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

The Outcome of the Trinitarian Controversy • Although the theological battles over the Trinity are complex and not entirely e ...

Lecture 18: Theological Crisis and Council—The Trinity Why are doctrine and disputes over doctrine so prominent in Christianity ...

Theological Crisis and Council—Christology.................................. Lecture 19 I n the last lecture, we traced the step ...

Lecture 19: Theological Crisis and Council—Christology spirit of Jesus within the community is understood as the spirit of the l ...

Origin of the Christological Controversies • The origin of the Christological controversies can be traced in part to the para ...

Lecture 19: Theological Crisis and Council—Christology o At the same time, the divinity of Christ is also vigorously attested. T ...

o Notice that the discourse is nevertheless entirely in ontological terms (“being” and “nature”) rather than in terms of Christ’ ...

Lecture 19: Theological Crisis and Council—Christology • The emperor Theodosius II called a general council to be held in Eph ...

• At the death of Theodosius II, who had supported the monophysite position, and at the urging of Pope Leo and the western bi ...

Lecture 19: Theological Crisis and Council—Christology • The disputes, carried out in public and with the intervention of imp ...

The Distinctive Issues of the Latin West Lecture 20 T he 4th and 5th centuries, dominated by theological disputes over the Trini ...

Lecture 20: The Distinctive Issues of the Latin West stood for a sectarian version of Christianity. The church is authentic only ...

correct: that the church was a mixed body that contained both the imperfect and the perfect. o Are the sacraments valid only whe ...

Lecture 20: The Distinctive Issues of the Latin West • The theological issue that locked Pelagius and Augustine in debate ove ...

o In Constantinople, he studied biblical exegesis with the great theologian Gregory of Nazianzus. o Jerome spent three years as ...

Lecture 20: The Distinctive Issues of the Latin West o Strongly influenced by Ambrose in Milan, Augustine converted to Christian ...

• Augustine’s sermons and biblical commentaries brought both literal and allegorical methods into creative harmony, while his ...

Lecture 21: Expansion beyond the Boundaries of Empire Expansion beyond the Boundaries of Empire Lecture 21 I n the last lecture, ...

through translations of the Bible into new languages, spread both a Christian consciousness and a sense of cultural identity. • ...

Lecture 21: Expansion beyond the Boundaries of Empire century. But Christianity in Yemen was overrun by Islam, and the remaining ...