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IV HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

IV HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY . THE ROMANO-CHRISTIAN EMPIRE, A.D. 300-500 ‘UPON THIS ROCK I WILL FOUND MY CHURCH’. CHRISTIANITY MADE LEGAL AND EMPIRE CHRISTIANIZED BIBLE STABILIZED (MADE CANONICAL) CHURCH CONTROVERSIES: ARIANISM, PELAGIANISM, PRIMACY OF ROME.

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IV HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

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  1. IV HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY THE ROMANO-CHRISTIAN EMPIRE, A.D. 300-500 ‘UPON THIS ROCK I WILL FOUND MY CHURCH’

  2. CHRISTIANITY MADE LEGAL AND EMPIRE CHRISTIANIZED BIBLE STABILIZED (MADE CANONICAL) CHURCH CONTROVERSIES: ARIANISM, PELAGIANISM, PRIMACY OF ROME

  3. I. CHRISTIANITY LEGALIZED

  4. I. LEGALIZATION MARTYRDOM WORKED AGAINST THE EMPIRE: ‘THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS IS THE SEED OF CHRISTIANS’ CITIZENS WERE IMPRESSED BY THE GOODNESS AND COURAGE OF THOSE WHO DIED. BY A.D. 300 AS MUCH AS 10% OR 20% WERE CHRISTIAN

  5. EMPEROR CONSTANTINE, A.D. 272-337 HIS MOTHER HELENA A CHRISTIAN SLAVE

  6. BYZANTINE IMAGES OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD IN IMPERIAL TOGAS MIRROR HELEN AND CONSTANTINE

  7. AREZZO, PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

  8. HISDREAM

  9. HELENA AND THE TRUE CROSS

  10. EDICT OF TOLERATIONJUNE, A.D. 313

  11. II. CHRISTIANIZATION OF EMPIRE

  12. ‘FROM LAMBS TO LIONS’FOURTH-CENTURY CHRISTIANS

  13. THE END OF ROMAN PAGANISMEDICT OF TOLERATION A.D. 313EMPIRE DECLARED CHRISTIAN A.D. 391OLYMPIC GAMES BANNED A.D. 393

  14. II. CHRISTIANIZATION OF EMPIRE TORTURE AND INFANTICIDE BECOME LESS COMMON BIBLE BECOMES SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE SEX AND MARRIAGE BECOME STRICTER

  15. III. CANON OF THE BIBLEDETERMINED IN CONSTANTINOPLE AND ELSEWHERE IMPERIAL BIBLES COULD BE WRITTEN WITH GOLD LETTERS ON PURPLE VELLUM, AS HERE

  16. III. CHRISTIAN BIBLE • BY A.D. 300 THE NEW TESTAMENT EXISTED MORE OR LESS AS WE KNOW IT • CHURCH COUNCILS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY CANONIZED/ AUTHORIZED THIS NEW TESTAMENT • IN WHAT LANGUAGES WERE THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS WRITTEN?

  17. III. BIBLE TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE START TO APPEAR. ORIGEN’S HEXAPLA (SIX-FOLD) HEBREW SCRIPTURES IN SIX GREEK VERSIONS, A.D. 184-253 WULFILA, AN ARIAN CHRISTIAN SLAVE OF THE GOTHS, TRANSLATES IT INTO GOTHIC TO CONVERT THEM, A.D. 310-383 BIBLE IS ALSO, EARLY ON, TRANSLATED INTO ARMENIAN, SYRIAN, COPTIC, ETHIOPIC, GEORGIAN, ETC. JEROME, PAULA AND EUSTOCHIUM RE-TRANSLATE THE LATINUS VETUS, AGAIN, INTO LATIN, AS THE VULGATE, A.D. 347-420 LATER, IRISH SCHOLARS WILL CORRECT JEROME’S VULGATE BIBLE AGAINST THE HEBREW AND GREEK ORIGINAL TEXTS.

  18. IV. CHURCH CONTROVERSIES

  19. IV. CONTROVERSIES WITH NO EXTERNAL ENEMIES (ROMAN STATE, PAGAN PHILOSOPHERS, ETC), CHRISTIANS TRAGICALLY BEGAN TO QUARREL AMONG THEMSELVES. COUNCIL OF NICEA, A.D. 325, RESULTED IN CONFLICTS A. ARIANISM B. PELAGIANISM C. NESTORIANISM D. PRIMACY OF ROME

  20. A. ARIANISM IS JESUS A MAN, OR GOD? ARIANS (ARIUS, A.D. 256-336) TAUGHT THAT JESUS IS A DIVINE BEING BUT NOT GOD AS HE IS CREATED BY AND THEREFORE INFERIOR TO THE FATHER. TRINITARIANS (ATHANASIUS, BISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA, A.D. 296-373) TAUGHT THAT JESUS WAS NOT CREATED BY THE FATHER, BUT EXISTS FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME. HE IS GOD AS MUCH AS IS HIS FATHER

  21. B. PELAGIANISM ARE PEOPLE SAVED BECAUSE OF THE MERCY OF JESUS OR BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIONS? PELAGIUS (A.D. 354-420), SAID ACTIONS AUGUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO (A.D. 396-430), SAID MERCY

  22. PELAGIUS SAYS WE ARE INHERENTLY GOOD AUGUSTINE SAYS EVIL IS THE TENDING TO NON-BEING AUGUSTINE COUNTERS PELAGIUS WITH THE DOCTRINE OF ‘ORIGINAL SIN’

  23. C. NESTORIANISM • NESTORIUS (A.D. 386-451), OF THE ANTIOCH SCHOOL WHICH INTERPRETED BIBLE LITERALLY, BRIEFLY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE, TAUGHT THAT JESUS’ TWO NATURES, HUMAN AND DIVINE WERE SEPARATE, DID NOT ACCEPT MARY AS ‘THEOTOKOS’ (GOD-BEARER). CONDEMNED AS HERETIC AT 431 COUNCIL OF EPHESUS. NESTORIANS BROKE WITH ORTHODOX AND CATHOLIC CHURCH, SPREAD IN THE EAST, INCLUDING CHINA, A.D. 635.

  24. D.THE PRIMACY OF ROME THE STRUCTURE OF EARLY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES WHAT DOES BISHOP MEAN? (bishop means ‘overseer’)

  25. PRIMACY OF ROME IN FIRST THREE CENTURIES JESUS SAYS PETER IS THE ROCK UPON WHICH CHRIST WILL BUILD HIS CHURCH. PETER’S SUCCESSORS AS BISHOPS OF ROME CAME TO HOLD THEMSELVES HEADS OF THE CHURCH. ROME’S RIVAL IS CONSTANTINOPLE, CONSECRATED BY CONSTANTINE, A.D. 330.

  26. MANY ROMAN CATACOMBS SHOW PETER AND PAUL ON EACH SIDE OF CHRIST BECAUSE THEY BECAME LOCAL SAINTS, TRAVELING TO THEIR MARTYRDOMS IN ROME.

  27. PRIMACY OF ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE IN FOURTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES CANON 28 OF THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON, A.D. 451 ROME IS TO REMAIN THE CAPITAL OF CHRISTIANITY, BUT TOGETHER WITH CONSTANTINOPLE. 1054 ‘DONATION OF CONSTANTINE’ GAVE ROME PRIMACY, EXPOSED AS 9TH CENTURY FORGERY IN RENAISSANCE

  28. DATES TO REMEMBER COUNCIL OF JERUSALEM, A.D. 49 EDICT OF TOLERANCE A.D 313 COUNCIL OF NICAEA A.D. 325 COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON A.D. 451

  29. FORGERIES TO REMEMBER • A. 1054, ‘DONATION OF CONSTANTINE’, ROME’S ‘PRIMACY OF PETER’. CAUSES SCHISM BETWEEN ORTHODOXY AND CATHOLICISM • B. PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE, LATE 5TH-EARLY 6TH CENTURIES, WRITING ON HIERARCHIES, INVENTING WORD, PRETENDS TO BE EYEWITNESS TO CRUCIFIXION AND HEARING ST PAUL PREACH ON AREOPAGUS. QUOTED BY AQUINAS 1700 TIMES

  30. SAN MINIATO San Miniato

  31. ARMENIAN CHRISTIAN SLAVEAND SOLDIER,SAINT MINIAS/MENAS, THIRD CENTURYAFTER CHRIST.SAN MINIATO,11-12TH CENTURY,ROMANESQUE,WOOL GUILD ICON, BETHLEHEM

  32. ARMENIAN SAINT MINIAS, HIS RELICS

  33. THE ZODIAC

  34. AND THE VIEW

  35. From above…

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