M E STD M50B Lecture 10: Week 5- Development of Institutionalized Christianity
8 Feb 2017
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M50b origins of judaism, christianity, and islam: development of christianity. Institutionalization of christianity: jesus movement became less grassroots and more institutionalized in subsequent decades/centuries, centers in rome, constantinople, alexandria, antioch, and jerusalem. Constantinople that traces to apostle andrew: oriental orthodox churches trace to a variety of apostles and share many theologies. Christian heresy: represented an early form of gnosticism- dualistic theology that says there are different levels of divinity, develops his own gospel, rejected entire hebrew bible, rejected most of the gospels, especially matthew that was too. Jewish : what was left was the marcion gospel w/ a heavily edited. Gospel of luke and edited version of ten of paul"s letters: this was the first attempt at creating a canon for the new. Testament: result: he was condemned as a heretic for cutting and pasting, but the early councils responded to it by trying to create a uniform canon, ireaneus wrote against heresies (c. 180 ce) which rationalized having 4.
