RLG100Y1 Lecture 13: World Religion Lecture 13
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Christianity was never one unified faith, always diverse traditions and beliefs. Sacrificed its diversity in becoming an imperial religion. Various attempts to reunify christianity under one banner. Community becomes to associate shrines with holiness and as heavenly creature. One of the big preoccupation of medieval christianity, is the idea of evil and sin. Very concerned with figures of satan and evil. Tremendous anxiety of how to mitigate a sin. Theologies are based on this idea of sin in this time period. God is inaccessible to sinful creatures, like us therefore achieve mediation and favour of some figure that can advocate for us. This is why they are out a shrines. Politically in eastern side holy roman emperor. The pope is the spiritual leader of the church, therefore responsible for shaping the. The papacy involved in politics, maintains its own standing army, extremely wealthy and holds it influence.