IMPORTANT EVENTS IN

HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN
EDUCATION
 SEPTUAGINT ( 250 BC)

 The name Septuagint derives from the Latin

word septuaginta, which means 70
 An attempt to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek, 70/72
rabbis gathered, locked themselves in 70/72 chambers,
went out and found out no difference in the translation,
decided it was the correct, God approved version.
The Septuagint
 Nicean Council (325).
 Held in order to establish the doctrines that all
Christian should believe in
 the council established the equality of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity and
asserted that only the Son became incarnate as Jesus
Christ
The Nicean Council
 The Council of Trent
 The Council of Trent was the Roman Catholic Church’s
rebuttal to the Reformation, attempting to establish and
solidify the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church.

 The three outcomes of the Council of Trent where that

is established a confession of faith and supremacy of
the Papacy, it condemned the Protestant doctrine of
justification by faith, and it rejected the Protestant
view of Scripture alone.
The Council of Trent
 The 95 Theses
  a list of propositions for an
academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin
Luther,
 The 95 Theses were largely written to oppose the
selling of indulgences to the people in order to
reduce the time their loved one spent in purgatory.
 Indulgence
 Indulgences were the commutation for money of
part of the temporal penalty due for sin.
 Indulgences were a piece of paper from the Church
that was supposed to lessen a person's time in
purgatory and help them get to heaven faster. 
The 95 Theses
 First Great awakening 1740

 A period when spirituality and religious

devotion were revived.
 The overall message was one of greater equality.
So the First Great Awakening paved the way for
independence and the Constitution.
The City of God vs. The Earthly City

 The City of God offers true happiness and eternal salvation,

the Earthly City, or city of Man, will eventually be met with
eternal damnation. Or in other words, loving God is the route
to heaven, while prioritizing earthly concerns and loving
oneself leads to hell.
 The Earthly City, defined by earthly desires and actions. The
other is the City of God, defined by spiritual pursuits. Humans
could only be citizens of one city, and their natural default was
to live in the earthly city (as a result of the Fall of Man).