REL 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indulgence, Hesychasm, Summa Theologica
13 Apr 2017
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13th century climax of development of latin (western) christianity: main developments/works of 13th century: The concept of purgatory": where you go after death to be purged from sins, after which you can enter heaven. Each chapter has different subdivisions talking about hierarchy (according to sin) within each realm. Based on catholic theology: after death, the effects of sin were purged from the souls of believers. Thomas aquinas (1225-1274: tradition of scholasticism, summa theologiae most important work. Two objections: if god exists, then why does evil exist, no need to suppose there is a god since through our observation of nature, etc, we can understand everything. In response to the objections, he argues the reasons why god. Does exist: argument concerning motion, the biblical and aristotelian. In contrast to platonism (platonism stressed method of dichotomy between material (soul and flesh, for ex): rejection of dichotomies, through natural reason we conceived of god"s existence.
