Create an ontology for church history data
Sean Boisen
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Organize and categorize major movements, heresies, people, places, councils and events, etc. from roughly AD 100 to the present.
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What does "from the church era" mean?0
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@SineNomine after the NT period, to the present. We currently use 100 AD as the start of the Ante-Nicene Church era.0
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@sean-boisen So "church era" means AD 100-> now?0
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@SineNomine We're trying to find useful bins for organizing information, and this seemed like an approximate date where events stop being about the biblical narrative and its most immediate aftermaths, and start being about the next phase of the church. That's not a theological claim, just a pragmatic tool, and maybe we'll make some adjustments: so you shouldn't read too much into this date. I suppose we could also say "after the close of the biblical narrative".0
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@sean-boisen My question was really about terminology rather than timing. (The phrase "since AD 100" makes a lot more sense to me than the term "church era".)0
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I'm a huge fan of this idea. I teach church history and these topics, organized in a data set, would be very useful. I would also like to have the ability to easily create graphics from the data. Much of this information is new to students (especially early and medieval church history) and graphics would go a long way to help explain the history of ideas, theologies, heresies, and doctrine.0
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Great idea0
