Lecture Notes Outline
Eastern Orthodoxy takes shape
- Fall of the western Roman Empire; the remaining eastern Roman Empire is known as “Byzantine,” with its capital at Constantinople
- Though its territory would wax and wane, this eastern Roman Empire persisted for another 1000 years after the fall of Rome
- Its stability provided the center for Eastern Orthodoxy to develop
- Emperor Justinian (6th century)
- Emperor Heraclius and the rise of Islam (7th century)
- Maximus the Confessor (7th century) and the final Christological debates
- John of Damascus (8th century) and the iconoclast controversy
- Eastern Orthodox prayer and devotion
Early Christian Missions to the East and South
- The Church of the East and the evangelization of Asia
- Ethiopia becomes Christian (4th century onward)
- The Church of the East and the evangelization of Asia
- Ethiopia becomes Christian (4th century onward)