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The Departure of Organized Christianity from its Roots, Second through Sixth Centuries CE
Ian Johnson
December 25, 2020
A God who Speaks, Adoption, Authority Contests, Background Information, Church History, Islamic History and Secular History Interaction, Church purpose versus church growth, Complex unity, Compulsory Christianity, Discipline or Correction, Disputes about words, Disrespecting poor believers, Divisions in the Church, Forgiveness and Unforgiveness, Free will, God Never Stopped Speaking, God Speaks to Us, God's Existence and Nature, God's purpose for us, God's sovereignty, God's Voice, Greed, Heresy, Historical Background, Index, Injustice and Lawsuits, Jesus the Son, Leaving Our First Love, Male and female, Marriage, Marriage and Reproduction, Merit, Other Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Peril of Seeking Numbers, Peril of Seeking Power, Peril of Seeking Respectability, Prophecy, Purpose of the Church, Quarrels, Regeneration, Religious violence and persecution, Replacing Relationship with Morality, Salvation, Sin, Sins versus sin, Site Index Page, Social control and statecraft, Son of Man, The Bible, Through the church, To be in his image, Trinity, Unity, Wars as consequences, What is God's Word, What is sin?
Christian Divisions, Fifth Century Christianity, Fourth Century Christianity, Hellenistic Phiolosophy, heresy, Heresy hunting, Index, Just War Theory, Monotheism, Roman Law, Roman Law and Jurisprudence, Roman Religion, Rome, Second Century Christianity, Sixth Century Christianity, Syncretism, Third Century Christianity
This is an outline of the second part of my attempt to link early errors of organized Christianity to the state of the modern world--specifically, in this part, by showing the origins and entrance of specific errors before Muhammad which profoundly affected subsequent history. Links will be added as future posts are written.
- Important Aspects of Roman Civic and Imperial State Religion that Influenced the Development of Christianity
- Important Aspects of Roman Statecraft and Jurisprudence that Influenced the Development of Christianity
- Outline of Important Aspects of Greek Philosophical Systems, Borrowed by Greco/Roman Culture, that Influenced the Development of Christianity
- Christian Syncretism
- Christianity and Roman Power Politics
- Early Christian Monotheism as Modified by the Politically Mandated Resolution of the Christological and Trinitarian Disputes
- Shift to Allegorical Interpretation of the Scriptures
- Abandonment of the Original Concept of the Kingdom of the Heavens
- The Rejection of God’s Voice
- The Elevation of the Bishops and the Clergy, and the Veneration of Mary and the “Saints”
- Shifts in Public Symbolism
- The Rise of Penance and of Forgiveness Dispensed by the Church Organization as a Means of Social Control
- The Development of Just War Theory
- Shifts in the method and language of non-military “evangelism” and teaching
- The Subjection of Women in the Church and Idolization of Mary and Female “Saints”
- Parallel Development of Miaphysite Christianity
- Parallel Development of “Nestorian” Eastern Christianity
- Philopponian Christianity and Other Variants that Affected Arabia
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