by deaconrajan | Jan 30, 2023 | Church History
Church History Part 13 Threat from Gnosticism In last week’s article we saw one of the internal issues that the early Church fathers had to address was Christianity’s relationship with Judaism. While reflecting on the disputes between different group of Christians on...
by deaconrajan | Jan 29, 2023 | Church History
Church History Part 14 Threat from Gnosticism The Church in the second century was made up of local communities from the Mediterranean Sea to the Middle East. They had a strong sense of unity even though they were loosely organized. This is when another controversy...
by deaconrajan | Jan 28, 2023 | Church History
Church History Part 15 Emperor Constantine -A turning point in Church history Around A.D 285 Diocletian became the Roman emperor. He realized that the empire had grown too large to be governed by one person. He divided the kingdom into two (East and West). He kept...
by deaconrajan | Jan 26, 2023 | Church History
Church History Part 16 Father, Son and the Holy Spirit - Three Persons - But one God? In my last article on Nov 6th bulletin, we had reached a point in the Church history where emperor of Rome, Constantine had made Christianity as an official religion of Rome. For...
by deaconrajan | Jan 25, 2023 | Church History
Church History Part 17 First Ecumenical Council Last week I introduced a priest from Alexandria, Egypt named Arius. Arius taught that God was wholly singular and beyond human comprehension. He was suggesting that Jesus, Son of God, was less than the God the Father...
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