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Language of Faith

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Language of Faith

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Language of Faith:a brief history of the fall of the Roman Empire--

• Diocletian divided the Empire into two administrative regions in 286: Western Empire and Eastern Empire

• Constantine moves capital to Byzantium and renames it Constantinople in 330

• Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under the reign of Theodosius I in 380

• The ascendancy of Byzantium—started in the early part of the 4th century but its hay day came with Justinian and Theodora in 527

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Church fills political vacuum in the West

• Leo the Great issues the Petrine Doctrine…therefore Rome rules(this adds to the friction between the church in the East and West)

• The Roman Catholic Church replaces the Roman Empire in West

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Theology of the Christendom

• Council of Nicaea 325—Christ was of the same essence at God

• Nicene Creed 380—verbal statement of theology

• Christian Monasticism—asceticism parallels other world religions

• Monte Cassino monastery founded in 529 by Benedict

• Women weren’t accepted into the regular church hierarchy

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Monte Cassino--restored

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Monte Cassino

after WWII

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Aerial view of Monte Cassino

an interesting site: http://sandy-travels.com/cassino.shtml

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Power shift to the East by first half of the 6th century

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Leaders of the Church

• St. Jerome translated Bible into Latin—Vulgate version

• St. Ambrose wrote hymns

• Gregory the Great—organized the church in Rome

• St. Augustine of Hippo—great theologian of the church who had been a playboy prior to his conversion

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Christian Symbolism

An interesting site for symbolism:

http://home.att.net/~wegast/symbols/symbols.htm

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Christian Architecture

Christian architecture reflected the context and place where the

churches were built:

• The West generally built basilicas

• The East built doomed Greek cross style

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Old St. Peter’s 4th century

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Nave of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome 432-40

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Hagia Sophia ca. 532-37(184’ high)

compare withCathedral Beauvais ca. 1247

(157’)

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Byzantine Icons

Icons appear to be ironed flat

Religious reason behind icons was not to make a graven image of God or holy people

Icons merely pointed to the person

This icon isn’t the same thing as that to which it points

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Constantine atHagia Sophia

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Justinian’s Contribution to the Church and State

1. Tried to reunited East and West with Constantinople as the capital

2. Codified Roman laws3. Silk production 4. Hagia Sophia—Holy Wisdom started in 532 AD. Its height

was 184’ high compare with Cathedral Beauvais ca. 1247 at 157’ (He out did Solomon—according to him)

5. Gift of San Vitale, Ravenna6. Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom7. Prince Vladimir was the first Christian czar of Russia was

impressed with Hagia Sophia8. Byzantium replaced Rome as the “center” of the world

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San Vitale, Ravenna

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Emperor Justinian ca. 547

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Theodora ca. 547

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Sant’ Appollinare in Classe ca. 533-49

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Sant’ Appollinare interior

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St. Mark’s Venice ca. 1050

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Interior of St. Mark’s

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Language of Faith--an interesting site:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hm/06/hm06.htm