Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History. On this

episode we are returning to our theme of trending and this time we are going to

look at what is trending in the sixth century. Well one of the main things that

was trending was the spread of Christianity. It was many many episodes ago that

we had our good friend Dr. Sinclair Ferguson on to talk about the missionary and

devours to his beloved Scotland. The efforts of the missionaries Ninian and

Columbus as they took Christianity to Scotland. That was just part of the missionary

expansion. There was also the expansion to the British peoples and this was

through Augustin, not the famous Augustin but the Augustin of Britain. That

expansion was not only northward into the British Isles but it was also eastward

into the Middle Eastern region and the Middle Eastern world. It expanded far

southern and to more of Africa and then also westward and into France and

Spain. So that Christianity that was there around the Mediterranean basin just

kept working its way out and during the five hundreds there was a significant

amount of expansion of Christianity. Also trending in the five hundreds was the

second council of Constantinople. This met from May to June of 553. It was on the

controversy of the Monophysites. Now it started off as a controversy and after

the council it was declared a heresy. The Monophysites believed that Jesus was

only one nature. This is actually the Greek word Mono and Physite that means one

nature. If we go back to Calcedon and 451 in the Calcedonian Creed we remember

there that Jesus was declared very God a very God very man a very man and that

he is these two natures, truly man, truly God, two natures in one person. The

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