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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

Who was the last apostle to die and when?

Judas Iscariot

31 AD

Hung himself

James, Son of Zebedee

44-45 AD

Beheaded by Herod Agrippa I

Philip

54 AD

Crucified

Matthew

60-70 AD

Beheaded in Ethiopia

James, Son of Alpheus

63 AD

Stoned / Clubbed

Peter

64-68 AD

Inverted crucifixion

Paul

67 AD

Beheaded

Andrew

70 AD

Crucified

Bartholomew

70 AD

Flayed / Crucified

Thomas

70 AD

Speared

Matthias

70 AD

Stoned /Crucified

Jude

72 AD

Beaten with sticks

Simon

74 AD

Crucified

John

95 AD

Old age

Great Fire of Rome 64 AD

Persecution of Persecutions Christians

ΙΧΘΥΣ Ιησους Χριστóς Θεοῦ Υἱός Σωτήρ

Iesous Xristos Theou Yios Sotare

Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Saviour

ἰχθύς

ichthys

fish

Great Persecution 303-311 AD

What does BC and AD mean?

BC AD

Before Christ

Anno Domini In the year of the Lord

Constantine the Great

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

Gnosticism

Ambrose

Jerome

Augustine

Gregory the Great

Western Church Eastern Church

Basil

Athanasius

Gregory of Nazianzus

John Chrysostom

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.

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.

First Seven Ecumenical Councils Nicene Creed Date of Easter

Mary is Mother of God

Jesus has two wills

325 AD Nicaea (1st)

431 AD Ephesus

680 AD Constantinople (3rd)

451 AD Chalcedon

787 AD Nicaea (2nd)

Jesus has 381 AD two natures

Venerated holy images

Constantinople (1st) Add Holy Spirit to Nicene Creed

553 AD Constantinople (2nd) Address heresies

Nicene Creed

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

Ambrose

Jerome

Augustine

Gregory the Great

Western Church Eastern Church

Basil

Athanasius

Gregory of Nazianzus

John Chrysostom

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 • • • • •

Ambrose

Jerome

Augustine

Gregory the Great

Western Church Eastern Church

Basil

Athanasius

Gregory of Nazianzus

John Chrysostom

Denominations Catholic Church of the East

Eastern Orthodox Oriental Orthodox Protestant

Restorationism

Denominations Catholic

1.2 billion

Protestant

600-800 million

Eastern Orthodox

280 million

Oriental Orthodox

82 million

Restorationism

49 million

Church of the East

0.6 million

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

Oriental Orthodox Ethiopian Orthodox

48 million

Coptic Orthodox

15.5 million

Armenian Apostolic

9.5 million

Ertrean Orthodox

2.5 million

Malankara Orthodox

2 million

Syriac Orthodox

1 million

Jacobite Syrian Christian 1.2 million

Eastern Orthodox Russian

125 million

Romanian

23 million

Greek

18.6 million

Ukrainian

13.7 million

Serbian

11.5 million

Bulgarian

10 million

Georgian

5 million

Protestantism Pentecostal

130 million

Baptist

100 million

Anglican

85 million

Nondenominational

80 million

Lutheran

75 million

Methodist

75 million

Reformed

75 million

African

40 million

Seventh-day Adventist

17 million

Restorationism Latter Day Saints

15.1 million

Iglesia ni Cristo

10 million

New Apostolic Church

10 million

Jehovah’s Witnesses

7.7 million

Church of Christ, Scientist 0.4 million Friends of Man

0.07 million

Christadelphians

0.06 million

St. Thomas Christians 35k 1.1M

50k 1.2M 2M 0.5M 3.8M

Ambrose

Jerome

Augustine

Gregory the Great

Western Church Eastern Church

Basil

Athanasius

Gregory of Nazianzus

John Chrysostom

St. Thomas Christians 35k 1.1M

50k 1.2M 2M 0.5M 3.8M