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The Early Biblical Church — the apostolic root (c. AD 33)
tradition
The one Church as it began: the apostles and the first disciples at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out and about three thousand were added in a day (Acts 2). The root every tradition below descends from — one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism (Ephesians 4:4-6). The root every tradition below descends from; the branches that follow are its visible, datable divisions — the first enduring ones at the Councils of Ephesus (431) and Chalcedon (451), then the great East–West Schism (1054) and the Reformation — gathered and cited, never judged.
- on the shelf of → The churches — one Lord, many traditions, calibrated — the root of the one Church, from which the traditions descend
- part of → The Church through history — the descent of the traditions from the apostolic root — the apostolic root of the Church
- enables → The ecumenical creeds — the shared ground — the Nicene Creed (325/381) — the confession the traditions broadly hold in common, the cen
- enables → Eastern Orthodoxy — the Chalcedonian Church of the first millennium; the East after the East–West (Great) Schi
- enables → Roman Catholicism — the Chalcedonian Church of the first millennium; the West (Rome) after the East–West (Grea
- enables → The Church of the East — the East-Syriac tradition (distinct after AD 431) — the ancient Church of the East (East-Syriac, called 'Nestorian') — distinct after the Coun
- enables → Oriental Orthodoxy — the non-Chalcedonian (Miaphysite) churches (distinct after AD 451) — Oriental Orthodoxy (Miaphysite) — Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Malankara
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