REL 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Congregationalist Polity, Irresistible Grace, Counter-Reformation
Document Summary
Rise of roman bishops: guardians of civilization: roman bishops are the only link to the old empire and the catholic faith it professed. 529 ce: emperor justinian i: shut down philosophical schools, council of orange: bishops met and discussed the semi-pelagian controversy, beginning of dark ages, affirmed augustine during semi-pelagian controversy, benedict founds his monastery: monte cassino. Antony and the desert: persecution ends, antony flees to the desert and becomes and ascetic, a new kind of martyr: a monk. Monasticism: renouncing worldly pleasures in order to devote oneself completely to god. Benedict of nursia: 480-447: new monastery: monte casino, new lifestyle: the rule, poverty, chastity, obedience, to pray is to work, to work is to pray. Cenobitic monasticism: monks living together in community. Preserving the past: manuscript copying: cenobitic monks would copy key texts from. Roman and christina sources in order to keep them from being lost.
