APRIL 10
A FEUD BETWEEN NESTORIUS AND CYRIL SPLIT THE CHURCH (428)
“For although professing Christians acknowledge this Work of the Holy Spirit , and all that it includes, and all that flows from it, yet the various gr...”
Kuyper, Abraham. The Work of the Holy Spirit. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1900.
Good Friday (1839)
Stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted—Isaiah 53:4 (ESV).Stricken, smitten, and afflicted,See him dying on the tree!’Ti...
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Co-emperors Honorius and Theodosius II forbid Jews of the Roman Empire to purchase or receive Christian slaves, although they may retain slaves who were already Christian or who came to them under an inheritance. Any attempt to convert a Christian is made a capital offense.
Authority for the date: Wisconsin Lutheran College. Imperial Laws and Letters Involving Religion, AD 364–395.428
Nestorius is made Patriarch of Constantinople. His attacks on the use of the term “Theotokos” (God-bearer) to describe the Virgin Mary will lead to clashes and get him declared a heretic. He will not deny Jesus’s nature as God, but feels the term challenges the important reality of Christ’s human nature.
Authority for the date: Frend, W. H. C. The Early Church. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1965.1868
Listeners who hear the first complete public performance of Brahms’ Requiem in the cathedral of Bremen this Good Friday recognize it as a masterpiece. The master composer has taken his texts from the German Lutheran translation of the Bible and focuses on consoling the living.
Authority for the date: Standard Encyclopedias.1952
Watchman Nee is arrested in Shanghai. This Chinese Christian becomes well-known in the West when his many books are published.
Authority for the date: Kinnear, Angus. Against the Tide. Christian Literature Crusade, 1992.1997
Death in Seattle of Betty Greene, a Women’s Air Force Service pilot during World War II. She had founded the Christian Airmen’s Missionary Fellowship in 1945, later known as the Missionary Aviation Fellowship. After leaving the airforce, she flew for Wycliffe Bible Translators around the world.
Authority for the date: http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/7976013429.html