RELG 203 Lecture 1: Week 12-1 Lecture Notes
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In the quran, transposed into arabic, is a recognizably late antique interpretation of the judeo-christian tradition. We"ve spoken quite a bit of the political and social development sin the eastern. Mediterranean and near eastern worlds by the time the tislam emerges, but we need to talk a little bit about the religious developments in the christina east prior to this as well. By this point, christianity has moved well along the path to separation between east and west, and eastern orthodoxies are a combination of various linguistic groups. Eastern and western roman empire; empire becomes too big. Western is mostly latin, eastern is mainly greek. Although the new testament has a bent towards demonstrating the engagement of. Christianity in the roman world to the west, it is the case that christianity also spread to points east in its earliest stages. The new testament is slanted more towards the west. Empire, gives it the most important early structure - heresy.
