - I Summary of the Decline of Christian Practice - II Summary of the Decline of Christian Practice - III Anselm's Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) Christianization of the Barbarians The Later Middle Ages The Scholastics Mystics and the Early Reformers Medieval art and architecture

Part 4 (The Reformation and Early Protestantism 1517-1750) This course was taught in Oct-Dec 1999. The Reformation: Introduction Martin Luther Ulrich Zwingli The Anabaptists John Calvin The English Reformation The Puritans Other Nations. "Protestant Scholasticism." Overview of the first 150 years of Protestantism

Copyright © 1997-2005 by Mark S. Ritchie. Permission is granted to use materials herein for the building up of the Christian Church. Bibliographic entries for published works quoted may be found in Bibliography page,

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2)From Wikipedia..right-click any item to learn more:

• 1 Early Christianity (c.33–325)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 1.1 Apostolic Church
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 1.1.1 Early Christian beliefs and creeds
    • 1.1.2 Jewish continuity
    • 1.1.3 India
  • 1.2 Post-Apostolic Church
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 1.2.1 Persecutions
    • 1.2.2 Structure and the episcopacy
    • 1.2.3 Early Christian writings
    • 1.2.4 Early art
    • 1.2.5 Early heresies
    • 1.2.6 Biblical canon
• 2 Church of the Roman Empire (313–476)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 2.1 Christian persecutions come to an end
  • 2.2 Christianity legalized and endorsed by Constantine I
  • 2.3 Trinitarian Christianity adopted as the official state religion of Rome
  • 2.4 Dioceses and the Pentarchy
  • 2.5 Papacy and primacy
  • 2.6 Ecumenical Councils
  • 2.7 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
  • 2.8 Monasticism
• 3 Early Middle Ages (476–799)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 3.1 Early Medieval Papacy
  • 3.2 Spread beyond the Roman Empire
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 3.2.1 Irish and Irish missionaries
    • 3.2.2 Anglo-Saxons, English
    • 3.2.3 Franks
    • 3.2.4 Frisians of the Low Countries
  • 3.3 Iconoclasm
• 4 High Middle Ages (800–1299)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 4.1 Carolingian Renaissance
  • 4.2 Monastic Reform
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 4.2.1 Cluny
    • 4.2.2 Cîteaux
    • 4.2.3 Mendicant orders
  • 4.3 Investiture Controversy
  • 4.4 Medieval Inquisition
  • 4.5 Rise of universities
  • 4.6 Conversion of the Scandinavians
  • 4.7 Conversion of East and South Slavs
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 4.7.1 Mission to Great Moravia
    • 4.7.2 Conversion of the Serbs and Bulgarians
    • 4.7.3 Conversion of the Rus'
• 5 Late Middle Ages (1300–1499)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 5.1 Western Schism
• 6 Controversy and Crusades dividing East and West (up to 1400)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 6.1 Growing tensions between East and West
  • 6.2 Photian schism
  • 6.3 East-West Schism
  • 6.4 Crusades
  • 6.5 Hesychast Controversy
• 7 Eastern Orthodox captivity (1400–1850)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 7.1 Fall of Constantinople
  • 7.2 Isolation from the West
  • 7.3 Religious rights under the Ottoman Empire
  • 7.4 Corruption
• 8 Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 8.1 The Church and the Italian Renaissance (1399–1520)
  • 8.2 Protestant Reformation (1521–1610)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 8.2.1 Martin Luther
    • 8.2.2 Ulrich Zwingli
    • 8.2.3 John Calvin
    • 8.2.4 English Reformation
  • 8.3 Counter-Reformation (1545–1610)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 8.3.1 The Council of Trent
    • 8.3.2 Catholic missions
• 9 Church and the Enlightenment (1610–1800)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 9.1 Trial of Galileo
  • 9.2 Puritans in North America
  • 9.3 French Revolution
• 10 Revivalism (1720–1906)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 10.1 Great Awakenings
  • 10.2 Restorationism
• 11 Modern history (1848-present)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 11.1 Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 11.1.1 Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire
    • 11.1.2 Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union
    • 11.1.3 Diaspora emigration to the West
  • 11.2 Modern trends in Christian theology
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 11.2.1 Modernism and liberal Christianity
    • 11.2.2 Fundamentalism
  • 11.3 Fascism
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 11.3.1 Nazism
  • 11.4 Second Vatican Council
  • 11.5 Ecumenism
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • 11.5.1 Catholic ecumenism
    • 11.5.2 Ecumenism within Protestantism
• 12 See also
• 13 Notes
• 14 Further reading
• 15 External links
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