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The book included the deuterocanonical books and was marked by his criticisms of church abuses, anti-catholic views of the sacraments (Penance and Eucharist), the use of relics, and clerical celibacy. These views ultimately led to his excommunication by the church, and in 1428, long after his death, his remains were exhumed and burned as a heretic.
Since the chart combines secular history with biblical genealogy, it worked back from the time of Christ to peg their start at 4,004 B.C. Above the image of Adam and Eve are the words, "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" (Genesis 1:1) — beside which the author acknowledges that — "Moses assigns no date to this Creation.
First century Christians put these writings in a codex, the ancestor of modern books, and the Egyptian church likely invented the papyrus codex during the next decades. [40] At the Council of Jerusalem, (c. 49), the Jerusalem church gathered to address the question of whether or not the increasing numbers of non-Jews needed to follow Jewish law ...
The American church history series, consisting of a series of denominational histories published under the auspices of the American Society of Church History; Author Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
411 – Kingdom of Burgundy (Nicene Church) c. 420 – Najran (Nicene Church) 448 – Suebi (Nicene Church) [6] c. 450 – Burgundy goes from Nicene to Arian [7] 451 – Aksum and Najran are Coptic with Chalcedonian Schism. 466 – Suebi go from Chalcedonian to Arian; 473 – Ghassanids (Chalcedonian Church) 480 – Lazica (Chalcedonian Church)
The History of the Catholic Church, From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium James Hitchcock, Ph.D. Ignatius Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1-58617-664-8; Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church. Crocker, H.W. Bokenkotter, Thomas. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. Revised and expanded ed. New York: Image Books Doubleday, 2005.
Church history or ecclesiastical history as an academic discipline studies the history of Christianity and the way the Christian Church has developed since its inception. Henry Melvill Gwatkin defined church history as "the spiritual side of the history of civilized people ever since our Master's coming". [ 1 ]
Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church – As the oldest branch of Christianity, along with Eastern Orthodoxy, the history of the Catholic Church plays an integral part of the History of Christianity as a whole. This article covers a period of just under 2,000 years.