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

such, it also provides a guide to reading the canonical Gospels: This is the truth that readers are to find in those complex tex ...

Lecture 10: The Shaping of Orthodoxy The Definitive Emergence of Christianity • The start of the “history of Christianity” in ...

Institutional Development before Constantine Lecture 11 H istory is not merely a matter of great men and the struggle of big ide ...

Lecture 11: Institutional Development before Constantine o In Egypt, communities appeared in the metropolis of Alexandria and in ...

o Despite the literary portrayal in the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, there is no real historical evidence of mass conversion ...

Lecture 11: Institutional Development before Constantine establishing the order of worship, providing hospitality to delegates f ...

God. The bishop was the source of unity: There was no true Eucharist apart from the bishop. o The elders (“priests”) and deacons ...

Lecture 11: Institutional Development before Constantine activities of worship and prayer were balanced by a genuine care for th ...

• The bishops of dioceses, in turn, were increasingly coordinated in their efforts by the bishops of major metropolitan sees— ...

Lecture 11: Institutional Development before Constantine Institutionalization within Christianity has sometimes been viewed as ...

The Beginnings of Christian Philosophy Lecture 12 I n the 2nd and 3rd centuries, four distinct “ways of being religious” that ha ...

Lecture 12: The Beginnings of Christian Philosophy • The “way of transcending the world” is found in the dualistic spiritual ...

are to be “renewed in mind” and “think the way Christ thought” to direct their behavior. o In similar fashion, the anonymous aut ...

Lecture 12: The Beginnings of Christian Philosophy Justin Martyr • Both the symbolic and the real birth of Christian philosop ...

• Little is known of Clement’s life. Born in Athens, he became a student of the Platonic philosopher Pantaenus in Alexandria. ...

Lecture 12: The Beginnings of Christian Philosophy Origen of Alexandria • With Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–254), the place o ...

o Although Origen was careful to observe traditional teaching, his bold vision, pushed to an extreme by later disciples, led to ...

Lecture 13: Imperial Politics and Religion Imperial Politics and Religion Lecture 13 I n the first part of the course, we saw ho ...

o The church, which had flourished as a religious movement during centuries of oppression and persecution—flourished, moreover, ...

Lecture 13: Imperial Politics and Religion by Roman troops; the temptation to military leaders with ambition was constant. • ...