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| Commitment to the Once Creator God! |
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| Jewish History to the time of Jesus |
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| Began with Assyrians 722, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans...backwards |
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| Nature and Structure of Judaism in the NT Era |
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| Torah, Apocalypticism, Messianism, Palestine vs. the Diaspora, parties and Sects |
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| Classical Era of Ancient Greece |
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| Greek Ideals- Health, wealth, youth, beauty |
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| Alexander the Great's Conquests |
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| Philip of Macedon unites all the greek city- states, defeats persians, opens greek way of life to all, unites his realm with a single currency and language, spreads greek culture by founding cities |
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| non exclusive, sophisticated, intellectual life was advanced, politics were democratic, language was universal |
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| Core Values of Roman Empire |
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| Distinct people unite as one, favor by gods, historical conciousness |
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| What did orthodox believers emphasize? |
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| Lordship of jesus, community of the church, unity of jew and gentile, centrality of the apostles |
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| Myths of Universal Orthodoxy |
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| Apostles didn't agree on everything, didn't possess a full understanding of Christian Doctrine, Orthodox Christianity wasn't the first form in every place |
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| Myths of Radical Diversity |
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| There was no such thing as a mainline, but only competing "christianities." FALSE It's possible to identify a central type of christianity which was more faithful to what the apostles actually taught |
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| Varieties of Early Christianity |
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| Pauline, Marcionite, Petrine, Johannine, Montanist, Jewish, Gnostic, Catholic |
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| people of the land, who spoke aramaic; were leagalistic, conservative |
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| people of the land, who spoke aramaic; were leagalistic, conservative |
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| a minority who spoke greek, open to the wider world |
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| a minority who spoke greek, open to the wider world |
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| James "the just" half-bro of the lord |
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| associated with a version of Christianity that wanted to retain its jewish character. Gnostics liked james for his asceticism. |
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| James "the just" half-bro of the lord |
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| associated with a version of Christianity that wanted to retain its jewish character. Gnostics liked james for his asceticism. |
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| James "the just" half-bro of the lord |
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| associated with a version of Christianity that wanted to retain its jewish character. Gnostics liked james for his asceticism. |
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| Jewish leaders persecuted the christians, cursed the minim, Christians wrote adversus judaeos literature, Christian leaders were sometiems anit-semitic |
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| Same as Elder, based on the synagogue; elders and a synagogue ruler, multiple leaders, with certian ones sometimes bearing special authority |
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| There is only one God, The Word is called His Son, He preached a new law and a new promise of the kingdom of heaven..... |
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| Reasons for Persecution in the Early Church |
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Jewish persecution- deviant in doctrine, active in evangelism and threatening to the Jew's protected status.
Roman Persecution- culture valued beneficence; you should give homage to the powerful, and they in turn should lavish blessings upon you. |
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Caesar Augustus was seen as the "son of God"
The Roman Senate inscribed Augustus among the heavenly gods after his death. |
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| Christian's pose what threats? |
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| political, social, and economic |
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| Christianity under State Ban, but not Sought Out |
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| Trajan and Pliny, "intellectual hostility" |
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| A policy of Active Extermination |
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| Decius and Valerian required Libelli |
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West= Maximian- Maxentius- Constantius- Constantine
East= Diocletian- Galerius- Licinius |
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| Greeks foreshadowed Christ, followed the theology of Origen, Church and state are intertwined |
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| Why is the Council of Nicaea Important? |
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First ecumenical council
Called by the emperor
signaled a new way to do theology |
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| Nicene Trinitarianism Teaches |
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Father and son are of the same substance
The father and son are co-eternal
Son was begotten, not made
HS is with the Father and the Son worshiped together and glorified together. |
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| What subjects were portrayed in early Christian Art? |
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Biblical persons, Christian re-interpretation of pagan or mythological subjects
Decorative or abstract depictions |
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Earthly kingdoms rise and fall; only God's kingdom will endure forever
"alien" and "sojourner" this is not our home. |
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| Jewish Christian Sects- human or divine? |
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Rejected virgin birth
denied the pre-existence of christ
claimed christ is an earthly messiah
said he was spirit filled at his baptism |
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| Adoptionists- human or divine? |
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"Jesus Christ is from below"
God "adopts" the man Jesus of Nazareth and gives him divine power
NT basis?- |
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| Gnostics- human or divine? |
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docetic christology- only "seemed" to be human.
"the christ" came upon the man Jesus and used his body without making it his own. |
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Son is an exalted creation of the father- but not a true man
Created son used flesh to communicate with us. |
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| Apollinarianism- human or divine? |
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apollinaris
In Jesus the divine logos takes the place of his soul
jesus had a "logos" instead of a soul |
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| Alternate Christian Expressions |
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Persia- Organized a persian church in 410. Nestorian
Inidia- Evangelized by the disciple Thomas in the first century...Nestorian
Neestorians- "two natures" not united in "hypostatic union" |
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| Alternate Christian Expressions |
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Armenia- Hung out to dry by the Roman emperor...monphysite
Copts- hellenized Alexandria was connected to the center...monophysite
Ethiopia- Evangelized by the ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8, monophysite |
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| Early christian Missionary Efforts |
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ulifilas- captured by the goths and learned their language. Arian, consecrated bishop to he Goths in 341.
Patrick- kidnapped by the irish, concecrated bishop of ireland in 432 |
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The city...
was held in honor as the imperical capital.
Had the largest population of any urband center.
was associated with peter and paul
was the only patriarchate in the west. |
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| Was the rise of papacy a grab for power? |
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possibly, on the other hand, power can be used for good purposes.
suppression of heresy
accountability of other churches |
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| Key figures in the dev of the papacy |
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| Leo the Great,Gelasius, Gregory the Great, |
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| Christianity's arrival in Britain |
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Legend says Joseph of Arimathea brought Christianity to Britain in AD 63.
British bishops supported the council of Nicaea. |
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| Characteristics of Celtic Christianity |
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Location: Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall.
mysticisim/ supernaturalism
Respect for Creation
Monasticism/Asceticism |
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| End of the Empire in the West |
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| Last emperor in the west was Romulus Agustulus. 476. |
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Germanic or Teutonic peoples of northern europe were crossing the rhine and danube
Settled within the empire and gradually assimiliated into roman life |
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Germanic warrior culture "homage" was paid to a chieftain.
the "lord" had his "vassals" who owed him service in war.
foedus= a contract or covenant. |
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In city of God, Augustine said there were two kingdoms.
"two-city" to argue church is the higher power.
Pope Gelasius- the kings have potestas, but church has auctoritas. |
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| He added great prestige and influence to the office of the papacy. |
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Charlemagne became king of the franks in 771.
violent man of war who conquered many tribes and forged a unified empire. |
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Norsemen dev. the art of shipbuilding.
Settled in northern france |
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| Life in the Medieval christendom |
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| Metaphor: the church tames her man. "christian wife" |
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| Why the Chruch was ending in the early middle ages: |
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pope's ecclesiastical authority was weak.
Church had lost it's moral bearings
Church buildings had been ravaged
The western church was weaker than the east. |
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| The Lay Invesiture Controversy |
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Kings and/or german emperor claimed the right to invest bishops with their ring and crosier
Gregory disagreed.
1076 Henry IV of Germany declared the pope be deposed. Gregory didn't back down. Henry IV repented. |
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Pope Leo IX sent an ambassador to resolve the ecclesiastical tensions.
1054 Humbert laid a papal bull of excommunicatio non the altar. Roman catholics are willing to assert their power against the Eastern Orthodox. |
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Reunite Christianity by having the West rescue the Byzantines from the islamic threat.
Desire to liberate the holy land from muslim control.
Desire to open up trades passages
gain eternal benefits |
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Western Europe is ignited
Pter the hermit let the people's crusade
1096 the knights set oout |
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Charlemagne appointed Alcuin to oversee education.
Celtic learning
organized monasteries and bishop's schools |
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composed the ontological proof of God's existence
Faith seeking understanding |
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Plain monasteries, stricter, more remote.
known for their skilled labor and agriculture not scholarship |
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Order of Preachers
Very intellectual order
Scholarship, especially in the universities. |
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Founded by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209
Wandered countryside teaching and relying on charity
produced some great scholars...mostly pastoral ministry. |
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Friar of the Dominican Order
Taught in Paris and Italy
Wrote his greatest work the Summan Teologiae
Re-discovered Aristotle |
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