HIST 30621 Lecture 1: CCC lecture notes
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Not a blank slate: church and its institutions and socioeconomic hierarchy. The inherited worldview: christian salvation history and christian life (western. Europe around 1000: bishops and monks= principal carriers of christian faith. Inherited a worldview and faith that they had not created but that had been passed down: god= transcendent creator, active in history, including his chosen people. Man created by god and in his image and out of love, all people after. Adam and eve born with original sin (source of pain, death, suffering in world) God is intimately involved with his people, has a name. Infinite love and mercy makes a covenant (abraham, israelites, Prophecy and promise of a messiah fulfilled in an interesting way. God takes on all ugliness of humanity and joins us on earth. Jesus of nazareth = incarnation of god, savior for humanity. Called his people to act (peter is his rock) outcome is the church,
