Student Handout pp. 1-16 [PDF] - Grace Church of Mentor

church in the New Testament.
2. 100-313 Age of Martyrs (from death of John to Edict of Milan). [100-325 Ante-
Nicene Period].
3. 313-590 Age of Christian Emperors and Patriarchs (from Edict of Milan to
Gregory I). [325-451 Post-Nicene or Conciliar Era (Nicea to Chalcedon)].
B. Medieval Period. A.D. 590-1517 (Gregory I to Luther).
1. 590-800 Emergence of Latin-Teutonic Christendom (from Gregory the Great to the
crowning of Charlemagne).
2. 800-1049 (1054) Tensions between Churches and Church and State (from
Carolingian renaissance to Leo IX and Great Schism).
3. 1049 (1054)-1294 Supremacy of the Papacy (from Leo IX and Great Schism to
Boniface XIII).
4. 1294-1517 Decline of Papacy and Opposing Forces (from Boniface VIII to Ninety-
Five Theses).
C. Reformation and Modern Period. A.D. 1517 to present.
1. 1517-1648 Reformation and Counter-Reformation (from Ninety-Five Theses to
Treaty of Westphalia).
2. 1648-1750 Protestant Rationalism, Pietism, and Expansion (from Treaty of
Westphalia to beginning of civil revolution).
3. 1750-1815 Christianity in the Revolutionary Age (from beginning of civil revolution
to end of Napoleonic era).
4. 1815-1914 The Great Century: World-wide Christian Expansion (from Congress of
Vienna to World War I).
5. 1914 to present The Church in Conflict with Modernism and Ecumenical Union
(from World War I to current Ecumenical Movement).
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