HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eucharist, Middle Ages, Bayesian Network
11 Mar 2020
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By the time we get to late medieval western europe, latin will be the scholarly norm. Yet knowledge of greek and hebrew was increasing, which brought older forms of justice back into view: abrahamic exemplar. The exemplar here is abraham, who believed god and was reckoned as just by god. That is, it was abraham"s faith that made him just before god, not his virtuous activities. Already in antiquity, we see the roots of the doctrine of justification by faith emerge. Augustine, unlike luther, always emphasizes justification by faith working through love, which brings back in the church as sacramental community: medieval augustinianism. In the late middle ages, the theological consensus is augustinian. Most theologians agree that divine agency operating through grace is what drives salvation: sacramental grace. Yet we must remember that grace was transmitted through the sacraments. The predestinating favour of god worked hand in hand with baptism, eucharist, penance and the rest: a limited freedom.
