A Very, Very Brief History of the Pre-Reformation Christian Church, 2016

Ellingsen, Mark

2016

2010-2019

The church grew like wildfire in the 1500 years after Jesus death. It quickly changed from being a small Jewish sect into the religion of Europe. Although Christianity had originally been a movement of Jews, immediately after gaining a Gentile majority of the membership sometime in the 2nd century, it was still a religion with its heaviest concentration in Israel, the Near East, and North Africa. It was not until the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century that Christianity began to be associated with Europe and Western culture. (We must never forget how Jewish, Asian, and African our faith is.) Augustine (354-430): An African Bishop and important theologian of the early church; he is most famous for developing the doctrine of Original Sin and for affirming the priority of grace in Gods Work of saving us. His writings influenced both Luther and John Calvin, as well as the Roman Catholic Church. Episcopal Polity: A way of organizing denominations by having bishops as foremost authorities

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