CAS RN 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Blackboard
20 Jan 2017
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Middle ages roman catholicism and eastern orthodoxy firmly in place. Development of methods for studying and interpreting sacred text: primacy of allegory / typology important for how christians understand themselves. Prefiguration of christian truth acrticulated in the new testament. Development of a highly defined relationship between church and state power. Everyone presumed the governtment would inherently be a christian one over time. Development of canon law whatever law might be, there was a paralell christian law. Gave legal principles of the church imposes spiritual penalties illegal to assume certain deviant positions -- illegal to perform wizardy or spiritual shit. Who you can marry / how you can marry interest on a loan. Sacred calendar fixed (feast days / fast days) Daily and holy day prayer structure fixed. Well defined understanding of the afterlife and christian doctrine of salvation. Everyday is related to some sort of cosmic reality. Bishop elected leader in each city.
