RELG 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Antichrist, Justinian I, Asceticism
27 Feb 2017
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Paper 2: can write about either science or philosophy. Could just write it on islam and climate change. Fist time christinaity broke apart: catholic and orthodox christians. Church was once defined by bishops established by the 12 apostles. Only 5 churches survived, one in west (rome) other 4 in east (jerusalem, White jr. doesn"t think orthodoxy has a place in the west. Early 5th c language divided (cid:523)couldn"t learn greek(cid:524) Orthodox is not just greek russian, serbian, oriental, an orthodox church. Bartholomew ) of constantinople most similar but all churches are equal . Of the 12 disciples in new testament. Only 1 lived to old age so he had his own disciple. His disciple: polycarp of symrna then irenaeus of lyon: the 1st theologian. Of the 4 churches no figure like the pope for rome. Interesting tension in christianity that carries on to today: how much philosophy gets mixed into theology and is it a problem.
