Pope Leo the great (440-461 AD) is famous for his Tome of Leo document‚ The Council of Chalcedon‚ and he illuminated the conformist definition of Jesus’ being as the religious states of two beings- divine and human. Despite all of this‚ Pope Leo the Great is most famous for his persuasion of the crude Attila the Hun (434-453 AD) to not invade Italy in 452 AD. The emperors usually paid off barbaric tribes to not invade them but this further gave reason for the tribes to invade Western Europe. The
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INTRODUCTION 1. BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT. 1.1. Meaning of the word ‘Ecumenical’. 1.2. Four General Council of the Church. 1.2.1. Council of Nicaea 325 1.2.2. Council of Constantinople I 381 1.2.3. Council of Ephesus 431 1.2.4. Council of Chalcedon 451 1.3. The Evangelical Alliance in 1846 in London. 1.4. William Carey Proposal for Missionary Conference. 1.5. World Missionary Conference in 1910 Edinburgh. 2. MISSIONARY CONFERENCE 1910 EDINBURGH AND ITS RESULT
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Aquinas‚ that Jesus immediately at His conception had “an intimate and immediate knowledge of His Father” (8). The problem with this teaching by the CDF‚ as noted by Loewe‚ is that it comes‚ “…perilously close to denying the clear teaching of the Council of Chalcedon that in his humanity‚ Jesus was ‘like us in all things except sin’”(4). As such the CDF‚ by emphasizing Jesus’ divinity as the Logos‚ tends to separate Jesus from the community of humanity. Liberation theology and Sobrino’s Christology concerning
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Critical Review: Theology; The Basics By: Luke Knoll Survey Of Christian Beliefs Kerry Pretty Pacific Life Bible College Theology: The Basics; Critical Review As Christians we often believe certain things simply because it’s what our parents and the people around us believe. We often go about our Christian walk without ever giving thought or reason to why we believe what we do. The world of Christian Theology is a place where Christians can find answer to the ‘what and why’ of Christianity
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Marburg Colloquy It’s October 1529 and I have managed to sit in on the all debates held by Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli. This meeting in Marburg to be known as the Colloquy at Marburg has been in the making since Luther and Zwingli‚ first started to realize a difference in their theological beliefs. This indifference started about three years ago when Martin Luther learned that Zwingli had begun to revise the explanation of the Eucharist.1 In reaction Luther indirectly said to Zwingli‚ “I regard
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* Avignon Papacy caused many people to say that councils should have more power than the pope‚ Great Schism enhanced this * Various movements and groups * Wycliff – condemned as a heretic after his lifetime * Hus – condemned as a heretic during his lifetime * Both were seen as beginnings of Reformation * Wycliff was alive during 14th century (during Avignon)‚ he was deeply troubled by the wealth and power of the pope‚ looks to the Bible for inspiration (believed it was the whole
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slavery‚ lead to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845. In 1907 the northern Baptists formed the Northern Baptist Convention. Before the Reformation‚ the major divisions within Christianity were between those who accepted the Council of Chalcedon and those who did not. The Protestant Reformation was the conclusion of forces that had been calling for reform within the Western church for centuries. The consequence was an explosive breakage of Christian groups. One of the main streams
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Church Triumphant: The Primacy of Rome The 4th & 5th centuries constituted the epoch of the emergence of the great Patriarchates: Rome‚ Alexandria & Antioch [all recognised at the Council of Nicea (325)]; Constantinople [recognised at the Council of Constantinople in 381] and Jerusalem [recognised at Chalcedon (451)]. However‚ all through the patristic era Rome’s prestige & pre-eminence was undisputed. After Constantinople (381) the predicates ‘one’‚ ‘holy’‚ ‘catholic’ and ‘apostolic’ came
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THE IMPACT OF TWO MAJOR HERESIES ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH INTRODUCTION This essay will consider two early heresies and their impact on the Church: Gnosticism Arianism Discussion will include: Background Information The Person and Nature of our Lord Jesus Christ The etiology‚ content and current status of each heresy The Church’s response to each The outcome and consequences of these heresies The essay will conclude: Heresies present enormous challenges for the church: “if a kingdom be
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known as the “The Third Theological Oration” and “Oration 29‚” was written by St. Gregory of Nazianus (c. 329 - 390). He was the Archbishop of Constantinople during the 4th century‚ and after his death he became knows at “the Theologian” by the Council of Chalcedon. He is considered to be one of the “Cappadocian Fathers” amongst other defenders of the faith‚ and theologians of that time such as Basil the Great‚ Gregory of Nyssa and others (Intro). In the introduction of On God and Christ‚ it is said that
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