Antiquity
Ancient Rome (509 BC - 476)
Dark Age:Europe, 4th century - 900

Middle Ages (Europe, 5th century - 15th century)
East-West Shism or Grea Schism(1378 - 1417) Crusades 1095–1291
Islamic Golden Age: mid 8th century to mid 13th century
Islamic philosophy, science, and technology were more advanced than in Western Europe
; Renaissance of the 12th century
Scholasticism
Monastic Reform
Waldensians and the Humiliati
Franciscans and the Dominicans,


Western Schism or Papel Schism(1378 - 1417). Latin translations of the 12th century fed a passion for Aristotelian philosophy and Islamic science that is frequently referred to as the Early Modern (Europe, 14th century - 18th century)
Renaissance
roughly the 14th through the 17th century,
1517 Reformation
followers of the humanist method, including Erasmus, Zwingli, Thomas More, Martin Luther, and John Calvin. ENLIGHTENMENT

Reason as primary authority
deism: prominent in Great Britain, France, and the United States in the 17th and 18th centuries
Liberal Christianity
within late 18th, 19th and 20th century Christianity.
Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, John Shelby Spong, and Douglas Ottati.
Biblical Criticism