Theology Politics- Fourth-Century Controversies.ppt

1、Theology & Politics: Fourth-Century Controversies,Theology & Politics: Fourth-Century Controversies I. North Africa: The Donatist Controversy,Theology & Politics: Fourth-Century Controversies I. North Africa: The Donatist ControversyII. The Arian Controversy,Theology & Politics: Fourth-Century Contr

2、oversies I. North Africa: The Donatist ControversyII. The Arian ControversyA. The Conflict,Theology & Politics: Fourth-Century Controversies I. North Africa: The Donatist ControversyII. The Arian ControversyA. The ConflictB. Resolution: Council of Nicaea & the Nicene Creed,Icon depicting the First C

3、ouncil of Nicaea (325),B. Resolution: Council of Nicaea & the Nicene Creed,The Nicene CreedWe believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten of his Father, of the substance of the Father, God of God,

4、 Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance homoousios with the Father. By whom all things were made, both which be in heaven and in earth. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate and was made man. He suffered and the third d

5、ay he rose again, and ascended into heaven. And he shall come again to judge both the quick and the dead. And we believe in the Holy Ghost. And whosoever shall say that there was a time when the Son of God was not, or that before he was begotten he was not, or that he was made of things that were no

6、t, or that he is of a different substance or essence from the Father or that he is a creature, or subject to change or conversion-all that so say, the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes them.,Theology Council of Constantinople (381),Theology Council of Constantinople D. 3 Important Aspects

7、of the Controversy,Theology Council of Constantinople D. 3 Important Aspects of the Controversy III. Fourth-Century Paganism,Theology Council of Constantinople D. 3 Important Aspects of the Controversy III. Fourth-Century PaganismA. The Career of Emperor Julian the “Apostate”,A. The Career of Empero

8、r Julian the “Apostate”,Death of Julian in Christian legend: Coptic icon of St. Mercurius,Theology Council of Constantinople D. 3 Important Aspects of the Controversy III. Fourth-Century PaganismA. The Career of Emperor Julian the “Apostate”B. Julians Religious Policies,Julians Coinage,Theology Coun

9、cil of Constantinople D. 3 Important Aspects of the Controversy III. Fourth-Century PaganismA. The Career of Emperor Julian the “Apostate”B. Julians Religious Policies IV. Reign of Theodosius I & the Triumph of Nicene Christianity,BishopTheophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, standing on ruins of the S

10、erapeum, pagan temple destroyed in 391,(fragment of fifth-century Alexandrian chronicle),Christian Graffiti: Pagan Statues marked with sign of the cross,Ambrose of Milan Expelling Jews or Arians,Illuminated manuscript, fifteenth century from Morgan Library, New York, M. 672-5, Morgan Library,Emperor Theodosius the Great (379-395),