The program of the course of lectures on the History of the Universal Church.

Part I.

№1.

1. Pentecost is the birth of the Church.

2. Who are the saints? The Transfiguration of Human Nature by the Holy Spirit.

№2.

1. The life of the first Church. The Royal Priesthood.

2. The first sin that afflicted the Church (Ananias and Sapphira). Change in the state of the Church.

№3.

1. The beginning of Church administration and church hierarchy. Bishops, presbyters, deacons.

2. The ministry of Church administration, the nature of this service of the first Church.

№4.

Jerusalem Apostolic Council (15) ~48-50 AD

1. The First Apostolic Council of Jerusalem. The concept of conciliarity of the Church.

2. Christ's Witnesses in Church Society.

№5.

1. Sporadic persecution of the Church. (Sporadic – wake up as disputes – mass persecutions) 64 – 363 AD (64 AD – Nero's persecutions, 363 – the year of the death of Julian the Apostate).

2. The service of the martyrs of the Church of Christ.

№ 6.

1. Continuation of the era of sporadic persecution during the decline of the Roman Empire (117 – 311). The Edict of Milan in 313.

2. The service and feat of Christian apologists. Difference from martyrs.

№7.