Time Frame of Christian Education

2. B. TIME-FRAME OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
• Jesus of Nazareth
• 3 BC - 27 AD
• Prior to Jesus Christ, the Hebrews were taught by God through the Teachers of the
Law, in synagogues, and in a very formal atmosphere. But, when Jesus entered the
world, he began teaching others at 12 in the Temple, and during his ministry, his
authoritative, personal, and transformational teaching caused a large stir in the
hearts and minds of the Hebrews. He used various methods of teaching, taught the
people in a way that was relevant to the audience, and used every moment in his
life as teachable moments. This should show the modern Christian teacher how
important it is to teach outside the classroom and live a life that reflects Christ.

3. JESUS IN THE
SYNAGOGUE AT
NAZARETH

4. WHO ARE THE
HEBREWS?
The first person to be called a
Hebrew was Abraham, and the
name commonly refers to his
descendants, known as the
Jewish people. The word for
Hebrew used in the Bible is ‫עברי‬
(pronounced "Ivri")

5. WHO ARE THE
TEACHERS OF THE
LAW?
The word 'rabbi' means 'my
master', and is used by students
to address teachers of the Jewish
Torah. In the New Testament it
describes the community religious
teachers of that time, who helped
people understand the scriptures.

6. MATTHEW 23:2-3
2 “The teachers of religious law
and the Pharisees are the official
interpreters of the law of Moses.
3 So practice and obey whatever
they tell you, but don’t follow their
example. For they don’t practice
what they teach.

7. B. TIME-FRAME OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
• Paul
• 5 AD - 67 AD
• Paul's teaching style was expedient, bold, and practical: he knew the importance
and urgency of the gospel and how little time we have on earth to teach/learn. His
very direct but personal style of teaching, mixed with the practicality of his
message, influences heavily the way Christian educators form their lessons and
messages.

8. 5 LESSONS WE
CAN LEARN FROM
PAUL THE
APOSTLE
•He didn't live to please man.
•He was humble. ...
•He was selfless. ...
•He was focused on God's
calling in his life. ...
•He lived with eternity in mind.

9. B. TIME-FRAME OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
• Ignatius of Antioch
• 35 AD - 107 AD
•
• This disciple of John was the Bishop of Antioch. During his life, he wrote letters to some the major
churches across Asia Minor, fought Docetism, and lays the foundation for what would eventually
become the papacy. He also taught with a style that is a sort of forerunner to WWJD?.
• Justin Martyr
• 100 AD - 165 AD
•
• Justin Martyr was a Stoic turned Christian. While he was alive, he started a school in Rome, wrote a
defense of the Christian faith, and wrote a work that aimed to prove Jesus was the Messiah to the Jews.
He stressed having a defense of one's faith and having the boldness to share that with anyone, which
was probably what led to his beheading in 165 AD.

10. BORN AROUND THE YEAR
50 IN SYRIA, IGNATIUS
WAS AN APOSTOLIC
FATHER OF THE CHURCH.
In 117 he was sentenced to death
by the Emperor Trajan and
arrested in Antioch. He was
brought, on a slow journey that
lasted months, to the circus in
Rome to be devoured by lions.
The Roman emperor hoped to
make an example of Ignatius and
discourage the spread of
Christianity.

11. DOCETIS
M
is an ancient heresy that says
Jesus was not fully human.
According to Docetism,
he seemed to be human, but
because Jesus was fully divine,
he had no physical body. The
form people saw was essentially a
ghost.

12. PAPACY
-the office and jurisdiction of
the bishop of Rome, the pope
(Latin papa, from Greek pappas,
“father”), who presides over the
central government of the Roman
Catholic Church, the largest of the
three major branches of
Christianity.

13. JUSTIN MARTYR
When the prefect threatened them
with death, Justin said, "If we are
punished for the sake of our Lord
Jesus Christ, we hope to be
saved."

14. WHAT IS STOICISM?
Stoicism is a mindset and
philosophy that's based on the
logical premise that your mind
determines your perceptions,
which can be trained. According
to the Stoics, it's not the outer
world that's the problem, but
rather your internal world.

15. B. TIME-FRAME OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
• Clement of Alexandria
• 150 AD - 215 AD
• From the center of Greek philosophy, Athens, came Clement, the First Scholar of the
Church. He is the teacher of many other Church Fathers, including Origen and
Alexander, the Bishop of Jerusalem. He integrates his theology with Greek philosophy,
and stresses God's love, believing that knowledge does not matter if it is not wrapped
in love.
• Tertullian
• 150 AD - 230 AD
• The Apologist of the West, Tertullian was trained as a lawyer and used his secular
training to benefit the Kingdom. He did not agree with the mixing of Greek philosophy
and Christian theology that Clement of Alexandria was encouraging, but rather
believed in the simplicity of the gospel.

16. ST. CLEMENT OF
ALEXANDRIA
Like the pistic Christians (those who
claimed that people were saved by
faith, which was to be demonstrated
in legalistic and moral terms),
Clement held that faith was the
basis of salvation, but, unlike
them, he claimed that faith was also
the basis of gnōsis, a spiritual and
mystical knowledge.

17. TERTULLIAN, FATHER
OF LATIN THEOLOGY
Tertullian is known in church
history as the father of Latin
theology, as he was the first
church leader to write his works in
Latin.

18. B. TIME-FRAME OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
• Origen
• 185 AD - 254 AD
• The successor of Clement of Alexandria, Origen was a "guru of the allegorical method."
His multi-translation of the Old Testament, the Hexapla, could be considered one of the
earliest Study Bibles, with multiple versions of the Old Testament next to each other,
along with a commentary that he wrote, the first complete systematic theology of the
Bible.
• 325
• The Council of Nicea was held in order to establish the doctrines that all Christians
should believe in, and from that comes the Nicaean Creed, a major part of Christian
Education for many decades.

19. ALLEGORICAL
INTERPRETATION
OF THE BIBLE
The word “allegory” is the Greek
word “allegoreo” and is used only
once in the New Testament. It
basically means to speak
figuratively. It is used to explain
something while using the image
of something else.

20. FIRST COUNCIL OF
NICAEA
The Council of Nicaea was the first
council in the history of the
Christian church that was intended
to address the entire body of
believers. It was convened by the
emperor Constantine to resolve the
controversy of Arianism, a doctrine
that held that Christ was not divine
but was a created being.

21. B. TIME-FRAME OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
• Jerome
• 340 AD - 399 AD
• A Roman theologian, Jerome was commissioned to write a Latin translation of the Bible. Known as the Hammer, he was
barbaric in his verbal attacks on the allegorical method, defending rather a very literal method of reading the Bible.
• John Chrysotom
• 345 AD - 407 AD
• "The Silver-Tongue Preacher," John Chrysotom was the first Christian educator to see the importance of teaching the youth
of the Church, finding value in storytelling and playing games, and structuring the curriculum to the proper scope and
sequence of the children's growth.
• Augustine
• 354 AD - 450 AD
• A Roman citizen living in Africa, Augustine taught Rhetoric in Rome and Milan before becoming the bishop of Hippo. He
was a major apologist and taught on the importance of faith, emphasizing God's sovereignty. One of the biggest teaching
contributions he gave us is the Augustinian Order of Monks, from which many other Church fathers and educators would
come from.

22. JEROME
Jerome is the second most voluminous
writer (after Augustine of Hippo) in
ancient Latin Christianity. In the
Catholic Church, he is recognized
as the patron saint of translators,
librarians and encyclopedists. He
acquired a knowledge of Hebrew by
studying with a Jew who converted to
Christianity.

23. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
The word ‘Chrysostom’ means
‘golden mouthed.’ This name was
given to him after he died
because all his sermons were
eloquent and very lovely to hear.

24. AUGUSTINE
He is considered the patron saint of
brewers, printers, theologians, sore
eyes, and a number of cities and
dioceses.
It is a historic fact that girls from the
ages of 9–14 were married off in
Europe, Asia, Africa and
America. Saint Augustine ~350AD
married a 10 year old girl.