heresies/councils

god pls

Arianism

Jesus is a created being + not of the same substance as God the Father.

Gnosticism

material world is evil + salvation can only be reached via secret knowledge

Docetism

Jesus only appeared to suffer + be human

Marcionism

rejects Old Testament

Manichaeism

matter is evil; good immaterial god and evil material god

Novationists/Donatists

very rigorous; condemned “lapsi”

Council of Nicaea

condemned Arianism + Nicene Creed

Constantinople I

HS is divine (Cappadocian fathers)

Ephesus

Nestorianism/Theotokos

Chalcedon

Monophysitism

Constantinople II

Three Chapters Controversy: Nestorianism, Monophysitism, imperial-papal relations

Constantinople III

Monothelitism (Pope Honorius I)

Nicaea II

Iconoclasm

Constantinople IV

Photian Controversy/East-West schism/Photius

Lateran I

Investiture/Simony/Clerical Celibacy