Early Church - rise and organization of Christianity / development of doctrine / apologetics
Church history is important. Doctrines and heresy have developed over time. So has the myth that starting Christianity all over again will purge it from bureaucracy and corruption and all other pitfalls associated with a world religion run by fallible humans.
- Eucharist - Jesus and the Last Supper / Ignatius of Antioch (ca. 35 or 50-between 98 and 117), one of the Apostolic Fathers,[sup][22][/sup] mentions the Eucharist as "the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ",
- Resurrection - 3 days after Christ's death.
- Paul's Letters - 51 - 58 AD
- Gospels - 60 AD - 90 AD
- Revelation - 90 AD
- Trinity - first mentioned 170 AD
- Theotokos 250 AD
- NT canon - 4th century
- Incarnation of Christ - 451 AD
- Emphasis on Purgatory - Dante
- Devotion to Relics
- Pilgrimages
- Emphasis on Indulgences
- Scholasticism / Universities
- Rise of Monasticism
- Catholic Mysticism
- Solas
- Luther's canon of scripture
- TULIP - 1536
- Church of England
- Anabaptist movement
- Scripture in the vernacular
- King James Bible
- Counter-Reformation / Council of Trent
- Puritans
- Amish Mennonite Movement
- Quakers
- Methodism
- Shakers
- Unitarianism
- Spiritualism
- Mormonism
- Millerites
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Adventism
- Christian Science
- Dispensationalism
- Pentecostalism
- Church of Scientology
- Modernism / atheism
- Fundamentalism
- Science
- Vatican II
- Rise of Assemblies of God Church
- Postmodernism - emergent church movements
Church history is important. Doctrines and heresy have developed over time. So has the myth that starting Christianity all over again will purge it from bureaucracy and corruption and all other pitfalls associated with a world religion run by fallible humans.