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• Fourth Century
  topic_name = Christianity in the Fourth Century | ...he Roman Empire, after a final burst of severe [[persecution]]. During the century the heresy of [[Arianism]] came to forefront and was addressed at the Counc
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• Timeline of church history
  ...facts should be omitted from this page, and instead be entered in specific century or year pages.}} ===[[First Century]]===
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• Fourth Century
  topic_name = Christianity in the Fourth Century | ...he Roman Empire, after a final burst of severe [[persecution]]. During the century the heresy of [[Arianism]] came to forefront and was addressed at the Counc
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• 1 Esdras
  ...ost likely written anonymously during the late 2nd century BC or early 1st century BC.
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• Latin
  ...onquests of the [[Roman Empire]] throughout the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD.
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• Third Book of Maccabees
  ...century B.C and described Jewish persecution in Egypt from the late third century B.C. Scholars generally agree the book was written in [[Koine Greek]].
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• History of Eastern Orthodoxy
  ====Dawn of the Byzantine Period (4th Century)==== After the schism with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in the 11th century, Constantinople would be for the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Vatican is
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• Nature of Christ
  ===Christological Controversies of the 4th and 5th century=== ...e earliest major Christological heresies to arise. [[Arius]], in the third century BC, taught that Jesus was human, but not divine. This issue was addressed a
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• Fourth Book of Maccabees
  ...est of the 3 books, having been wrote between the first century and second century AD.
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• Eastern Orthodoxy
  ===='''Chalcedonian Schism''' (5th Century)==== ===='''Schism with the Roman Catholic Faith '''(11th Century)====
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• Epistle to Diognetus
  ...but the language and other textual evidence dates the work to the late 2nd century; some assume an even earlier date and count it among the Apostolic Fathers. ...nuscripts, about two lines of the text are missing in the middle. The 13th century manuscript was obviously damaged in that place and the copies were made onl
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• Theologians and Evangelists
  ...church and society. [[Billy Graham]], for example, in the mid-to-late 20th century travelled the world speaking about the gospel to millions.
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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...ed by Joseph Smith in the United States of America in the early nineteenth century.
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• English translations of the Bible
  ...ack to the end of the 7th century, however it was not until the fourteenth century that a complete translation was finished. There have been hundreds of subse
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• The Way of the Pilgrim
  ...Way of the Pilgrim'' or ''The Pilgrim's Tale'' is the narrative of a 19th century Christian pilgrim traveling through what is now Ukraine, Russia, and Siberi * The author of the 19th Century work is unknown.
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• Hans Urs Von Balthasar
  Hans Urs Von Balthasar was a 20th century theologian who wrote many books. Some of his books included "Love alone
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• Cross
  ...ther. The Cross first became prominent in Christian imagery during the 3rd century.
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• Iowa Alliance for Reformation
  ...to bring revival in Iowa. The see themselves as a continuation of the 19th century evangelical mission, the [[wikipedia:en:Iowa Band|Iowa Band]].
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• Christophobia
  Christophobia has been around since the first century AD and has been directly responsible for the murder of millions of Christia
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• Micah
  Little is known about Micah. He prophesied in the second half of the 8th century BC during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah.
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• Syriac
  ...s replaced by Arabic in popular use. The literary period ends in the 13th century, when Syria was devastated by the Mongols. However oral use has continued During the 6th century the language began to diverge into Eastern and Western dialects. This was
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• Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
  [[Polycarp]] was the Bishop of Smyrna in the first half of the second century. He wrote several epistles, including the epistle to the Philippians. The e
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• Heinrich Bullinger
  ...g been underestimated. He was an important Reformed theologian of the 16th century.
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• A great and mighty wonder
  ...ith music dating back to the 16th century and words going back top the 8th century. It thus acts to demonstrate the enduring importance of [[Christmas]] in th
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• Athanasian Creed
  ...ascribed to [[Athanasius]], Archbishop of Alexandria, who lived in the 4th century. Most of today's historians agree that Athanasius was not the original auth
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• Archives of Video of The Week
  ...oster|Henry Koster]]''', and released by [[wikipedia:20th Century Fox|20th Century Fox]]. The screenplay, written by [[wikipedia:Norman Corwin|Norman Corwin]]
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• Matthew George Easton
  '''Matthew George Easton''' (1823-1894) was a famous eighteenth century Presbyterian preacher and writer from Scotland. He is most well known for h
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• Maronite Church
  ...itage reaches back to the [[Christian]] hermit, [[Maron]] in the early 5th century. Most Maronites live in [[Lebanon]] and are [[Arabic]]-speaking, but [[Syri
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• Puritan
  ...ished church following the [[Reformation]] in England in the 16th and 17th century. Today, the word puritan is sometimes used in a derogeratory sense to sugge
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• Codex Vaticanus
  ...n [[Codex Sinaiticus]], both of which were probably transcribed in the 4th century. It is written in Greek, on vellum, with uncial letters.
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• Greek
  ...stly in Greece. Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet since the 9th century BC. An older version of it, known as [[Koine Greek]] (or "New Testament Gre
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• Smith's Bible Dictionary
  ...onary''' is a [[Bible]] dictionary edited by [[William Smith]] in the 19th century. Early editions of Smith's Bible Dictionary are now in the public domain, a
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• Saint Thomas Christians
  ...Nasrani people. Their tradition goes back to the very beginnings of first century Christian thought, and the seven churches that are believed to have been es
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• Seventh-day Adventist
  ...llerite]] movement in the United States during the middle part of the 19th century. Commencing with an exploration of the concept of an "investigative judgmen
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• Idol
  ...worship of hollow forms. The word idol entered Middle English in the 13th century from Old French idole adapted in Church Latin from the Greek [[eidolon]] ("
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• Smith Bible Atlas
  ...a, Ephesus, Laodicea, Rhodes, Patmos and Pisidian Antioch during the first century AD
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• Epistle of Barnabas
  ...f an epistle containing twenty-one chapters, preserved complete in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus where it appears at the end of the New Testament. It is tr
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• 2 Esdras
  The book is traditionally ascribed to [[Ezra]] in the 5th century AD.
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• Distribution of the Bible
  ...sic form of the printing press) by [[Johannes Gutenberg]] in the fifteenth century, and the Protestant [[Reformation]] really marked the start of widespread d
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• Donatism
  ...of the Roman Empire who broke away from the wider church in the fourth and fifth centuries. They are named after [[Donatus Magnus]]. Donatists held the true ...disappear completely until the Arab conquest of North Africa in the eight century.
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• Europe
  ...y activity spread Christianity into northern Eastern Europe from the eight century onwards. In the twentieth century, Europe saw two major wars. In World War II, millions of Jews were murdered
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• Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible
  ...us verse-by-verse analysis of the entire Bible published in the eighteenth century. Its text can be accessed [[Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (te
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• Isaiah
  Isaiah was born in the 8th century BC to a man named Amoz. He married a woman known as "the prophetess" ([[Isa Uzziah reigned fifty-two years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's dea
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• Major events and movements in church history
  [[Missionary activity in the 18th to 20th century]]
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• Translating the Bible
  ...ack to the end of the 7th century, however it was not until the fourteenth century that a complete translation was finished. There have been hundreds of subse
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• Massachusetts
  Given that Massachusetts was founded and settled by Puritans in the 17th century there has historically been a large [[Protestant]] population, especially o ...o a large Jewish population which came to the area in the early twentienth century, and now almost 300,000 Jews live in Massachusetts.
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• Wisconsin
  ...the Midwest of the United States. Industrialization began in the late 19th century in the southeast, with Milwaukee as the major center. In recent decades ser
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• Marian prayers
  ...earliest known Marian prayer is [[Deipara, Dei Genetrix]], from the fifth century AD, with words "We you for protection, holy Mother of God." Probably the mo
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• Basil the Great
  ...Great, was [[bishop]] of [[Caesarea]], a leading [[theologian]] in the 4th century. The [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] considers him a [[saint]] and one of the T
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• Septuagint
  ...from Hebrew into Greek for the ruler Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the third century before Christ. ...[[Masoretic text]] on the other hand date from the first half of the 10th century AD, although there are also many fragments of the Hebrew text that date to
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• Inquisition
  ...h Americans who refused to convert to Catholicism from the early sixteenth century onward.
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• Easton's Bible Dictionary
  ...contains an extensive set of entries used in the Bible, albeit from a 19th century Christian viewpoint.
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• Christmas carols
  ...as]]. The tradition of Christmas carols goes back as far as the thirteenth century. Some famous carols include [[Hark the Herald Angels Sing (song)|Hark! The
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• Adonai
  ...l pointings to the text of the [[Old Testament|Hebrew Bible]] in the first century A.D., they gave the word YHWH the vowels of ''Adonai'', to remind the reade
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• Gospel of Thomas
  ...e is that the Gospel of Thomas was written by an unknown author in the 2nd Century A.D.
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• Apostles' Creed
  ...nt of [[Christianity|Christian]] belief, probably from the first or second century. It appears to have been written as a response to [[Gnosticism]]. The Apos
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• Gregory Nazianzus
  Gregory Nazianzen (or Gregori Nazianzus) was a 4th century Christian theologian and [[bishop]] of [[Constantinople]].
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• Old Catholic Church
  From the middle of the 18th century onward the Dutch Old Catholic See of Utrecht had increasingly vernacularize Soon after Old Catholicism's momentous events at the end of the 19th century, Old Catholic missionaries came to the United States. Here it has evolved f
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• Codex Sinaiticus
  Codex Sinaiticus is a 4th century uncial manuscript of the [[Koine Greek]] [[Bible]], written between 330–3
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• Westminster Confession, Larger Catechism and Shorter Catechism.
  ...n version. The * indicates that the reference is retained in a nineteenth-century American version. References which are not so marked are suppressed in bot
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• Reformation Day
  ...ally referred to as '''The Festival of the Reformation'''. Until the 20th Century, most Lutheran churches celebrated Reformation Day on October 31st, regardl ...ring the hymn, in memory of its use in the religious wars of the Sixteenth Century. It is also traditional in some Lutheran schools for schoolchildren to hold
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• Natural theology
  ...rl Barth]], one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century, sought to demonstrate that God can only be known through [[special revelat
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• Oriental Orthodoxy
  ...er Christian churches (such as the churches of Rome and Greece) in the 5th century. The separation resulted because the Oriental Orthodox churches would not
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• Famous Christians
  Christianity became accepted by the ruling classes especially in the 4th century AD, when the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I]] converted to Christianity. During the 20th century a number of prominent evangelists, theologians and writers, for example, [[
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• Yahweh
  ...elohim]] and this lead to the mis-transliteration of Jehovah in the [[19th century]]. The original vocals are known from the the ancient Greek translation the
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• Didache
  ...hristian]] treatise (dated by most scholars to the late first/early second century). The title Didache (pronounced /ˈdɪdəkiː/) is from the [[Koine Greek]]
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• Emerging Church
  ...ith the organized, institutional church as it has existed through the 20th century (whether fundamentalist, liberal, megachurch, or tall-steeple liturgical). ...ith the organized, institutional church as it has existed through the 20th century (whether fundamentalist, liberal, megachurch, or tall-steeple liturgical).
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• Sikhism
  ...region of current [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] by [[Guru Nanak]] in the 15th century. The Sikhs believe in one God called 'Sat Nam'.
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• Gnosticism
  Many Gnostic sects were around in the second century. One of the most influential and powerful "Christian" Gnostics was [[Marcio
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• Hymns
  ...ayer. Traditional Christian hymns became widely popular from the sixteenth century onwards, but in recent decades their popularity has been falling in the wes ...Latin, many have been translated. A familiar hymn of this type is the 11th century plainsong [[Divinum Mysterium]].
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• Christian
  ...ollowers of Jesus were first called Christians in [[Antioch]] in the first century AD. Today, there are over 2 billion people who call themselves Christians w
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• Apologetics: The Qur'an Teaches Jesus' Disciples Overcame (JBJ)
  ...vived for at least some time. Many different groups are known in the first century that claimed to follow Jesus like the [[Gnosticism | Gnostics]]. However, n
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• Moses
  ...Moses was born of the [[Tribe of Levi]] sometime between the 16th and 12th century B.C in [[Egypt]]. When he was born, Hebrews had already been enslaved in Eg
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• St. Linus
  ...nd Paul is falsely attributed to Linus (it was actually written in the 6th century). ...work also claims that Linus was buried on the [[Vatican Hill]]. In the 7th century an inscription was found near the confessional of St Peter, which was belie
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• Hussite
  ...Jan Hus]], in [[Bohemia]] (modern-day [[Czech Republic]]) in the fifteenth century. Their movement was one of the fore-runners of the [[Protestant]] [[Reforma
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• Identificational Repentance
  ...he Crusades and the Reformation/Counter Reformation - and in the twentieth century, the evils committed by Germans and Austrians during the Nazi regime.
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• Armenian Apostolic Church
  ...s Thaddeus and Bartholomew introduced Christianity to Armenia in the first century.
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• Amos
  ...esires justice and that the [[Kingdom of Israel]] would fall in the eighth century BC
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• Protestantism
  ...plit from the [[Roman Catholic Church]] that occurred during the sixteenth century in Europe — a period known as the Protestant [[Reformation]]. The split o There were five Solas, four discussed here. The fifth, Soli deo gloria (to God alone the glory), was intended to underly the othe
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• Jew
  ...of Jacob) who lived in the ancient land of Canaan probably around the 18th century BC.
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• Persecution of the early church
  ...major bout of persecution in the Roman Empire occurred later in the first century under [[Domitian]] who insisted that all people took oaths to him. Where Ch ...sued under [[Galerius]] and [[Diocletian]]. Finally however, in the fourth century, Galerius recognized that he was fighting a losing battle trying to stop Ch
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• Church of the Nazarene
  ...the tradition of evangelical Methodism that was founded in the early 20th century, and is located principally in the [[USA]].
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• Jesus: Our Lord and God
  [[Image:11th_century_image_jesus.jpg|thumb|center|11th century image of Jesus]]|
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• Torah
  ...generally believed a leader like Moses did in fact, exist during the 13th century B.C.
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• Russia
  ...is a country in Eastern [[Europe]] and northern [[Asia]]. Despite almost a century of communist rule that suppressed [[Christianity]] and promoted [[atheism]]
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• Mormonism: Polygamy
  ...y, it set Mormons apart from the rest of the United States during the 19th century. There are accounts indicating that [[Joseph Smith]] himself had 27 wives,
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• Epistle to the Hebrews
  ...o both been suggested. Both cities had Jewish populations during the first century AD, Alexandria more so than Rome. However, it is almost impossible to know
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• Environmentalism (Wahrheit)
  The religion of Environmentalism is a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. There's an init
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• Christianity in New Zealand
  ...ew Zealand]]''' dates to the arrival of [[missionaries]] in the early 19th Century, and is the country's primary religion. A number of denominations are prese ...first Christian missionaries came to New Zealand at the start of the 19th Century. The [[Church Missionary Society]], an [[Anglican]] organisation, establish
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• Atheism
  ...inkers took up an avowedly atheist position. Among the 18th and early 19th century atheists were D'Holbach, Feuerbach, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The move towards religious toleration in Europe and the USA in the 19th century first extended such toleration to rival Christian sects, then to [[Jew]]s a
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• Just as I am
  In the latter half of the twentieth century the hymn was popularized as an altar call song in the [[Billy Graham]] crus
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• The Next Level Church (Denver, Colorado)
  ...des biblically-based teaching series that are relevant to life in the 21st Century, worship concerts that allow us to explore what it really means to be in Go
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• Epistle of Barnabas (anon)
  ...f an epistle containing twenty-one chapters, preserved complete in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus where it appears at the end of the New Testament. It is tr ...arned translators have had before them the entire Greek text of the fourth century, disfigured is true by corruptions, but still very precious, the rather as
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• Abijam
  Abijam was a king of Judah in the 10th century BC. He was also called Abijah.
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• Islam (G.G.)
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• Enuma Elish
  ...s to the 7th century BC. The story itself probably dates to the eighteenth century BC on account of the fact that this is the time when the god Marduk seemed
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• Book of Isaiah
  The first 39 chapters of Isaiah were written in eighth century BC, in the era before the [[Kingdom of Judah]] was exiled, during the reign ...er than the first 39 chapters of Isaiah, in the post-exilic era of the 6th century BC. Isaiah 40 to 66 are certainly written with this historical context in m
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• Colossae
  ...period, the town was of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly in size and significance.
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• Off-shoots of Christianity
  In the fourth century, a dispute over the [[deity of Christ]] developed, known as Arianism, after
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• Athanasius
  ...a (Greek: Αθανάσιος) (293 – 373) was a bishop of Alexandria, in the fourth century. He was an instrumental figure in the fight against [[Arianism]]
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• Denominations
  ...ame to a parting of the ways with the remainder of Christianity in the 5th century. The key difference was the views of the Council of Chalcedon in 451. The s ...plit from the [[Roman Catholic Church]] that occurred during the sixteenth century in Europe — a period known as the Protestant [[Reformation]]. The split o
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