REL 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pope Urban Ii, Donatism, Hegira
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What kinds of arguments is pope urban ii using to persuade his audience: us is being threatened, the pope is speaking for god. Why do you think these arguments are effective: the pope is the highest authority who answers only to god, the pope speaks directly for god and that what the pope says is from god directly. Why or why not: yes, there is no stopping point. To defeat the muslims, who threatened the byzantine empire (esp. To reunite the eastern and western branches of the church (division of east and west symbolized by actions of charlemagne in year 800) Fall of (western) roman empire in 410 caused creation of many independent king- doms. Groups of invaders brought with them various understandings of christianity. Vandals (407): took carthage (one ofaugustine"s cities), parts of italy (took control of. Rome in 455); theologically dangerous because they were arians; persecuted chris- tians.
