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Flowering of Faith
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Flowering of Faith
Some “bright” lights in the “dark ages”
• Christianity replaces classicism
• New life and eternal life
• This shift culturally changed the world
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Flowering of Faith
The Christianity had three major sources from which it sprung:
1. Greco-Roman Influence
2. Near Eastern Influence
3. Hebraic Influence
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Greco-Roman Influence
• This tradition had strong interest in oracles—recall the Delphic Oracle
• Eclectic tendencies to mix various traditions
• Moment of Zen…when you invade a region, you bring your culture with you and you pick up that region’s culture also. This cross-pollination took place with the Romans.
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Near Eastern Influence
• Mystery religions or cults
• Mithra and other agricultural gods
• All these groups had similar practices: baptism, communal meals, etc.
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Mithra slaying the Sacred Bull
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Mithra, Persian Sun God• Mithra predated Christianity by centuries
• The Roman soldiers followed Mithraism
• Mithra was born on December 25th
• He was a teacher with twelve disciples, performed miracles, Lord’s Supper, buried in a tomb, resurrected after three days
• His resurrection was celebrated every springtime
• Mithra was called the Good Shepherd, the Way, the Truth and the Light, the Redeemer, the Savior, the Messiah
• He was identified with both the lion and the lam
• Sunday was Mithra’s sacred day or the Lord's Day
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Roman Religious Laissez Faire
• The Romans were fairly tolerant of other religions— provided they didn’t preach against their religious/political cults
• The Jews got into trouble with Roman and this caused the NT writer, Luke, to distance Christianity from Judaism
• Read Luke and Acts. Luke attempts always to put the Romans in a good light
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Jewish Influence
Solomon’s Temple ca. 1000 BCE
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Jewish Influence
• Covenant People
• Ethics/morality
• Monotheism—caused conflicts with Rome
Four groups within Judaism:
1. Sadducees—aristocratic leaders
2. Pharisees—teachers with a messianic idea
3. Essences—ascetics and writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls
4. Zealots—revolutionaries (just what the Romans didn’t want)
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Masada,the fortress where the Zealots
held off the Romans…then committed mass suicide
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Qumran, site of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Beginnings of Christianity
• Jesus born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth
• Quest for the historical Jesus
• Synoptic Gospels—Matthew, Mark, and Luke
• Jesus complained about– Missed the meaning while obeying the letter of the Law
– Concerned with cast outs of society
– Religious hypocrisy
• Differences in the message between Luke and Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount
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Paul’ Spin on Christianity
• Paul moved Christianity from an Eastern to Western religion
• Paul straddled split between Eastern and Western thought
• Concern about universalizing the message and systematizing it
• Had it not been for the Roman roads, Europe and therefore America wouldn’t be predominately Christian today
• Constantine and Edict of Milan (313)—legalized Christianity
• Later, it became the official religion of the Empire
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Constantine engaged Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge in Rome
on October 28, 312 CE.
In a dream, he saw a sign…. “In hoc signes vinces.”
Because of this single battle, the world changed.
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The Constantine Arch in Rome
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Flowering of Faith
For an interesting world timeline:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hm/04/hm04.htm