Where Did the Presbyterian Church Come From?
Presbyterian is not a doctrine but a form of government, and the name says so. Where it began and what it was reacting against.
Church HistoryWhere Did the Anglican Church Come From?
Henry VIII wanting a divorce is right about the occasion and wrong about the cause. What the 1530s actually changed in England.
Church HistoryWhere Did the Mennonites and Amish Come From?
The Amish are not a separate religion from the Mennonites. Both descend from one act in a Zurich house in 1525, and divided in 1693.
Church HistoryWhere Did the Lutheran Church Come From?
Martin Luther asked his followers not to use his name. How a dispute over indulgences in 1517 became a separate church.
Church HistoryWhere Did the Eastern Orthodox Church Come From?
Orthodoxy claims no founder and no founding date. How the Christian world came to be divided between East and West, and why 1054 misleads.
Church HistoryWhere Did the Catholic Church Come From?
The church began as local congregations with no legal standing. This traces how it became the religion of the empire and then claimed authority over every ruler in Christendom.
Church HistoryWhat Are the Seven Deadly Sins?
The list is not in Scripture. It runs from Evagrius in the Egyptian desert through John Cassian to Gregory the Great, who reduced eight vices to seven.
Church HistoryWhy Easter Moves: The Computus Controversy and the Synod of Whitby
Easter moves because a Nicene rule ties it to the moon, and rival tables for predicting that moon divided the church until Whitby in 664.
Early Church (1st–5th Century)