EP01: A "Western" religion born in the Middle East: Jerusalem
Nicene Creed: JC is one substance of Father - Divine, also one man - Human
Nestorianism is a Christological doctrine that emphasizes a distinction between the human and divine natures of the divine person, Jesus. (Analogy of oil and water), Nestorius
Coptic churches in Egypt
The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. It is considered by some Muslims to be the fourth-holiest place in Islam.
EP02: Catholicism - Rise of Rome
Asia Minor: Turkey and Greece
St. Peter's Basilica - Rome (Lay emphasis on St. Peter instead of St. Paul)
Purgatory: a place for purging, indulgence decreases time in purgatory (could be bought like the lottery today)
The time that Catholicism ruled the Britain exceeded the time that the Protestant has dominated it.
Charlemagne
Crusade brought back
EP03: Orthodoxy
The Great Schism - Eastern Orthodox Christianity & Western Catholic Christianity
Iconoclasm - Islam: no depiction on the god
Cyril and Methodius: two brothers from Byzantine Christianity for missionary purpose to Slavs
1054 - Separate of East and West (Split between the Pope and the Patriarch in Hagia Sophia)
1204 - 4th Crusade - raped Constantinople, point of no return, Byzantine spirit broken
Ottoman Turkey: 1453 AD. Hagia Sophia had become a mosque
St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square (went against Ivan the Terrible)
Peter the Great grabbed the power of controlling the churches
EP04: Reformation
1517 - Martin Luther posted his questions on Catholic indulgencies in Wittenberg, made Bible approachable for normal German people by uniting the language. Emphasis on the Bible not the Church.
Radicals: Swiss Anabaptist baptized adults without a clergy present
Reformed: Jean Calvin: persecution forced him to flee to Switzerland - The Protestant Rome Geneva. Printing made it easier for the spread of Calvin's Institutes
In 1534, Henry VIII made himself head of the Church of England after the Pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
English Anglican: swing between Catholicism and Protestantism
Council of Trent - Jesuit - Counter-Reformation's answer to Martin Luther
Thirty Years' War - protestants fled to the new world - William Penn "Pennsylvanian"
EP05: Protestantism - Evangelical Explosion
Moravian - 1722, Czech to eastern Germany, aimed to go to the new world
England - John Wesley appreciated the intensiveness of Catholicism - went to America with Moravians but went back frustrated - inspired by Moravian services and established first Methodist church in Bristol
Oxford Holy club - fasted, went to communion as often as possible, helped the poor - a methodical way to achieve holiness - Methodist
Africa & Asia
EP06: God in the Dock
Before the Enlightenment: 1. Netherland - Baruch Spinoza, expelled from the Amsterdam synagogue
2. UK - Isaac Newton, Apple led him to question the god and universe, "natural philosophy, science"
France - the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire, denies a Christian burial
- the Revolution, got the Catholicism too deep in harm
- Napoleon, coup de tat, fresh deal with Catholicism
Germany (Tubingen) - David Strauss, questioned Bible
UK - Charles Darwin, fossil
WWI - Kill other Christians in the name of god
Germany - Social Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Russia - Communism
WWII - Nazism using the myths to lurk people's mind by stating that the Jews killed JC and Christian churches failed to call it halt - a persecution that meant to happen for Christianity
England - St Martin-in-the-Fields, serving the Royal family, Navy, and 10 Downing St. Leader in many social reform e.g. Desegregation, Homosexual relationship
Summary
Eastern Orthodox - through ritual
Western Catholic - through church
Protestant - through Bible
