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Church History: An Overview

Remember: History is his story!
-Mark Soto

• Overview
• 100ad-313ad: The Suffering Church
• 314ad-590ad: The Syncretistic Church
• 590ad-1300ad: The Secular Church
• 1300ad-1517: The Scholastic Church
• 1517-1800: The Reformation Church
• 1800-1980: The Rational Church
• 1980-present: The Emerging Church
• The Suffering Church (100ad-313ad)
• Struggles from within
• Jewish Problems
• Ebionites
• the law of Moses was binding on Christians
• denied the divine nature of Christ
• adoptionism (spirit came on Jesus @ baptism)
• Jewish Gnostics
• Matter is evil
• Spirit is good
• God Cannot come into contact with matter
• Jesus only appeared to be man
• Struggles with Paganism
• Mystery Religions
• Cult of Isis
• Emphasis on Death & Resurrection
• Cult of Mithras (1500 BC)
• Savior-god born December 25th
• Virgin born, witnessed by shepherds
• cleansed by the blood of a bull
• out of darkness into newness of life
• redeemed by the blood
• Struggles with Rome
• Localized persecutions
• Nero - 64AD
• Trajan - 98-117AD
• Given opportunity to recant
• After 3x, executed
• Christians were not to be sought
• Marcus Aurelius - 161-180AD
• Confessions under torture
• Espionage
• Encouraged mobs to attack Christians
• Decius - 249-251AD
• Empire-wide Persecutions
• 248 was the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Rome
• Traditionalism was revived
• Valerian - 253-260AD
• Diocletian - 285-305AD
• Edict to destroy all Christian Buildings
• Edict to torture Bishops, Elders, and non-recanting Christians
• All copies of the Scripture were to be destroyed
• Councils of the Early Church
• Nicea - 325ad
• Arianism
• Docetism
• Ebionism
• Constantinople - 381ad
• Arianism
• Apollinarianism
• co-equal, co-substantial, co-eternal
• Ephesus - 431ad
• Chalcedon - 451ad
• Jesus had two natures unmixed, unchanged, unconfused

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• Change in the Schedule
  • Exam for March 16th is moved to March 23rd
  • Paper due on March 23rd, moved to March 16th
• 4th Lateran Council
• Affirmed the 7 sacraments
• Baptism
• Communion / Eucharist
• Penance / Confession>
• Matrimony / Holy Orders
• Confirmation
• Extreme Unction / Last Rites
• Affirmed the Pope as Vicar of Christ
• Affirmed Transubstantiation
• Transubstantiation - Roman Catholic
• Con-substantiation - Luther
• In, with, through
• [Prego version]
• Mystical View - Calvin
• Memorial View - Zwingli
• A remembrance of christ
• The Scholastic Church 1300-1517
• Scholasticism
• Invested time into learning and debating
• Form over function
• Doing it the right way, correct rituals
• Corruption
• Financial
• Moral
• Political
• Beginnings of reformation
• John Hus defied the church,everyone in Prague suffered.
• All churches closed, everything was cutoff from the church
• the Great Western Schism 1300’s
• multiple popes claiming to be the real pope
• emperor called the council
• hus was summoned, secretly arrested
• Hus wanted to spread the word of the lord in the common language.
• Confined for months in prison
• Taken to the council, shunned by the church, sentenced to burn
• Passed up every opportunity to recant
• The Reformation Church 1517-1800
• The Reforemrs
• Martin Luther
• Ulrich Zwingli
• John Calfin
• John wesley
• Anabaptist Distinctives
• Baptism for Believers only
• Church Discipline (the ban)
• Lords Supper for Believers Only
• Separation from the World
• Office of Pastor
• Relationship……
• Pietistic Distinctive
• bible Study in Small Groups
• Met with Pastor to discuss sermon
• Practiced the priesthood of believes
• Christianity is to be lived out
• Conduct of believers in Conflict
• Training of Minsters should address life
• Preaching that touches both Faith adn Practice

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• The reformation Church 1517-1800
• The Reformers
• Martin Luther
• Ulrich Zwingli
• John Calvin
• John wesley
• Jonathan Edwards
• To the extent that I accept what the world has to offer, I reject the authority that Christ has in my life.
• The Rational Church 1800-1980
• Pre Modern Church 1800-1925
• Scientific Era Really Flourishes
• Scientific Method, model
• Everything needs to be explained
• The Industrial Revolution
• Pragmatic, utilitarian American
• What is the outcome?
• WW1
• The Modern Church 1925 - 1980
• The Scopes Trial / Social Gospel
• Scopes = Evolution
• Scopes convicted, not allowed to teach evolution
• Split the country into two groups
• Fundamentalists = embraced books, “the fundamentals of the faith.”
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• Inspiration of scripture, virgin birth, deity of christ, substitute atonement, physical resurrection and return
• WWII / Post WWII (60s and 70s) - Baby Boomers - Baby Busters