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CH602 LECTURE 1: INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION TO THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH
1. Introduction
2. What is Church History and Historical Theology?
3. Four Historiographic Models
Marxism Hegelian-Dialectical -
Golden Age
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HODM
4.The Epochs
5.Historiography of the Medieval
Church
6.Method: How Shall We Study ME
Theologians and Theologies?
7.When and What were the Middle
Ages?
8.The Grammar of the Medieval
Church
9. Patterns/Themes
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Nature/Grace
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Two Swords v Two Kingdoms
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Moralism
(semi-Pelagianism)
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Regula Sancti Benedicti
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Dominicans
(Blackfriars)
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Franciscans (Greyfriars)
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Augustinian
Hermits/Friars
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Benedictine
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Carmelites
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Cistercians
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Carthusians
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Brethren of the Common
Life (Fratres Communis Vitae)
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Mysticism (immediate
access to God)
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Centralization of the
ecclesial authority (confusion of cult and culture)
- Sacerdotalism (the rise of
priestly religion)
- Rise of Universities
- Patristic education -> Catechetical Schools
- Early ME education -> Cathedral schools (regional)
- High ME -> Universities (international)
- The Rise of "Scholasticism"
- Definition: Theology done in the "Schola"
- The Patristic Origins of Academic Theology
- The Early Medieval Advancement of Academic Theology
- The High Medieval Refinement of Academic Theology
- The Late Medieval Rebellion Against Academic Theology
- Against Perceived Hair-Splitting
- Against Metaphysical Speculation
- In Onto-mysticism
- By Other "Scholastics"
- Diversity in Medieval Theology, Piety, and Practice
10. Events and Movements
1. Sacking of Rome and the Conversion of the Barbarians (410)
2.Donatio Constantini (post 750)
3. Baptism of Charlemagne 800
4. Councils and Conciliarism
5. Schism of East and West
6. Crusades
7. Unam Sanctam (18 Nov 1302)
8. Black plague (14c)/Black Death
9. Avignon Papacy and Decline of the Papacy
10. Inquisition
11. Organization of the ME Church
10. Medieval Hermeneutics
1. Old Law/New Law
2. Quadriga
11. Conclusions |
