RELG 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Platonism, Stoicism, Heterodoxy
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Describes everything in early christian literature claimed by authority. Before we can talk about the new testament apocrypha, we need to understand something of the process by which the new testament" became the new testament. The main motivator for the development of the new testament canon is the legalization of the church during the reign of constantine. This process brought about an enormous series of changes within the church(es) that had pre-existed the legalization, and fairly quickly, motivated a consolidation of. The council that decided this was called the council of nicea (325 ce), and is where the formulation of the trinity emerges. New document; trinity - god the father, the son and the holy spirit. Neo-platonism: hybrid of material coming out of platonic philosophy and aristotle system. Trying to categorize things by making sense of things. Plato talks about forms - everything is a re ection of an eternal form. Aristotle very rarely deals with the spirit world.
