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Jesus Movement begins
Jesus executed by Romans
Stephen stoned in Jerusalem
Jerusalem Council
Thessalonians written by Paul (1st book)
Paul writes his last book - Romans & death of Paul
Sacrifices for Roman emperor halted at Temple
Beginning of First Jewish Revolt.
Jerusalem Temple destroyed
Emperor establishes new Sanhedrin in Yavneh
Gospel of Mark written
Establishment of Jewish center for study at Yavneh
End of First Jewish Revolt
Pompeii -- Mt. Vesuvius erupts
The Gospel of Luke and Book of Acts written by same author – Luke.
Yavneh Sanhedrin under Gamaliel II: canonization of the Ketuvim, excludes sectarians
(including Christians) from the synagogues - Yavneh
Unknown author writes book of Matthew
Josephus writes The Jewish War
Writing of John's books.
I Clement written
Epistle of Barnabas written.
Antiochian and Smyrna Christianity
Gnostic Christianity
Docetism (Christianity)
Greatest expanse of Roman Empire
Greatest expanse of Roman Empire
Bar Kocheba Rebellion
Emperor Hadrian renames Jerusalem and outlaws practice of Jewish religion.
Jews must pay taxes to support the Temple of Jupiter.
The Shepherd written by Hermas
Marcion creates first known New Testament in Rome.
Marcionites and the writing of the first New Testament
Justin begins writings in Rome - Jewish scriptures used to prove claims about Jesus.
Soter, Bishop of Rome uses Apostolic Succession to prove Rome's power.
Irenaeus becomes Bishop of Lyon - "Jews disinherited from God's grace."
Irenaeus list 20 different varieties of Catholicism.
Pope Victor orders East to stop using Passover as the official date for Easter.
Tertullian
Theodotus teaches message that Jesus was miraculously born of virgin.
Mishnah
Muratorian Canon
Cyprian, bishop of Carthage - No salvation outside the Church.
Cyprian - To be against the bishops is to be against the Church.
Bishops Origen and Cyprian blame Jews for all the persecutions against Christians
Sabellianism (Christianity)
Armenian Christianity
Mithra, Sun god, proclaimed as Protector of the empire and imperial house.
Tosefta, composed (supplement to the Mishnah)
Manicheism (Christian) (Rome)
Violent persecution of Christians by Emperor Diocletian
Arianism (Christian)
Alexanderism (Christian)
Diocletian declares Mithra the patron-god of the empire.
Donatist (Christian)
Emperor Constantine embraces Christianity, but does not refute belief in Mithra.
Pope Sylvester declares that every Sunday is to be observed joyfully by Christians.
Constantine exempts clergy from paying taxes.
Constantine changes the custom of working seven days and holding the market day every Sunday. Closes courts on Sunday, except for cases having to do with the freeing of slaves.
Council of Nicea
Eusebius of Caesarea
Constantine orders the deaths of his wife, son, and nephew.
Early Midrashim written
Emperor Constantius confiscates property of a Christian who converted to Judaism.
Athanasius' New Testament (1st list of books that is the same as today's NT)
Roman Catholic Church (Christianity becomes the official religion of Roman Empire)
Eunomians were a small Neo-Arian sect thriving in and around Constantinople. They taught that the name "Ungenerated" was the only proper name for God the Father; all other beings were generated, including the Son, who was adopted. This doctrine led to a belief that the Son is not only unequal to, but also unlike, the Father. The Eunomians also taught that the Being of God was wholly comprehensible by logical definition.
Orthodox Church of Cyprus
Melkite Church
Armenian Church
Nestorians, recognizing Christ's two natures, does not believe that Christ had two equal natures and that Mary bore only the human nature of Christ -- she did not bear God
Maronite Church
Muhammad writes Koran
Babylonian Talmud completed
Library of Alexandria with its 300,000 manuscripts completely destroyed.
Masoretic text of Hebrew Bible finalized.
Eastern Orthodox Church
Beginning of Crusades
Beginning of the Inquisition - ends in 1700
Qabalah (Isaac the Blind)
Russian Orthodox Church
Germany - Gutenberg Bible printed (invention of printing press)
Christian expulsion of Jews from Spain
This event marked a significant and tragic moment in Jewish history, leading to the departure of an estimated 175,000 Jews and the near extinction of the Jewish community in Spain.
Columbus discovers America
Lutheran Church (Martin Luther - Germany)
Mennonites (Conrad Grebel)
Anabaptists (Wilheld Teubli)
Anglican Church (King Henry VIII)
Society of Jesus founded - Jesuits
Luther preaches against Jews
Huguenots (John Calvin - France)
Presbyterian Church (John Knox - Scotland)
Birth of Shakespeare
Puritans (T. Cartwright)
Congregationalism (R. Brown)
Church of Russia
Ukrainian Uniate Church
Baptists (John Smyth and Thomas Helwys - Holland)
King James Bible published
Particular Baptists (Henry Jacob - England)
Episcopalians (S. Seabury)
Reformed Church America (New Amsterdam)
Dutch Reformed Church (Michaelis Jones - Netherlands)
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (George Fox)
Arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam (New York)
Old Believers (Reformed Russian Orthodox)
Amish (Jacob Amman - Switzerland)
Hasidism (Ba'al Shem Tov - Ukraine and Poland)
Brethren (Alexander Mack - Germany)
Melkite Church
Moravian Church (Count Nicholas Zinzendorf)
Free Will Baptist Church (Paul Palmer - North Carolina)
Congregationalism (Methodist Church) (John & Charles Wesley - London, England)
Spiritualism (Emanuel Swedenborg)
Beginning of American Revolution - ends 1781
National Baptist Convention (David George, George Lisle, Mr. Palmer)
Shakers (Ann Lee)
Methodist Episcopal Church (John Wesley - Baltimore)
Church of the New Jerusalem (Emanuel Swedenborg - London, England)
French Revolution
North Carolina Christian group formed
Universalists (England)
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (split from the John Street Methodist Episcopal Church in New York)
First Free Christian Church in Vermont formed
Kentucky Christian group formed
African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) (Richard Allen - Philadelphia)
Unitarian Universalists (John Murray, Joseph Priestly, & James Relly)
Brethren (John Darby)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Joseph Smith)
Methodist Protestant Church (formed by a group who withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church)
Primitive Baptists (Black Rock, Maryland - split of the Old School Baptists from the Missionary Baptists)
Stone-Campbell movement (Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone)
Orthodox Church of Greece
New Thought Movement (Phineas Parkhurst "Park" Quimby)
Anglo-Israelism (John Wilson - Ireland)
Millerites 7th Day Adventists (William Miller)
Wesleyan Methodist Church (Orange Scott and Luther Lee)
Thomasites (John Thomas)
7th day Adventists (E.G. White)
Southern Baptists (Augusta, Georgia)
Spirtualism (Kate and Margaret Fox)
Oneida Community (John Humphrey Noyes)
Birth of Sigmund Freud
Christian Reformed Church in America (Gysbert Haan)
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Joseph Smith III)
Free Methodist Church (Benjamin Titus Roberts - New York)
Beginning of American Civil War - ends 1865
Baha'i Faith (Mizra Husayn-Ali - Tehran, Persia)
Seventh-Day Adventists (William Miller, Ellen White, James White, and Joseph Bates)
Moody Bible Institute (Dwight Lyman Moody)
Christadelphians (John Thomas [see 1844])
Reformed Church (The name German was dropped from the title of Synod of the German Reformed Church [see 1793]).
Jehovah's Witnesses (Charles Taze Russell - Allegheny, Pennsylvania)
Vatican I
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Old Roman Catholics Cornelius Jansen
Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Reform) established in USÂ
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Theosophy (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Olcott)
Salvation Army (William and Catherine Booth)
Christian Science (Mary Baker Eddy - Massachusetts)
Serbian Orthodox Church
Knights of Columbus (Michael J. McGivney)
Church of God (Seventh Day) (Several Adventist Believers)
Orthodox Church of Romania
USA - Founding of Conservative Judaism (Solomon Schechter)
Unity School of Christianity (Charles and Mary Caroline Fillmore)
Armenians: Under persecution by the Turks many moved to North America.
Anthroposophical Society (Helena Blavatsky)
Congregational Methodists join North American Congregationalism (1620)
The Way (William Irvine)
Christian and Missionary Alliance (Albert Benjamin Simpson)
Only 20 manuscripts of NT known to exist.
Pentecostals Charles F. Parham, William J. Seymour
Church of God (Cleveland) (Richard G. Spurling)
Anthroposophical Society (Rudolf Steiner)
Churches of Christ
Pope Pius X condemns Modernist movement of Biblical Criticism
Church of the Nazarene (Phineas Bresee - Pilot Point, Texas)
Snake Handlers (George Went Hensley)
World War I - ends 1918
Assemblies of God (Eudorus N. Bell - Hot Springs, Arkansas)
Oneness Pentecostalism - Frank Ewart, G.T.Haywood, and Glenn Cook
Rosicrucian Order (H. Spencer Lewis)
Orthodox Church of Georgia
International Peace Mission Movement (Father Divine - Brooklyn, New York)
Bruderhof (Eberhard Arnold - Germany)
The Local Church (Watchman Nee, born Ni Shutsu)
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (Aimee Semple McPherson)
Orthodox Church of Finland
Orthodox Church of Poland
German Congregationalists join North American Congregationalism [1620]
United Church of Religious Science (Ernest Holmes)
"German" dropped from German Evangelical Synod of North America (see 1872).
Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Josemaria Escriva)
Branch Davidians (Victor Tasho Houteff)
Christian Identity Movement (John Wilson, Edward Hine, and Howard Rand)
"I AM" (Guy Ballard)
Congregational Christian Church (uniting of North American Congregationalism [1620] and Christian Church [1820])
Adolph Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. The German Christian movement was a faction within the Protestant church of Germany, not a separate sect.
Worldwide Church of God (Herbert W. Armstrong)
Self realization Fellowship - Paramahansa Yogananda
Orthodox Church of Albania
Moral Re-Armament ( Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman)
Saturday, May 6 at noon a group of Protestant theologians, pastors, and churchgoers gathered at the historic Wartburg Castle, to celebrate the official opening of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life. The German Christian Movement was a well-funded, thriving achievement – a membership of 600,000 pastors, bishops. Professors of theology, religious teachers, and laity. The movement’s goal was to create a unified, national German church transcending Protestant and Catholic divisions.
World War II - ends 1945
The Way International (Victor Paul Weirwille)
Silva Mind control – Jose Silva
United Pentecostal Church International (merger Pentecostal Church (PCI) and Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ)
Nag Hammadi Library discovered
Branhamism (William Marion Branham)
First Dead Sea Scrolls discovered
Latter Rain (George Hawtin, and P.G. Hunt)
Urantia Brotherhood (William S. Sadler)
Campus Crusade for Christ (William Rohl ["Bill"] Bright [UCLA])
Willow Creek Community Church (Bill Hybels)
Unification Church (Sun Myung Moon - Pusan, South Korea)
Church of Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard)
Peoples Temple Christian Church (James [Jim] Warren Jones)
Orthodox Church of China
United Church of Christ (The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches united)
Church Universal and Triumphant (Mark Prophet)
Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research- Henry Kinley
Unitariarian Universalist
Enkankar- Paul Twitchell
Universal Life Church (Kirby J. Hensley)
Process Church of the Final Judgement (Robert de Grimston and Mary Anne Maclean)
Calvary Chapel (Chuck Smith - California)
Vatican II
International Society for Krishna Consciousness/Hare Krishna (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada)
Children of God (David Brandt Berg - California)
Holy Order of MANS (Earl Wilbur Blighton - San Francisco, California)
United Methodist Church (unification of The Methodist Church and The Evangelical United Brethren Church)
Holy Orthodox Church of Japan
Orthodox Church in America
Jesus People USA (John Herrin Sr.)
Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (Roger Delano Hinkins)
Church in Island Pond (Elbert Eugene Spriggs)
Jesus Fellowship Church (Noel Stanton)
Christian Reconstructionism (Cornelius Van Til - Netherlands)
Vineyard Churches (Kenn & Joanie Gulliksen and John Wimber)
International Churches of Christ (Kip McKean - Boston)
Nation of Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell, Jr.)
Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (Daniel Juster)
Secular Humanism (Paul Kurtz)
Suma Ching Hai International Association (Suma Ching Hai)
Order of the Solar Temple (Luc Jouret and Joseph Di Mambro)
Concerned Christians (Monte Kim Miller)
Christian Coalition (Pat Robertson - Virginia)
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (Credonia Mwerinde and Joseph Kibwetere)
Philadelphia Church of God (Gerald Flurry and John Amos)
Promise Keepers (Bill McCartney and Dave Wardell)
Zarathushtrian Assembly
Ukrainian Orthodox Churches
Orthodox Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia
Toronto Blessing (Rodney Howard-Browne)
Scientific Pantheism (Paul Harrison)
