PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Nicene Creed, Western Roman Empire, Christian Monasticism
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Canonization of the new testament (367 ce) Nt has 27 books but no thomas, valentinus, or marcion. Some christians really didn"t like all this canonization and the movement away from isolation and becoming part of the mainstream. Isolated. focused on prayer. studying text. misanthropic. purity. spirit/matter ideals, avoiding matter. Was a crazy party animal. then became christian. became priest. then bishop. then monk. Articulated the trinity. made the association between being a monk and being celebate. formulated original sin. Still influential in christianity to this day. At this time in history, there was no one right way to be a christian. When the roman imperial powers got involved, there was political pull for one small group who could now enforce their singular views on everyone else. This one small group were left to choose what was orthodox, and everything else became herasy. East and west came to be more and more different overtime.