The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

Eastern Orthodoxy—Holy Tradition Lecture 24 A fter centuries of religious struggle, Christianity in the Byzantine Empire settled ...

Lecture 24: Eastern Orthodoxy—Holy Tradition o In 862, the emperor Michael III sent them to Moravia (a territory east of the pre ...

• The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom (from the 5th century) is the most widely used form of worship in the Byzantine ...

Lecture 24: Eastern Orthodoxy—Holy Tradition o In addition to movement, the liturgy makes dramatic use of vision through the ico ...

o All monks are pledged to the “angelic life,” meaning that they make vows of celibacy, poverty, and obedience. Their life apart ...

Lecture 24: Eastern Orthodoxy—Holy Tradition Athos (“the Holy Mountain”) in Macedonia, founded in the 8 th century, which by its ...

confessor to the Orthodox faith. His spiritual writings combine theological rigor and profound piety. o John Climacus (579–649) ...

Lecture 24: Eastern Orthodoxy—Holy Tradition Consider the Orthodox tradition in light of the assertion that it did not experien ...

From Roman Empire to Holy Roman Empire Lecture 25 T his lecture marks the second great transition in our historical survey of Ch ...

Lecture 25: From Roman Empire to Holy Roman Empire • The process of reintegration and stabilization began with the emergence ...

o Clovis sponsored the establishment of the Salian (or Salic) Law in 507 or 511; written in Latin, it provided the basis for a l ...

Lecture 25: From Roman Empire to Holy Roman Empire • “Popes and Franks” may sound like ballpark food, but the phrase sums up ...

• In addition to these military conquests, Charlemagne solidified the new Roman Empire by attention to cultural realities in ...

Lecture 25: From Roman Empire to Holy Roman Empire the master (serfs) or those who were indirectly his clients (peasants/knaves) ...

• The church also had its “lords of manors” in the form of abbots in monasteries and bishops in cathedral towns—who invariabl ...

Lecture 26: Benedictine Monasticism and Its Influence Benedictine Monasticism and Its Influence Lecture 26 I n the last lecture, ...

quite possibly simply the desire for holiness—he left secular life to live as a hermit in Subiaco (about 40 miles east of Rome). ...

Lecture 26: Benedictine Monasticism and Its Influence o Obedience to the Rule and the abbot (the head of the monastery) structur ...

Scholastica was abbess over female Benedictines, who also lived by the Rule. • The system of governance for the monastery out ...

Lecture 26: Benedictine Monasticism and Its Influence and to mental work (including the production of manuscripts and study), wh ...