[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This study on Church History includes the most significant people and events in the history of the church, beginning with the events after those mentioned in the book of Acts. Thus it includes the great Church Councils at Nicea and Chalcedon, and important movements is church history, such as the Reformation, the Great Awakening and Pentecostalism It continues through to the present with term such as Glasnost and First Amendment Rights which figure in church history as we see it unfolding in the news each day.
Further, many of the people who have played key roles in church history, including Augustine of Hippo, John Wycliffe. Martin Luther, Ignatius of Loyola, Richard Allen, Pope John XXIII and Billy Graham. Other such as Michelangelo and Johann Sebastian Bach, who are best deist known as artists and musicians, are listed in the chapter “The Bible and Christianity in Fine Arts”
Also included are denominational movements such as Methodism and the Anabaptist Movement, and the largest American Denominations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][ultimate_info_table design_style=”design02″ color_scheme=”yellow” package_heading=”Most Important Events in Church History” package_sub_heading=”YEAR EVENT” css_info_tables=”.vc_custom_1501602905269{padding-right: 10px !important;}”]
70 Destruction of JERUSALEM by Titus |
313 Edict of MILAN |
325 Council of NICEA |
367 New Testament canon in its present form is recognised |
386 AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO converted |
406 Jerome completes translation of the VULGATE |
451 Council of CHALCEDON |
540 BENEDICT establishers the monastic Rule |
988 Christianisation of Russia |
1054 THE GREAT SCHISM (THE EAST-WEST SPLIT) |
1095 CRUSADES launched by pope Urban II |
1272 Thomas AQUINAS completes SUMMA THEOLOGICA |
1378 THE PAPAL SCHISM |
1455 GUTENBERG BIBLE printed |
1517 LUTHER POSTS NINETY-FIVE THESES |
1525 ANABAPTIST MOVEMENT begins |
1534 KING HENRY VIII and the Act of Supremacy |
1535 CALVIN’S INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION published |
1545 Council of Trent begins |
1611 KING JAMES VERSION of the Bible is published |
1735 Great Awakening begins |
1738 John and Charles WESLEY converted |
1792 William CAREY helps form Baptist Missionary Society |
1906 Azusa Street Revival propel PENTECOSTALISM for ward |
1962 VATICAN II opens |
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