ALEXAMENOS SEBETE THEON
Graffiti: Alexamenos worships his God, Palatine Hill, Rome, ca. 200 CE
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Assignment #2
Choose of the three review strategies and post it in a comment. For example, you can post a one sentence summary of a lecture. Or, you can post a one sentence summary of a primary source and how it relates to the overall themes of the course. Please try to choose a question/lecture/source that another student hasn't already covered.
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Professor Albertson in the lecture, "Early Christian Ethics", discusses apocalyptic themes that appear in early Christianity; elements of Christian apocalypticism includes the oppression of Jews under Roman occupation/profanation of the temple, the arrival of Jesus as Messiah, the divine judgement upon those who do not believe that Jesus is the Messiah, and the full arrival of God's kingdom when Jesus returns.
ReplyDelete-Andrew Lee
Summary of Early Christian Ritual
ReplyDeleteThere were arguments in the early Christian communities regarding rituals. The major controversy boiled down to, do new Christians have to become Jewish first/follow Jewish ritual?
Peter vs. Paul on Circumcision and Diet
Right Practice vs. Right Belief
Paul felt that belief was more important than practice and that new followers of the Jesus movement shouldn't have to conform to Jewish practices
Some of the early Rituals were
Eucharist---the community meal
Baptism---entering the church/cleansing
Marking of time---church calendar
---Melanie Kaplanek
The last lasture talked about Agustine's and Pelagius' ethics. Augustine had a pessimistic view on human nature that human beings cannot be good by themselves while Pelagius was optimistic and thought that humans have the will to choose good from evil.
ReplyDelete-Stephanie Chow
In the lecture titled "Divisions Among Early Christian Sects", Professor Albertson talked about the general features of Gnosticism and the different leaders associated with them, "Montanism" also known as The New Prophecy Movement, and about the two influential bishops Iraneus and Ignatius.
ReplyDelete-Garrett Moore
In the lecture "Jesus and Judaism", Professor Albertson discussed the origins of Judaism and how the Jewish religion was viewed by outsiders. He went on to further discuss the basic structure of the Old Testament and then discussed the life of Jesus Christ and how his teachings would eventually segue into a new religion.
ReplyDelete- Curren Mehta
Lecture 4 described the divisions in Christianity into early Christianity sects, such as Gnosticism and proto-orthodoxy. Gnosticism introduced the concept of the evil material world, and how salvation is obtained through gnosis (or knowledge). On the other hand, proto-orthodoxy rejected Gnosticism and attempted to implement bishops, canons, and creeds as means for permanent institutions in Christianity.
ReplyDeletePatrick Lee
Lecture 7 addressed the controversy of apostate bishops, how Donatists argued that the purity of sacraments depended on the purity of the leaders performing it. However, Augustine of Hippo countered the Donatists by stating that the importance lied within the purity of the sacrament rather than the purity of the leader. On the other hand, since martyrdom was no longer required due to the Christianization of Rome, spiritual followers sought asceticism and monasticism as forms of voluntary suffering for Christ.
ReplyDeletePatrick Lee
(rewrote another one because someone already wrote about the divisions amongst Christian sects)
In the lecture on early Christian rituals, we addressed Paul's interpretation of rituals and further separation from Jewish practices, as well as early Christian rituals that began including the bathing ritual of baptism, the eating ritual of eucharist, and the marking of time and teaching of the Word by way of liturgy.
ReplyDeleteSterling Phillips