Church History: 10/19/2022

Greg Allison’s Historical Theology. Zondervan, 2011. (435-438). Prof. Allison leads us through the three Cappadocian Fathers—Basil, Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa, notably affirming the full deity of the Spirit over against the Arians. We hear several quotes from Augustine’s double procession views which are later adopted by the Third Council of Toledo (589) and which were incorporated into Latin and Protestant liturgies. This occasioned a split with the East which exists to this day. McNiell, John Thomas. The History and Character of Calvinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. (237-240). Dr. McNeill tours the background to the French Huguenots by retailing the political aspect—Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438) for a largely independent church free of papal taxation, various conflicts with Popes over northern Italians lands, and the emergence of a monarchial church with the King appointing 10 archbishops, 83 bishops, and 527 heads of religious houses. The Luther debate of 15ish April 1521 in Worms is noted along with Jacque Lefevre d’Etaples, Briconnet, and others of reformist bent. That is rather crushed with the Sorbonne’s approval along with various book burnings. French Reformed Churchmen were forced to flee.