Apologists, Deviants, and the Creeds and Confessions

*Timeline of Christian Apologetics

Christian Era

Church Apologists

Deviant Church views

Creeds and Confessions

The Apostolic Church

Jesus and The Apostles (30 - 100)

Antinomianisim (No Law) (Joh 2:3-6, Jam 2:17, Rev 20:13)

Legalism (Only Law saves) (Mat 23, Gal 3:5, Rom 3:20)

Idolatry (Act 17:23, 1 Joh 5:21, 1 Cor 12:2)

The New Testament (55 - 100)

The Persecuted Church

Ignatius Of Antioch (? - 108)

Justin Martyr (100 - 165)

Irenaeus (108 - 200)

Tertullian (150 - 212)

Origen of Alexandria (150 - 212)

Cyprian of Carthage (? - 258)

Psilanthropism (Ebionitism "Christ only human") (100's)

Monatism (Montanus "Similar to Pentecoltalism") (late 100's)

Gnosticism (Ophites) (100's)

Adoptionism (Theodotus of Byzantium) (late 100's)

Marcionism (Marcion "Gnostic") (late 100's)

Monarchianism Sabelianism (Sabellius "Modalism") (200's)

Docetism ("Christ a Phantom") (100's and 200's)

Manichaeism (Mani "Dualistic Cosmology") (late 200's)

The Didache (70 - 160)

Writings Against Hersies (100's to 300's)

The Apostles Creed (? - 700)

The New Testament Cannon (200 to 300)

The Imperial Church

Eusebius of Caesarea (275 - 339)

Athanasius (296 - 373)

Jerome (331 - 420)

Ambrose (340 - 397)

John Chrysostom (347 - 407)

Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430)

Cyril of Alexandria (376 - 444)

Leo the Great (390 - 461)

Patrick (415 - 493)

Gregory the Great (540 - 604)

Arianism (Arius "Anti-trinitarian") (325)

Audianism (Audaeus "God is human") (300's)

Idolatry (condemed by Iconoclasts) (300's on)

Priscillianism (Pricillian "Gnostic") (300's)

Monophysitism - Apollinarianism (Apollinaris "one nature of Christ") (362)

Euchites or Messalians ("Modalism and Perfectionism") (370)

Pelagianism (Pelagius "Naturalism") (411)

Nestorianism (Nestorius "two persons of Christ") (431)

Monophysitism - Eutychianism (Eutyches "one nature of Christ") (451)

Synod of Elvira (306)

The Nicene Creed (325)

The Seven Ecumenical Councils (325 - 754)

The Latin (Vulgate) Bible (late 300's)

The New Testament Cannon (367)

Paschal Homily (400)

The Council of Toledo (400 - 702)

Confession of St. Patrick (451)

Chalcedonian Creed (451)

The Athanasian Creed (500)

The Medieval Church

Venerable Bede (672 - 735)

Alcuin (735 - 804)

Leo III (? - 816)

Anselm of Canterbury (1079 - 1109)

John Wycliff (1330 - 1364)

John Huss (1369 - 1415)

Idolatry (condemed by Iconoclasts) (500's on)

Bogamils (Bogumil "Gnostic") (900's)

Inquisition (Council of Verona) (1184)

Hail Mary (Savonarola & Council of Trent) (1495 - 1555)

Bible forbidden to laymen (Council of Toulouse) (1229)

Catharism (Albigensians "Gnostic") (1100's to 1300's)

Indulgences (4^th Lateran Council) (1200's)

Papal pimacy (Papal bull Unam sanctam) (1302)

The English Bible (Bede) (600's)

The English Bible (Wycliff) (1382)

The Reformation

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

John Knox (1483 - 1546)

Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531)

Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556)

William Tyndale (1490 - 1536)

Martin Bucer (1491 - 1551)

Michael Sattler (1495 - 1527)

Philipp Melanchthon (1497 - 1560)

Heinrich Bullinger (1504 - 1575)

Matthew Parker (1504 - 1575)

John Calvin (1509 - 1564)

Guido de Brès (1522 - 1567)

Socianism ( Sozzini, "Unitarianism/Anti-trinitarian") (1500's)

Idolatry (condemned by Iconoclasts) (1500's)

Antinomianisim (Agricola, Eaton "No Law") (1500'c and 1600's)

The English Bible (Tyndale) (1382)

The German Bible (Luther) (1531)

The Sixty Seven Articles (1523)

Schleitheim Confession (1527)

Luthers’s Small and Large Catechism (1529)

Strasburg Confession (1530)

The Augsburg Confession (1530)

Helvetic Confession #1 (1536)

Smalcald Articles (1537)

The Gallican Confession (1559)

The Scots Confession (1560)

The Belgic Confession (1561)

Helvetic Confession #2 (1562)

The Thirty-Nine Articles (1563)

The Heidelberg Catechism (1563)

The Modern Church

Jakob Andreä (1528 – 1590)
Martin Chemnitz (1522 – 1586)
Nikolaus Selnecker (1528 – 1592)
David Chytraeus (1531–1600)
Andreas Musculus (1514 – 1581)

James Ussher (1581 - 1656)

Synod of Dort (1618 - 1619)

John Owen (1616 - 1683)

Thomas Goodwin (1600 - 1679)

Westmister Assembly (1643 - 1649)

Benjamin Keach (1640 - 1704)

John Wesley (1703 - 1790)

John Newton (1803 - 1868)

Karl Barth (1886 - 1968)

Francis A Schaeffer (1912 - 1984)

James Montgomery Boice (1938 - 2000) Dr. Michael S. Horton (1964 - present)

Rosicrucianism (1607)

Deism (Locke, Tindal) (1600's to 1700's)

Swedenborgianism (1787)

Mormonism (1830)

Emaculate Conception of Mary (1854)

Semi Pelagianism (Finney) (late 1800's)

Modern Atheism (Marx, Nietzsche) (1800's)

Jehovah’s Witnesses (1870)

Christian Science (1879)

Agnosticism (Hume, Huxley) (1888)

Liberal Theology (Schleiermacher) (1800's)

Zionism (modern) (late 1800's)

Gnosticism (Modern) (late 1800's)

Oneness Pentecostalism (1914)

Worldwide Church of God (1934)

Unification Church (1954)

Unitarian Universalism (1961)

The Formula of Concord (1577)

The Book of Concord (1580)

The Irish Articles of Religion (1615)

Canons of Dordrecht (1618)

The Dordrecht Confession of Faith (1632)

The Westminster Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter Catechisms (1647)

Savoy Declaration (1658)

The London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

The Articles of Religion *Methodist (1784)

The New Hampshire Baptist Confession (1833)

The Theological Declaration of Barmen (1934)

The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978)

The Cambridge Declaration (1996)

Book references:
Loraine Boettner, Roman Catholicism
Walter Martin, Kingdom of the Cults
John D Woodbrigde, Great Leaders of the Christian Church
Henry Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church
Henry Bettenson, The Early Christian Fathers
Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, The Story of the Christian Church
Phillip Schaff, Early Church Fathers

Web references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/
http://infidels.org/library/modern/reason/agnosticism/agnostic.html
http://www.newadvent.org
https://carm.org
http://www.modernreformation.org
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=1054
http://justforcatholics.org/a198.htm
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc5.ii.xvii.vi.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Catholic_Church
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saintpatrick/confessio.php
http://www.ccel.org/

* All dates are approximations unless they are a fully established birth date, creed date, or the founding of a particular religion.

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