Disputes over the nature of Jesus

• are God the Father and God the Son equal?
  • are Father/Son/Holy-Spirit completely equal?
• is Christ fully man, or fully god, or somehow both?
  • born human, but later became divine (adoptionism)
  • only fully god (monophysitism)
  • fully god and fully human (miaphysitism)
  • human body, devine mind (Apollinarism)
  • You thought three-parts-in-one was weird? Try two-parts-inside-one-of-the-three-parts, and one of the parts is fully human, and the other part is fully divine! (Dyophysitism, hypostatic union)
  • more (it never ends!)
    • Arian controversy
    • Homoousian
      • Homoiousian
      • Heteroousianism
    • Oneness vs Trinity
• did the Son of God exist before he was born? (i.e. the Son is part of the trinity, and the trinity is supposed to be eternal, yet Jesus had a birth date)
• are God the Father and God the Son composed of the same or from different substances?
• Nontrinitarianism
  • Unitarianism vs Binitarianism vs Trinitarianism
  • Arianism, a major sect of Christianity in the 4th century

Other disagreements/schisms

• whether or not circumcision was required
• whether or not the original sin forever tainted mankind

spread/popularization of Christianity

• [?] Christianization of the Germanic peoples
• [710] Christianization of Scandinavia
  • Christianisation of Iceland
• [867, 980] Christianization of Kievan Rus'
  • Christianization of the Rus' Khaganate
• [966] Baptism of Poland
• [1147] Christianization of the West Slavs
• [1387] Christianization of Lithuania

Notable sects

• lots of Gnostic ones
• lots of Esoteric ones
• some Mystery ones
• Basilideans
• Bosnian Church
• Marcionism
• Church of Caucasian Albania

See also

• periods
  • 30 - 110: Apostolic Age
  • 30 - 325: Early Christianity
• History of early Christianity
• List of events in early Christianity
• Schisms among the Jews
• Category:Ancient Christian denominations
• Early Christian hereseys
• Folk Christianity