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Question 1: Describe the world into which Christianity appeared, including the influences, the religious, political, and philosophical contexts had on the new faith.
* Intro
* Christianity born into a world that already had its own religions, cultures, and social and political structures.
* Greek
* Roman
* Judaism
* Influences
* Cultural
* Greek/Hellenism
* Began with the military conquest of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE
* Common Language: Koine Greek
* Language structures how people think about things
* Early scriptures: Hebrew, first bible is translated in Greek Septuagint
* Chose Greek to communicate
* Philosophies
* Stoicism
* Popular during the time of Jesus and Paul. Paul writes about many virtues present in stoicism
* Platonism
* Allows Christianity to speak into gentile culture
* Reality of invisible and unseen world
* Reality of immortal soul
* Socrates
* A way of teaching and sharing material
* Aristotle
* Importance of life in this time, not just the afterlife
* Connection between spiritual and material
* Gives weight to the sacraments – changes the nature of the sacraments
* Roman
* Roman empire ruled during the time of Jesus and during the formation of the early church
* Three parts to the impact of the roman culture
* Pax Romana – peace of rome.
* This allowed a roman citizen to travel between various cultures and spread Christianity (Paul)
* Brought order
* Lex Romana – Law of Rome
* Organization and administration
* Impacted the...