The early church and the Fathers 100–500

1. c. 110The letters of Ignatius of Antioch
2. c. 180Irenaeus, Against Heresies
3. c. 230Origen, On First Principles
4. 325The Council of Nicaea
5. 381The Council of Constantinople and the Nicene CreedCreed
6. c. 397Augustine, Confessions
7. c. 405Jerome's Latin Bible
8. 413–426Augustine, The City of God
9. 431The Council of Ephesus
10. 451The Council of ChalcedonCreed

The medieval church 500–1500

1. c. 530The Rule of Benedict
2. 590Gregory the Great becomes bishop of Rome
3. 787The Second Council of Nicaea
4. 1054East and West part
5. 1098Anselm, Why God Became Man
6. c. 1155Peter Lombard, the Sentences
7. 1265–1274Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologiae
8. 1378–1417The Great Schism of the papacy
9. c. 1382The Wycliffite English Bible
10. 1415Jan Hus burned at Constance
11. 1516Erasmus's Greek New Testament

The Reformation 1517–1600

1. 1517Luther's Ninety-five Theses
2. 1521Melanchthon, Loci Communes
3. 1525The first believers' baptisms in Zurich
4. 1527The Schleitheim Confession
5. 1530The Augsburg Confession
6. 1536Calvin's Institutes, first edition
7. 1545–1563The Council of Trent
8. 1549The Book of Common Prayer
9. 1563The Heidelberg CatechismCreed
10. 1571The Thirty-nine Articles

After the Reformation 1600–1900

1. 1610The Remonstrance
2. 1619The Canons of DortCreed
3. 1646The Westminster ConfessionCreed
4. 1675Spener, Pia Desideria
5. 1678Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
6. 1738Wesley at Aldersgate Street
7. 1741Edwards preaches 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
8. 1792William Carey and modern missions
9. 1799Schleiermacher, On Religion
10. 1885Underwood and Appenzeller land at Chemulpo
11. 1887The Ross Korean New Testament
12. 1900Harnack, What Is Christianity?