Bible & Christianity
190 items and 330 connections. The Bible's story and the history of Christianity, from Genesis to today. Labeled historical record, mostly agreed by scholars, debated, or faith & scripture.
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Bible story & events
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Creation & the patriarchsGenesis
Creation, Noah and the covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Genesis).
Exodus, Law & the Promised Landc. 1500 – 1050 BC
Moses, the Exodus, the Law and the entry into Canaan.
Kings & prophetsc. 1050 – 586 BC
Saul, David, Solomon, the Temple and the prophets.
Exile & the Second Temple586 – 4 BC
Babylonian exile, return, the Second Temple and waiting for a messiah.
Jesusc. 4 BC – AD 33
The life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus.
The apostles & the New TestamentAD 33 – 100
Pentecost, Paul and the writing of the New Testament.
Early church & the councils100 – 500
Persecution, Constantine, the creeds and the canon.
The medieval church500 – 1500
Popes, monasteries, the Great Schism, Crusades and scholars.
Reformation1500 – 1650
Luther, Calvin, the Catholic Reformation and wars of religion.
Revivals & missions1650 – 1900
Revivals, missions, and Christianity reaching Korea.
Christianity today1900 – today
A global faith: Vatican II, Pentecostals, megachurches, new popes.
Every item as its own page (190)
Creation & the patriarchs
- Creation of the world (Genesis 1–2)
- Adam and Eve and the Fall
- Sin and original sin
- Noah's Ark and the Flood
- Tower of Babel
- Abraham, father of many nations
- God's covenant with Abraham
- Isaac and the binding of Isaac
- Jacob, renamed Israel
- Joseph, sold into slavery in Egypt
- Mesopotamian flood stories (Atrahasis, Gilgamesh)
Exodus, Law & the Promised Land
- Moses, lawgiver and prophet
- The Exodus from Egypt
- The first Passover
- Ten Commandments and the Law at Mount Sinai
- Forty years in the wilderness
- Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant
- Joshua and the conquest of Canaan
- Fall of Jericho
- Merneptah Stele: earliest mention of 'Israel'
- Time of the Judges (Gideon and others)
- Deborah, prophet and judge
- Ruth the Moabite
- Samson
- Samuel, last judge and kingmaker
Kings & prophets
- King Saul, Israel's first king
- David and Goliath
- King David
- Book of Psalms
- Jerusalem, City of David
- King Solomon
- Solomon's Temple (the First Temple)
- Wisdom books: Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes
- Kingdom splits: Israel (north) and Judah (south)
- Elijah the prophet
- The Hebrew prophets
- Tel Dan Stele: the 'House of David'
- Minor prophets: Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah and others
- Isaiah the prophet and the Book of Isaiah
- The hope of a Messiah (anointed king)
- Assyria conquers Israel (fall of Samaria)
- King Hezekiah and Sennacherib's siege
- One God: Israel's monotheism
- Jeremiah the prophet
- Babylon destroys Jerusalem and the First Temple
Exile & the Second Temple
- Babylonian exile
- Daniel in Babylon
- Cyrus the Great of Persia
- Return from exile
- The Second Temple
- Queen Esther (the story of Purim)
- Ezra and Nehemiah rebuild Jerusalem
- The Torah (Pentateuch, five books of Moses)
- The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
- Alexander the Great brings Greek rule
- Septuagint: the Greek Old Testament
- Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran)
- Deuterocanonical books (the Apocrypha)
- Maccabean revolt and Hanukkah
- Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes
- Rome conquers Judea
- Herod the Great
Jesus
- Birth of Jesus in Bethlehem (Christmas)
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Mary, mother of Jesus
- Pontius Pilate
- Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan
- John the Baptist
- Sermon on the Mount (Beatitudes, Lord's Prayer)
- The Kingdom of God
- The Twelve Apostles
- Love God and love your neighbor (Great Commandment)
- Miracles of Jesus
- Parables of Jesus (Good Samaritan, Prodigal Son)
- Crucifixion of Jesus under Pontius Pilate
- Mary Magdalene
- Resurrection of Jesus (Easter)
- The Great Commission and the Ascension
- The Last Supper
The apostles & the New Testament
- Pentecost: the Holy Spirit and the first church
- Simon Peter, leader of the apostles
- Paul the Apostle
- James, brother of Jesus
- Paul's missionary journeys
- Council of Jerusalem: Gentiles welcomed
- The New Testament
- Letters of Paul (epistles)
- Second Coming and the end times
- Salvation through Christ
- Grace: salvation as God's free gift
- Letter to the Romans
- Roman persecution of Christians
- Rome destroys the Temple (AD 70)
- The four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)
- Josephus, Jewish historian
- Acts of the Apostles
- Church and synagogue part ways
- Book of Revelation
Early church & the councils
- Early martyrs: Ignatius, Polycarp, Perpetua
- Gnostics and Marcion
- The Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
- Constantine the Great
- Edict of Milan: tolerance for Christians
- Arius and the Arian controversy
- Council of Nicaea
- The Nicene Creed
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Constantinople, the 'New Rome'
- The biblical canon: the agreed list of books
- Christianity becomes Rome's official religion
- Jerome's Latin Vulgate
- Augustine of Hippo (Confessions, City of God)
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Saint Patrick in Ireland
- Council of Chalcedon: Christ fully God and fully human
- Oriental Orthodox churches (Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopian, Syriac)
The medieval church
- Benedict and Western monasticism
- The papacy: the popes and medieval Christendom
- Rise of Islam and the Arab conquests
- Charlemagne crowned emperor by the pope
- Baptism of Kievan Rus' under Prince Vladimir
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Great Schism: East and West split
- The Crusades
- First Crusade takes Jerusalem
- Gothic cathedrals (Notre-Dame, Chartres)
- Francis of Assisi and the Franciscans
- The sacraments (baptism, Eucharist and the seven)
- The Inquisition
- Thomas Aquinas and the Summa Theologiae
- Avignon papacy and the Western Schism
- John Wycliffe and the first English Bible
- Jan Hus
- Ottomans take Constantinople
- Gutenberg Bible: the first major printed book
- Christianity comes to the Americas: conquest and missions
Reformation
- Martin Luther
- Sale of indulgences
- Luther's Ninety-five Theses
- The Protestant Reformation
- Faith alone, Scripture alone (Reformation principles)
- Luther's German Bible
- Anabaptists (Mennonites, Amish)
- William Tyndale's English New Testament
- Henry VIII and the Church of England
- John Calvin and Reformed Protestantism
- Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
- Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation
- Presbyterian (Reformed) churches
- Matteo Ricci, Jesuit in China
- King James Version of the Bible
- Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia
- Puritans and the Pilgrims
- Galileo's trial: the Church and the new science
Revivals & missions
- The Enlightenment: reason questions faith
- The Great Awakenings (revivals)
- John Wesley and Methodism
- Christianity comes to Korea
- Wilberforce and the Christian fight against slavery
- Religious freedom: the First Amendment
- William Carey and the modern missionary movement
- Korean Catholic martyrs
- St. Andrew Kim Taegon, first Korean priest
- Darwin's evolution and the faith debate
- First Vatican Council: papal infallibility
- Modern biblical criticism
- First Korean Bible translations
- Underwood and Appenzeller: first Protestant missionaries
- Rerum Novarum: Catholic social teaching
Christianity today
- Pentecostalism and the Azusa Street Revival
- Pyongyang Great Revival
- Christianity's center shifts to the Global South
- Fundamentalism and the Scopes trial
- Communism and the persecution of churches
- March 1st Movement: Christians in Korea's independence
- Nazism, the Holocaust and the churches
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church
- Ecumenism and the World Council of Churches
- Billy Graham
- Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity
- Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights
- Yoido Full Gospel Church
- Secularization in the West
- South Korea's church boom
- Second Vatican Council
- Pope John Paul II
- Christianity in China and the house churches
- Clergy sexual abuse crisis
- Pope Francis
- Pope Leo XIV