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The Council of Nicaea took place in this year.
What is 325 CE?
At this ecumenical council, it was decided that the Holy Spirit was divine.
What is the Council of Constantinople?
“…if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved"
Who is Paul?
This Roman emperor was preparing for the Battle of the Melvin Bridge when he saw a vision—perhaps of a "chi rho" symbol—and decided to throw his support behind Christianity and its God.
Who is Constantine?
Mercy Oduyoye founded the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in this year.
What is 1989?
The debate over clerical celibacy, the use of leaven in communion bread, and the inclusion of the "Filioque" clause resulted in this major event affecting both the Eastern and Western churches in the mid-11th century.
What is the Great Schism of 1054?
”And there is still a voice saying to every potential Peter, ‘Put up your sword”
This German pastor, a member of the Confessing Church, spoke out against the oppression of the Jews during World War II.
Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
The Second Vatican Council began in this year.
What is 1962?
This widespread cultural debate, involving a split between more liberal and more conservative Protestants in 20th century America, is exemplified in the Scopes Trial.
What is the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy?
"Then, because my child was nursing and was usually staying with me in the prison, I sent Pomponius the deacon to my father to ask for the infant"
Who is Perpetua?
This pope recruited participants for the First Crusade in the 11th century.
Who is Pope Urban II?
In this year, Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.
What is 1517?
This council involved the Roman Catholic Church's solidifying core doctrines central to its identity, especially in contradistinction to the new Protestant Christian community.
What is the Council of Trent?
"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land."
The Boxer Rebellion, arising out of anger toward colonialists and their missionary compatriots, took place in this country.
What is China?
The Fourth Crusade took place in this year.
What is 1204?
At this council, mentioned in the New Testament, the apostles decided that new Gentile converts to Christianity would not need to be circumcised.
"the poor deserve preference not because they are morally or religiously better than others, but because God is God, in whose eyes ‘the last are first.’"
Who is Gustavo Gutiérrez?
The Peace of Westphalia included a decision that *this group of Christians,* along with Lutherans and Catholics, would be allowed to practice religious freedom, even if Anabaptists, Jews, and Muslims could not.
Who are Calvinists?