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Faith & Life - Documentary (Judaism # # (Jewish, based in Jerusalem,…
Faith & Life - Documentary
Christianity has enormous history
whatever looked interesting.
2000 years Christianity great world player
faith
politics
Emperors wanted unity, not religion
war
INTRO: 2000 years. Inspiring faith. Jesus himself. Lots of fay-may people. Brought human beings to bad things and good things and creative things. Survive dpersecution, science, wars, mockery, hatred. 2 000 000 000 christians (1/3 of humanity). Shared core: ? Threatened by secular society Can it survive? Face to face with randoms. Jerusalem
Jesus hurt by romans. Some dude changed his life, after seeing Jesus. Gentiles as well as jews.
Reshaped face of Christ and western civilisation
Jesus overcame death is hard to deal with. Made holy places and big results. A personality cult.
Transform your life. Drove relentless expansion.
Origins are in the east, not west. Jerusalem. Syria. Asia.
how did Christianity survive away from Jerusalem
Could Christianity survive?
Christian Eddessa: music
religious belief is transformational
good
evil
all denominations are linked
threatened by apathy
Jerusalem
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everyone has heard something of the Christian story
Paul
focused on Gentiles
Went to Rome
Got persecuted
Jesus
changed the way people have acted across history
Christianity has a Jesus cult at the start
life transformation
eternal life
many sacred things
Church with Jesus tomb (??)
Orthodox
dominated European Christianity
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Catholicism
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Coptic Church
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Ethiopian Orthodox
some of the oldest churches
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"Could have been Baghdad" for Catholicism
the church fought it's way through history
Judaism
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Jewish
based in Jerusalem
Jerusalem siege, killed many
temple burnt
led by St. James
Rome
plundered
sent Jews into exile
killed Paul and Peter
Turkey
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became a refuge for Christians in Jerusalem
Edessa
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pioneered church music
liturgical chants still remain
everyone had to flee to Syria after WW1
St. Ephram
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Western Hymn Singing
strongly discouraged
Christianity was not the choice
Emperor Constantine everything
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State religion of an
empire
brought power and wealth
gave Christianity the ability to become a global religion
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Monastacism
came out of the east
isolation
avoids the material
suffering
shaped Christianity
St. Simeon
sat on a pillar
Syrian hermit
believed in suffering for salvation
pilgrims visit the pillar
the idea was suffer on earth to deserve happiness in heaven
Monasteries and Convents
Constantinople
Christian capital for a while
the faith was not unified
modern day Istanbul
asking hard questions
Who was Jesus?
What relates Jesus and God?
Why believe?
Christian Basics
Who was Jesus?
Egyptian guy thought he was not God
others saw the Trinity
Oil and water; two separate natures
fully human = identification
fully divine = easy to worship
Religious Purity
opposite of later religious tolerance
Constantine: council
"Homo isios"
Nicene Creed
proclaims the trinity
still used in churches now
many people didn't like the water oil idea
water and wine theory
more councils necessary
compromise
crap one, everybody was upset and marginalised
key people didn't like the compromise
lack of reconciliation
the church split (first time ever)
Eastern Christians didn't follow
left without help
started expansion
took Christianity to Asia
Syria
created a new Eastern Chruch
Syriac orthodox church
trained just outside Damascus
shows what imperial Christianity could've been
RITUALS
pays attention to performance
more in touch with origins
symbolic
liturgy different
Theology
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West: theologians are philosophers
East: theologians are poets and artists