TURN IN YOUR JOURNAL JR2

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CHAPTER 6

• TURN IN YOUR JOURNAL JR2
• Cover Page
• Entries 11-20
• Open your Text Book to p.103 125
• BOOK COVER INSPECTION ON WED.
• BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS.

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PATRICK BRIGID

• founded monasteries in Ireland
• trusted that if you build it they will come
• Latin and the other trades taught at the
  monasteries.
• preached in the Celtic language
• once people knew what the communities were trying
  to accomplish they eagerly joined them
• Preaching in native tongues will be an issue
  later on.

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Major Issues
WORKS ALONE Our own effort Out will power James
Law Works

• GRACE ALONE
• Gods free gift
• Gods grace
• Pauline
• Faith Spirit

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HOW do we practice the faith?

• TRUTH often lies in between extremes. These
  questions will reemerge at the time of the
  Protestant Reformation.
• Are YOU saved?
• How do you know?
• What do you do as proof of your salvation?
• Do you think everyone should be saved or only
  those that deserve to be saved?

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Decline of the WesternRoman EmpireChurch
State
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Pope Leo (440 CE)and Attila the Hun

• The people loved Pope Leo. He was a papa to
  them, a father figure. He gained their love,
  respect and loyalty.
• His political power in the absence of an emperor
  grew immensely.
• He was viewed by some as a new Pontifex Maximus
• He successfully negotiated peace with Attila
• In real life Attila was a small person, but he
  had great ambition for power. You could that say
  Attila had a Napoleon-complex a condition
  named after a famous, short military general who
  reigned during the 19th century

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Gregory the Great

• Gregory the Great (590 CE) (JWM 118) about one
  century after Leo
• There were lesser popes in between
• Gregory was a Religious leader
• Musician / composer
• pastor
• missionary
• founder of a monastery
• doctor of the church
• Gregory was a Political leader
• Skilled diplomat rather than attack and kill
  the Lombards, for example, Gregory instead tried
  to convert them to Christianity and to win their
  support
• The art of diplomacy helped him to make allies
  out of former enemies

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Justinian (527-565 CE) (JWM 108) the last
strong Emperor

• Why is he called the last?
• He was the last emperor to unite the East and the
  West into a single empire.
• He ordered the reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia
• Restructured Roman Civil Law the Justinian
  Code. Meanwhile, the church was following suit
  and restructuring church law.Church law is
  called Canon law.
• Typical of other emperors he attempted to run the
  church in the East as well as the state of the
  empire.

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PROS of Justinians reign

• Christianity was given approval in civil law
• The Justinian Code was more just than other
  bodies of law of the time.

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CONS of Justinians reign

• He supported some heresies that only after his
  death the church could begin to refute and to
  challenge
• He was a ruthless ruler.
• He had no clemency toward Jews, other
  non-Christians, or for criminals.

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Effect of the Empire'scollapse on the Church

• 410 CE Rome fell to the Barbarians.
• People reacted
• Goths looted and burned Rome.
• Pagans blamed the Christian God
• Christians werent sure why God allowed this to
  happen
• Augustine responded to the challenge of the
  divided empire in his works The City of God
  and The City of Man

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The Empire was broken again into two parts WEST
EAST

• EAST
• Bishop of Constantinople
• Capitol of the Empire
• Threatened by Islams desire to spread across the
  world.

• WEST
• Bishop of Rome
• Religion leader
• Political leader
• No emperor in the West
• Threatened by Barbarian tribes

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Muslims

• end of the 7th century Islam was a huge empire
• The great Christian cities in the East had fallen
  to Muslim control
• N. Africa
• Syria
• Jerusalem / the Holy City
• Muslims and Christians both trace the origin of
  their religions back to Abraham, and to Yahweh
  the God of the Jews.
• In the captured cities Christians were taxed
  merely for being Christian, so some converted to
  Islam to save money.
• Charles Martel 732 CE Stopped the advance of
  Islam upon the Roman Empire. By stopping the
  Muslim army he also stopped the spread of Islam
  into the remaining Christian cities.

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SPREADING FAITH

• Do modern day Muslims hope to conquer the whole
  world and to spread their beliefs to every living
  person?
• Have Christians changed their minds about
  spreading Christianity to every living person on
  the planet?
• Do you realize the power of these belief systems
  to alter the political and religious world you
  live in today?

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BOOK COVER INSPECTION

• No, you may not go to your locker.
• You were warned!
• Good cover A
• Poor cover B
• Missing cover C
• Damaged coverless book D
• No Book F

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TEST PREP! TEST FRIDAY!

• Explore the handoutsplus RQ notes
• Identify VIPs
• Antony, Desert Monks, Basil, Ambrose, Jerome,
  etc.
• Know your dogma via the
• Christological Councils about Jesus Christ
• Defend the CREED We believe in
• Identify your heresies heretics
• Draw a heretical Jesus