*HISTORY
HISTORY repeats itself, ie. fall of Satan and fall of Adam and Eve and creation with the Atonement, light out of darkness. (Paradise3, p109)
God pre-exists because goodness is the uncaused cause.
Holy Spirit split into itself and Father which then begot the Son. (Randy)
God created spiritual beings, Angels and Fallen Angels.
God created materialism w/ Big Bang and continues through evolution. (Randy)
1500 - In India, Hinduism's law of karma is a law of cause and effect which dictates one's position in life (caste) depending upon one's conduct (thru reincarnation)
753 - Rome founded by brothers Romulus and Remus
500 - A Hindu monk, Siddhartha became known as the Buddha "the Enlightened One" taught that through enlightenment one could free himself from the illusions of the material world and achieve nirvana - eternal bliss.
551 - In China, Confucius emphasized the development of social order through
formal education and etiquette.
600 - Taoism, Lao-tze taught the concept of Tao "the way" of life as cyclical,
(reincarnation, day and night, seasons) and
(yin - passivity, yang - activity) ie. hot and cold
- Shinto
500 ‑ HELLENISTIC (GREEK) AGE
- Adam and Eve
- Cain and Abel and Seth
- Noah
- Pantheism is the belief that God is simply all things in the universe
530 ‑ Pythagoras
- Socrates ‑ everyone person has full knowledge of ultimate truth
contained within the soul and needs only to be spurred to
conscious reflection in order to become aware of it.
‑ no man does evil voluntarily
- Plato ‑ truth, beauty, and justice coincide in the Idea of the Good.
This world is essentially an illusion, but its significance is to point
toward and prepare the way for a higher reality. See Augustine.
- Aristotle ‑ defined the basic concepts & principles of logic, biology,
physics, and psychology. Everyting real is a combination of
potentiality and actuality. See Aquinas.
- Alexandria ‑ tutored by Aristotle
- Antioch
- Babylonia
- Abraham
- Isaac
- Jacob
- Joseph
- Moses
- Joshua
- Samuel
- David
- Solomon
- Temple built
- Elijah
- Isaiah
- Josiah
- Jerusalem destroyed
- Temple rebuilt
100 ‑ ROMAN EMPIRE AGE
5 ‑ Jesus borned (teaches that "God is Love" and repent to recv grace)
AD 7 ‑ Jesus age 12 at temple
25 ‑ Jesus baptised and starts his public ministry
28 ‑ Easter Sunday ‑ Resurrection
‑ Ascention (40 days after resurrection)
‑ The Coming of the Holy Spirit (10 days after ascention)
‑ Paul (Saul) blinded going to Damascus
50 ‑ 63 - Paul's letters are written
60 - Gnosticism (those in the know) denies the ultimate reality of matter
and could do in the body whatever they wished because only the spirit
counted, and it was separate from the body, and believed that man is
destined for reunion with the divine essence from which each soul came.
63 - Death of Paul on Rome (June 29th)
67 - Death of Peter in Rome
68 - Death of Emperor Nero
70 - Jerusalem amd temple destroyed by Roman armies
75 - Gospel of (John) Mark (thru Peter) written for Jews
80 - Peter's letters are written by disciples
85 ‑ Gospel of Matthew (Apostle) written for Gentiles
85 ‑ Gospel of Luke (Syrian from Antioch & friend of Paul) written
95 ‑ Gospel of John (apostle) written for Jews
325 ‑ Nicaea Council (Nicene Creed)
330 ‑ Emperor Constantine moves capital from Rome to Constaninople
381 ‑ Council of Constantinople (Apostles' Creed??)
413 ‑ St. Augustine (from Plato) argued that religious faith and philosophical
understanding are complementary, rather than opposed, and that one
must "believe in order to understand and understand in order to
believe". A person can not develop the natural virtues of courage,
justice, temperence, and wisdom without the religious virtues of
faith, hope, and charity which require devine grace to be attained.
In The City of God, Book XIX Chapter 4, nor can we of ourselves even
live rightly, unless He who gives us faith helps us to believe and
pray, for IT TAKES FAITH TO BELIEVE THAT WE NEED HIS HELP.
Book XII Chapter 6, For pride is the beginning of all sin.
451 ‑ Council of Chalcedon
- Islam
- Muhammad (Mecca and Medina?)
- Fall of Roman Empire
500 ‑ MIDDLE AGES
800 ‑ Charlemagne crowned Western Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III
1054 - Church of Rome breaks away from Constantinople
1075 ‑ Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Emperor Henry IV
1095 ‑ 1st crusade
1100 - Chinese and Japanese Zen (meaning meditation) is the comtemplation of
one's essential nature to the exclusion of all else is the only way to
achieve pure enlightenment.
1202 ‑ 4th crusade
1209 ‑ Pope Innocent III excommunicates King John of England
1309 ‑ 1377 papacy fled to Avignon during Babylonian captivity
1377 ‑ 1417 Great Schism (2 to 3 claimants to the papal throne)
1400 ‑ RENAISSANCE AGE
1453 ‑ Constantinople falls to the Turks
1200 ‑ St. Thomas Aguinas combined Aristotle science & Augustine theology.
Since we are intellectual beings, our proper manner of tending toward
God is by knowing him, not as w/ Augustine & Bonaventure by loving him.
Since we have a natural desire for perfect happiness, which can't be
satisfied in this life, it must be capable of being satisfied after
death. Therefore, we must be capable of knowing God after we die.
However, theology is not religion and the spirit does not live by
explanation alone. Thomism can transmit no light unless there is a
light shining through it.
- St. Francis of Assisi
- Dominic
1217 - 1274, St. Bonaventure was born in Italy (cross between Augustine and
St. Francis). We are born with a dim and indistinct awareness of God;
through the "Mind's Journey to God" this becomes more distinct and
explicit. BUT KNOWLEDGE IS ONLY ONE FORM OF UNION WITH GOD AND NOT THE
HIGHEST OR MOST PERFECT. LOVE CAN ATTAIN WHAT THE INTELLECT CANNOT.
- Spinoza
- Chaucer
- Hobbes
- Milton
- Newton
- Locke
- Berkeley
- Hume
- Fielding
- Kant
- Boswell
- Hegel
- Goethe
- Tolstoy
- Darwin
- Freud
‑ Martin Luther
- Henry VIII
‑ Calvin
1545 ‑ 1563 Council of Trent
‑ Galileo
1596 - ???? Descartes
1623 - 1662 Blaise Pascal, mathematican, physicist, philosopher (Jansenism)
revelation can be comprehended only by faith which in turn is
justified by revelation
- Fatima/Lourdes aparition of Mary
1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, thousands of Huguents were killed
1594 - Henry IV returned peace to Paris
1852 - Napoleon III rebuilt Paris
- Guadalupe
- Mormon founded by John Smith
- Amish - serenity
- Seventh Day Adventist - faith
- Jehovah's Witness - courage
MODERN AGE
‑ 1st Vatican Council
1904 - 1984, Fr. Karl Rahner - Thomistic espistemology (study of knowledge)
from a transcendental viewpoint. Human spirit is the act of the body
and soul, therefore, not totally subject to the will. Thus we sometimes
abandon our best intentions. Salvation is simply a continuation of what
has taken place during one's life. Heaven and hell remaining whatever
you have made of yourself, forever.
1962 ‑ 2nd Vatican Council - the entire work and spirit was a vindication of
Rahner's way of doing theology.
‑ Martin Luther King, Jr.
1978 ‑ Pope John Paul II appointed
Anti-Christ
2nd Coming
Millenium
Last Judgement