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20th century |
| - serial monogamy refused
"a woman is joined to her husband for as long as he lives"
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19th century |
| - neo-pentecostalism missing
- conversion theology absent
"Salvation Prayer" goes away
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18th century |
| - modernism absent
- income tithe collection vanishes
churches receiving money from States
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17th century |
| - revivalism absent
- thoughts of a national "just war" now estranged
"kings & rulers are appointed by God"
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16th century |
| - reason no longer elevated above divine revelation
- popular civil authority no longer above the church
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15th century |
| - absent now is Christianity wrapped into colonial expansion
- monasteries no longer drawing upon secularly interested
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14th century |
| - denominations & sects no longer considered as faithful to Christ
- Protestantism & Christian Humanism unknown
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13th century |
| - voluntarism (church dependence upon the will of man) fades from view
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12th century |
| - natural philosophy no longer bracketing faith
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11th century |
| - bishops/overseers no longer giving fealty-oath to the king
- medieval inquisition absent
- theological argumentation now much lesser
- no longer appealing to reason as authority over faith
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10th century |
| - practice of plenary indulgence absent
- no longer calling assembly or communion for memorial of the deceased
- holy wars/crusades against infidels unknown
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9th century |
| - abbots/monasteries no longer under direction of a pope
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7th century |
| - scholasticism no longer primary in the resolution of disagreement
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6th century |
| - practice of penance fades
- forcible conversion no longer a practice
- Islam [meaning: submission to God] now absent in the world
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5th century |
| - East-West division disappears
- ideal of autonomous local church vanishes
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4th century |
| - faith & philosophy no longer betrothed
- regular preaching no longer administered to saints
- firm Bible canonization absent
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3rd century |
| - no longer worshiping [bowing to] the idols/wonders of State or society
- civil legality of Christ-following vanishes
- dedicated church buildings absent
- State funding of churches now absent
- ascetics/monks no longer organized under an abbot
- strict monogamy fades into monogamy & moderate polygany
- doctrine no longer enforced
Nicean fixation with orthodoxy absent
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2nd century |
| - clergy-laity separation absent
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1st century |
| - hierarchical church organization vanishes
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