SOSC 1740 Chapter 9: Reading Guide - Chapter 9
18 Jun 2017
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Reading guide chapter 9 (cloister and community: the new official religion (christianity) of the roman empire provided an invisible prototype of the new city. (243) what features of the roman city became. The new religion vision that made this possible gave appositive value to all negations and defeats that the romanized people had experienced (243) Religion offered a way out of the rubble and offered romans new possibilities of life. Christian rome found a new capital, the heavenly city; and a new civic bond, the communion of the saints. Here was the invisible prototype of the new city. (243) Religion seemed to be mainly founded to help offer methods for people encountering difficulties, such as; sin, pain, illness, death, evil, and more. Instead of en sacrificing to their gods, christian gods took human form. The christian monastery is important because it became the new polis! Augustine, the bishop of hippo, founded such an order in the fourth century (246)
