Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Part 1 (1000 BCE – 100 CE)

faith-and-doubt

• The Bible is full of criticism of Church tradition, spending much energy denouncing the clergy — a healthy warning to all who aspire to tell others what to do.

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• Christianity survived a major crisis when the Last Days did not arrive — perhaps one of the greatest turning points in the Christian story.

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obedience-and-authority

• The outcome of the Council of Chalcedon was dictated by political circumstances and did not carry the whole Christian world with it.

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• The Zealots held that the only solution to Roman humiliation was violent resistance, giving impetus to successive disastrous revolts that shattered Jewish life in Palestine.

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belonging

• Something remarkable happened to the Habiru massing in Canaan: they constructed a new identity, sealed by a God not associated with older establishments or shrines.

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• Morgan's Welsh Bible preserved the special character of Welsh culture, ensuring against all likelihood that the Welsh became overwhelmingly Protestant.

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