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The dead sea scrolls-written 250BC-68AD
Discovered in1947AD - 1956AD
The dead sea scolls were found by a shephered
exploring cases close to the shore of the dead sea
in 1947,
among the hundreds of manuscripts was
a complete scroll of
the book of Isiah
in the Old
Testament. Up to that time, skeptics had said that we
could not have an accurate translation of the bibledue to the thousand of years of copying by hand.
They believed canges from the orginals must haveoccured over
thousand of years.Constantine the great - 306-377AD
Constantines was a
Roman emperor who lived
from 274 to 337AD. He was the first Roman
emperor to
convert conversion to chrisitianity, many doubt
the authenticitally of his conversion and consider
him to
be one who tried to use the church and his faith
for his own political advantage.
They called the
first christian cannil of the christian church at nicea in 325 AD
because he thought that problems nitin the glaning church
would cause problem within his empir, cantantiMartin Luther was a christian theolosian and mank whose teachines inspined thje pretestant refarmantion he believe
in the bible alone as a
rules for fair and encouraged people to reture to its reacher.
beacause of his belied in this it was important for him to translate it into the language
of his people in berman .
The wartef his lifetime helfed the teachines of the bible sain centre stase again for the people of germant and befand.Around 1455 a man named jehannes butrnpery inreanted a printing pless by using mar able metal
letrers oil-based in it, and a ressing tool .
this meant that for the first time, backs could be repreduced much
more quickly than ever before .
This also meant that bible would new be much more available and people could own their own copiece in 1455,
Gutenbveug printer the first bible an his printing progress.In North Africa during the reign of Constantine, Donatism formed as a schism.
Donatists refused - sometimes violently - to accept back into the Church those who had handed over sacred texts during Diocletian's persecution.
After many appeals, the empire responded with force,
and in 408 in his Letter 93, Augustine defended the government's action.In 1900, under colonial rule, there were just under 9 million Christians in Africa. By 1960,
and the end of colonialism,
there were about 60 million. By 2005,
African Christians had
increased to 393 million,
about half of the continent's total population.Collaboration between Protestants and Catholics made little progress
until 11 October 1962
when Pope John XXIII
opened the Second Vatican Council,
the 21st ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.The history of Christianity begins with the ministry of Jesus,
a Jewish teacher and healer who was crucified and died c.
AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea. Afterwards,
his followers, a set of apocalyptic Jews, proclaimed him risen from the dead. Christianity began as a
Jewish sect and remained so for centuries in some locations,
diverging gradually from Judaism over doctrinal,
social and historical differences.
In spite of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, the faitConstantine the Great was the first Roman Emperor to declare himself a Christian. In 313,
he issued the Edict of Milan expressing tolerance for all religions.
He did not make Christianity the state religion, but he did provide crucial support. Constantine called the first of seven ecumenical councils. In the fourth-century,
Eastern and Western Christianity had already begun to diverge. Between 600 and 750,
the constant need to defend itself in war turned the Eastern Roman Empire into the independent polIn the early 600s, Christianity extended around the Mediterranean,
across much of Europe into Spain and Britain, East to the edge of Central Asia as far as Zerang and Qandahar in modern Afghanistan, and into the Sassanian Persian Empire,
with Christian churches concentrated in northern Iraq in the foothills of the Zagros,
and in the trading posts of the Persian Gulf.The church appointed its bishops and abbots, but it was the nobles who owned the land,
and they were the ones who had control over who got "invested" into a paying job on their land.
Under Pope Gregory VII (1073–1085), the Roman Catholic Church was determined to end this duality.
This produced the Investiture controversy which began in the Holy Roman Empire in 1078.William Tyndale was an English Biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution.
He translated much of the Bible into English,
and was influenced by the works of prominent Protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther.the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in April 1585.
He is best known for commissioning
and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar,
which remains the
internationally accepted civil calendar to this day.in 1752, where Wednesday 2 September 1752 was immediately followed
by Thursday 14 September 1752;
they were joined by
the last Protestant holdout Sweden, on 1 March 1753.
The Gregorian calendar was not accepted in eastern
Christendom for several hundred years, and then only as the civil calendar.125 year before chist but amazing
apawt from some spelling variations, mat chei with
the bible that use today.Event progress
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