Personalities, Movements, & Doctrinal Developments in Church History

I. Leading Personalities in Church History

A. The Ancient Church (A.D. 1-590)
1. Peter (N.T.)
2. James (N.T.)
3. John (N.T.)
4. Paul (N.T.)
5. Ignatius (A.D. 30-107)
6. Polycarp (A.D. 70-156)
7. Justin Martyr (A.D. 100-160)
8. Irenaeus (A.D. 125-203)
9. Tertullian (A.D. 160-220)
10. Origen (A.D. 183-254)
11. Cyprian (A.D. 200-260)
12. Novatian (A.D. 230-265)
13. Eusebius (A.D. 263-339)
14. Athanasius (A.D. 296-373)
15. Basil of Caesarea (A.D. 320-379)
16. Gregory of Nazianzen (A.D. 330-389)
17. Gregory of Nyssa (A.D. 330-395)
18. Ambrose (A.D. 339-397)
19. Jerome (A.D. 345-420)
20. Augustine (A.D. 354-430)
21. John Chrysostom (A.D. 374-407)
22. Cyril of Alexandria (A.D. 380-440)

B.The Medieval Church (A.D. 590-1517)
1. Gregory the Great (A.D. 540-604)
2. John of Damascus (A.D. 675-749)
3. Anselm (A.D. 1033-1109)
4. Bernard of Clairvaux (A.D. 1091-1153)
5. Peter Lombard (A.D. 1095-1159)
6. Peter Waldo (d. ca. 1217)
7. Francis of Assisi (A.D. 1181-1226)
8. Thomas Aquinas (A. D. 1225-1274)
9. Meister Eckhart (A. D. 1260-1327)
10. Johann Tauler (A.D. 1290-1361)
11. William of Occam (A. D. 1300-1349)
12. John Wycliffe (A.D. 1328-1384)
13. John Huss (A.D. 1369-1415)
14. Thomas A Kempis (A. D. 1380-1471)
15. Girolamo Savonarola (A.D. 1452-1498)
16. Desiderius Erasmus (A.D. 1466-1536)
17. William Tyndale (A.D. 1494-1536)

C. The Modern Church (A.D. 1517 - Present)
1. Martin Luther (A.D. 1483-1546)
2. Philip Melanchthon (A.D. 1497-1560)
3. John Calvin (A.D. 1509-1564)
4. Ulrich Zwingli (A.D. 1484-1531)
5. John Knox (A.D. 1513-1572)
6. Conrad Grebel (A.D. 1498-1526)
7. Menno Simons (A.D. 1496-1561)
8. Thomas Cranmer (A.D. 1489-1556)
9. Hugh Latimer (A.D. 1485-1555)
10. Miles Coverdale (A.D. 1488-1568)
11. Jacobus Arminius (A.D. 1560-1609)
12. Thomas Cartwright (A.D. 1535-1603)
13. Robert Browne (A.D. 1550-1633)
14. Oliver Cromwell (A.D. 1599-1658)
15. John Owen (A.D. 1616-1683)
16. John Bunyan (A. D. 1628-1688)
17. Ignatius Loyola (A.D. 1491-1556)
18. Jean Daille (A.D. 1594-1670)
19. Francis Xavier (A.D. 1506-1552)
20. Jon Amos Comenius (A.D. 1592-1670)
21. Johann Arndt (A.D. 1555-1621)
22. Madame Guyon (A.D. 1648-1717)
23. Philip Jacob Spener (A.D. 1635-1703)
24. August Hermann Francke (A.D. 1663-1727)
25. Johannes Albrecht Bengel (A.D. 1687-1752)
26. Count von Zinzendorf (A.D. 1700-1760)
27. William Law (A.D. 1686-1761)
28. John Wesley (A. D. 1703-1791)
29. George Whitefield (A. D. 1714-1770)
30. George Fox (A.D. 1642-1691)
31. Roger Williams (A.D. 1603-1683)
32. Jonathan Edwards (A.D. 1703-1758)
33. Francis Asbury (A.D. 1745-1816)
34. David Brainerd (A.D. 1718-1747)
35. John Nelson Darby (A.D. 1800-1882)
36. George Muller (A.D. 1805-1898)
37. Andrew Murray (A.D. 1828-1917)
38. Charles Finney (A.D. 1792-1875)
39. Charles Spurgeon (A.D. 1834-1892)
40. Dwight L. Moody (A.D. 1837-1899)
41. John Henry Newman (A.D. 1801-1890)
42. William Carey (A.D. 1761-1834)
43. David Livingstone (A.D. 1813-1873)
44. Hudson Taylor (A.D. 1832-1905)
45. Karl Barth (A.D. 1886-1968)
46. Watchman Nee (A.D. 1903-1972)
47. Billy Graham (A.D. 1918 - )

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II. Movements and Issues in Church History

A. The Ancient Church (A.D. 1-590)
1. Division within the New Testament
2. Persecution under the Roman government
3. The apostolic fathers
4. The apologists
5. Judaistic heresies
6. Gnosticism
7. Marcionism
8. Montanism
9. Monarchianism
10. The Monarchial Episcopate
11. Church-State relationships
12. Monasticism
13. Donatism
14. Arianism
15. The Byzantine Empire
16. The development of the papacy

B. The Medieval Church (A.D. 590-1517)
1. The conversion of the Barbarian Tribes
2. The Moslems
3. The Holy Roman Empire
4. The Eastern Church
5. The East-West Schism of A.D. 1054
6. Monastic orders
7. Scholasticism
8. The Crusades
9. Dissenters and heretical groups
a. Paulicians
b. Bogomils
c. Cathari
d. Waldensians
e. Lollards
f. Hussites
10. Mysticism
11. The Schism of the Papacy (A.D. 1378-1417)
12. The Conciliar Movement
13. The Renaissance Movement

C. The Modern Church (A.D. 1517 - Present)
1. Lutheranism and Reform in Germany
2. Calvinism or Reformed
a. Switzerland
b. Scotland
3. Anabaptists or the Radical Reformation
4. Anglicanism and Reform in England
5. Puritans and Non-Conformists
6. Huguenots and the Reform in France
7. Catholicism and the Counter-Reformation
a. The Society of Jesus
b. The Council of Trent
8. The Age of Reason
a. Rationalism and Deism
9. Quietism
10. Pietism
11. Methodism
12. Evangelical Awakenings and Revivals
13. Romanticism
14. Liberalism
15. Denominationalism
a. Mainline Denominations
b. Non-Denominational
c. Aberrant Denominations
16. Foreign and Domestic Missions
17. Movements
a. The Oxford Movement
b. The Ecumenical Movement
c. The Abolition Movement
18. Plymouth Brethrenism
19. Fundamentalism
20. Neoorthodoxy
21. Evangelicalism
22. Pentecostalism and Charismatics

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III. Doctrinal Developments in Church History

A. The Ancient Church (A.D. 1-590)
1. The development of the New Testament Canon
2. Heresy within the New Testament
3. Creeds and Councils
a. Jerusalem (Acts 15)
b. Nicea (A.D. 325)
c. Constantinople (A.D. 381)
d. Ephesus (A.D. 431)
e. Chalcedon (A.D. 451)
4. Concerning the Trinity
a. Monarchianism
b. Arianism
c. Tritheism
5. Concerning the Person of Christ
a. Ebionism
b. Docetism
c. Arianism and Semi-Arianism
d. Apollinarianism
e. Nestorianism
f. Eutychianism
g. Monophysitism
h. Monothelitism
6. Concerning the Holy Spirit
a. Macedonianism
7. Concerning Man and Grace
a. Pelagianism
b. Augustinianism
c. Semi-Pelagianism
d. Semi-Augustinianism
e. Trichotomy and dichotomy
8. Concerning Redemption
a. Recapitulation (Irenaeus)
b. Deification (Athanasius)
9. Concerning the Church
a. Apostolic and Church fathers
(1) Church government
(2) Sacraments
(3) Worship
(4) Christ's Mystical Body
10. Concerning the Scriptures
a. Typology and allegory (Origen)
b. Chiliasm (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian)

B. The Medieval Church (A.D. 590-1517)
1. Concerning Worship
a. The Iconoclast Controversy
b. The mystical theology of the Eastern Church
c. The development of penance and indulgences
2. Concerning the Atonement
a. Anselm (Cur Deus Homo - "Why did God become Man?)
b. Abelard
3. Concerning Grace
a. The Scholastic teaching (Peter the Lombard and Aquinas)
4. Concerning the Spiritual Life
a. German spirituality (e.g. Tauler)
b. Italian spirituality (e.g. Francis of Assisi)
c. Western European spirituality (e.g. Ruysbroeck)
d. Brethren of the Common Life (e.g.Groote)

C. The Modern Church (A.D. 1517 - Present)
1. Concerning the Bible and Tradition
2. Concerning Justification
a. Luther and Calvin
b. The Council of Trent
3. Concerning the Church
a. State-Church
b. Free Churches
c. Denominationalism
d. Plymouth Brethren
4. Concerning the Sacraments
5. Calvinism
6. Arminianism
7. Creeds and Confessions
8. Wesleyanism
9. Covenant Theology
10. Dispensational Theology
11. Concerning the Spiritual Life
a. E.g., Caspar Schwenkfeld, Madame Guyon, Fenelon, William Law, Count Zinzendorf, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Keswick, Andrew Murray, Watchman Nee
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