Sermon Tone Analysis
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Crucifixion of Jesus; Pentecost
35 Stephen martyred; Paul converted
46 Paul begins missionary journeys
48 Council of Jerusalem
57 Paul’s Letter to the Romans
64 Fire of Rome; Nero launches persecutions
65 Peter and Paul executed
THE AGE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY
70 Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
110 Ignatius of Antioch martyred
150 Justin Martyr dedicates his First Apology
155 Polycarp martyred
172 Montanist movement begins
180 Irenaeus writes Against Heresies
196 Tertullian begins writing
215 Origen begins writing
230 Earliest known public churches built
248 Cyprian elected bishop of Carthage
250 Decius orders empire-wide persecution
270 Antony takes up life of solitude
303 “Great Persecution” begins under Diocletian
THE AGE OF THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE
312 Conversion of Constantine
312 Donatist Schism begins
313 “Edict of Milan”
323 Eusebius completes Ecclesiastical History
325 First Council of Nicea
341 Ulphilas, translator of Gothic Bible, becomes bishop
358 Basil the Great founds monastic community
367 Athanasius’s letter defines New Testament canon
381 Christianity made state religion of Roman Empire
381 First Council of Constantinople
386 Augustine converts to Christianity
390 Ambrose defies emperor
398 Chrysostom consecrated bishop of Constantinople
405 Jerome completes the Vulgate
410 Rome sacked by Visigoths
431 Council of Ephesus
432 Patrick begins mission to Ireland
440 Leo the Great consecrated bishop of Rome
445 Valentinian’s Edict strengthens primacy of Rome
451 Council of Chalcedon
500 Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite writes
524 Boethius completes Consolation of Philosophy
529 Justinian publishes his legal Code
540 Benedict writes his monastic Rule
563 Columba establishes mission community on lona
THE CHRISTIAN MIDDLE AGES
590 Gregory the Great elected Pope
597 Ethelbert of Kent converted
622 Muhammad’s hegira: birth of Islam
663 Synod of Whitby
716 Boniface begins mission to the Germans
726 Controversy over icons begins in Eastern church
731 Bede’s Ecclesiastical History published
732 Battle of Tours
750 Donation of Constantine written about this time
754 Pepin III’s donation helps found papal states
781 Alcuin becomes royal adviser to Charles
787 Second Council of Nicea settles icon controversy
800 Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
843 Treaty of Verdun divides Carolingian Empire
861 East-West conflict over Photius begins
862 Cyril and Methodius begin mission to Slavs
909 Monastery at Cluny founded
988 Christianization of “Russia”
1054 East-West Split
1077 Emperor submits to pope over investiture
1093 Anselm becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1095 First Crusade launched by Council of Clermont
1115 Bernard founds monastery at Clairvaux
1122 Concordat of Worms ends investiture controversy
1141 Hildegard of Bingen begins writing
1150 Universities of Paris and Oxford founded
1173 Waldensian movement begins
1208 Francis of Assisi renounces wealth
1215 Magna Carta
1215 Innocent III assembles Fourth Lateran Council
1220 Dominican Order established
1232 Gregory IX appoints first “inquisitors”
1272 Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica
1302 Unam Sanctam proclaims papal supremacy
1309 Papacy begins “Babylonian” exile in Avignon
1321 Dante completes Divine Comedy
1370 Catherine of Siena begins her Letters
1373 Julian of Norwich receives her revelations
1378 Great Papal Schism begins
1380 Wycliffe supervises English Bible translation
1414 Council of Constance begins
1415 Jan Hus burned at stake
1418 Thomas a’ Kempis writes The Imitation of Christ
1431 Joan of Arc burned at stake
1453 Constantinople falls; end of Eastern Roman Empire
1456 Gutenberg produces first printed Bible
1479 Establishment of Spanish Inquisition
1488 First complete Hebrew Old Testament
1497 Savonarola excommunicated
1506 Work begins on new St.
Peter’s in Rome
1512 Michelangelo completes Sistine Chapel frescoes
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