Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in church history, earliest first.
- The Council of Nicaea condemns Arius
- Gregory the Great sends a mission to England
- Papal legates and the patriarch of Constantinople excommunicate each other
- Anthony withdraws into the Egyptian desert
- The Council of Chalcedon defines two natures in one person
- The Rule of St Benedict is composed
Hints
- Desert monasticism precedes the great councils.
- Anthony c. 270s onward, Nicaea 325, Chalcedon 451, the Rule c. 530s, the English mission 596–597, the excommunications 1054.
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- Anthony withdraws into the Egyptian desert
- The Council of Nicaea condemns Arius
- The Council of Chalcedon defines two natures in one person
- The Rule of St Benedict is composed
- Gregory the Great sends a mission to England
- Papal legates and the patriarch of Constantinople excommunicate each other
Why
The gap between Chalcedon and 1054 is six hundred years, which is a useful corrective: the separation of East and West is slow, and for most of that span the two halves are in communion while disagreeing loudly about bread, beards and creeds.
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