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

for practicing charity in a community where people are committed to each other for life. o Benedict sees the common life as a ti ...

Lecture 26: Benedictine Monasticism and Its Influence Casey and Tomlin, Introducing the Rule of Benedict. Knowles, Christian Mon ...

Evangelization of Western Europe Lecture 27 I n the past few lectures, we have identified important elements in the formation of ...

Lecture 27: Evangelization of Western Europe o Sixty years after Damasus, Leo I (440–461) opposed Pelagianism—the teaching that ...

Pastoral Regulations, Moralia in Job, sermons, letters, and the Dialogues) were widely read and studied in the Middle Ages. He r ...

Lecture 27: Evangelization of Western Europe was carried out in trackless forests with hostile tribes; in places still deeply co ...

monasteries. A legend told of Boniface is that he tested the power of a pagan god by felling an oak dedicated to the deity; when ...

Lecture 27: Evangelization of Western Europe • The Venerable Bede (c. 673–735) spent his entire life in the Benedictine monas ...

saw a firmly established form of Catholic Christianity in northern Europe, thoroughly orthodox in doctrine, reformed in morals a ...

Lecture 28: The Great Divorce between East and West The Great Divorce between East and West Lecture 28 I n the 11th century, rel ...

o The eastern part of the empire expanded (see Justinian) and contracted (under Persian and Muslim attack), but it maintained a ...

Lecture 28: The Great Divorce between East and West o Ambrose of Milan (339–397) was educated in both Greek and Latin, correspon ...

The Iconoclasm Controversy • As we saw in Lecture 23, even greater tension was generated in the 8 th and 9th centuries as a r ...

Lecture 28: The Great Divorce between East and West instance of interference by Rome and by the Frankish kingdom at the very gat ...

• The dispute over this minute element of doctrine provided a convenient flashpoint for the political-ecclesiastical rivalrie ...

Lecture 28: The Great Divorce between East and West o At the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1439, the Greeks sought unity with t ...

Monastic Reform Lecture 29 T he split between East and West in the 11th century occasioned by the filioque controversy shows how ...

Lecture 29: monastic Reform life was ordered to “the four last things”: death, judgment, heaven, or hell. o A freely chosen modi ...

o The size of monastic houses also led to the specialization of activities, so that the delicate balance between work and prayer ...

Lecture 29: monastic Reform encouraged a sense of belonging to a broader reform movement (“the Cluniac Reform”). • Another in ...