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

Monasticism as Radical Christianity Lecture 16 T he new conditions of Christians within an imperially approved and sponsored rel ...

Lecture 16: monasticism as Radical Christianity together” outside the bounds of ordinary society. The Pythagoreans, indeed, main ...

• Already in this account, we glimpse some of the elements of the early monastic life. o The world is perceived as corrupting ...

Lecture 16: monasticism as Radical Christianity o By the time of his death, he had under his authority some nine monasteries for ...

o The monks presented an alternative culture, based not on wealth but poverty, not on power but weakness, not on prestige but lo ...

Lecture 16: monasticism as Radical Christianity o Among the notable figures on whom Palladius reports are wealthy patronesses, s ...

Chitty, The Desert a City. Harmless, Desert Christians. What characteristics of early monasticism justify calling it a “white m ...

Lecture 17: The Emergence of Patriarchal Centers The Emergence of Patriarchal Centers Lecture 17 I n the last lecture, we saw th ...

• As some cities grew in size (as centers of trade) or prestige (as religious sites), they became symbolically—and sometimes ...

Lecture 17: The Emergence of Patriarchal Centers o Each of these cities had its own claims to importance within Christian histor ...

o As an apostle, Peter gathered the remnant community at Pentecost, defended it before Jewish authorities, and was one of the th ...

Lecture 17: The Emergence of Patriarchal Centers • Rome’s authority eventually would be restricted to the West (at least in t ...

Jesus’s humanity—he was one among other humans. In its extreme form, this position diminished the divine character of Christ, se ...

Lecture 17: The Emergence of Patriarchal Centers Constantinople • Finally, there was the patriarchate of Constantinople, the ...

Theological Crisis and Council—The Trinity Lecture 18 T he territorial rivalries we discussed in the last lecture provide the ba ...

Lecture 18: Theological Crisis and Council—The Trinity • In the 4th century, Christianity was divided particularly over the u ...

Arius and the Council at Nicaea • The first stage of the crisis came about because of the popular teaching of a presbyter nam ...

Lecture 18: Theological Crisis and Council—The Trinity • Such teaching was regarded as heretical by those who had already res ...

Regional Synods and Continuing Controversy • The decades after the Council of Nicaea saw the production of literature and the ...

Lecture 18: Theological Crisis and Council—The Trinity • The situation for orthodoxy was not aided by the fact that missionar ...