THE NEW ORDER : THE BEGINNING OF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH

THE NEW ORDER : THE BEGINNING OF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH

 

Augustine of Hippo

 

 

1. The end of an era

* A series of "Barbarian" invasions and the fall of the Western Roman empire (217)

# Continuing survival of the Eastern (Byzantine) Roman Empire (217)

* The changing role of the church in the West in the vacuum of the political power (218)

* Mission to the "Barbarians" (The new residents)

* "Out of all this, a new civilization would arise, one would was heir to classical Greco-Roman

antiquity as well as to Christianity and to Germanic traditions. This process took the thousand

years known as the Middle age." (218)

 

 

2. The "Barbarian" kingdoms

* "The fall of Roman empire created a number of independent kingdoms" (231)

The hope of the barbarians was not the destruction of Roman empire but the settlement in there

* The Vandals (231-2)

* The Visigoths (232-3)

* The Franks (234)

* Britain (234-5, 236)

* The Irish (235-6)

* The changing relationship between the West and the East (237-8)

* "In summary,..." (238)

 

 

3. Benedictine Monasticism

* Three distinctions of the western monasticism (238)

* the founder of the Western monasticism, Benedict (born in 480)

* "Benedict's Rule" (239)

1) The basic characteristics of the "Rule": A wise ordering of monastic life (239)

2) Permanence (239)

3) Obedience (239)

4) Toward an errant monk (239-240)

6) Physical labor and economic impacts (240, 241)

7) Prayer and devotions (241)

8) Academics (241)

9) The Spread of the "rule" in the West (241-2)

 

 

4. The Papacy (243-248)

* The origin of the "pope" (242)

* The reason of the papal authority (242)

* Leo, the first pope in the modern sense. (242-243)

* Gregory, "the Great" (244-247)

1) Early years (244-6)

2) Appointment (246)

3) Missionary efforts (246-7)

4) Theological influences (247): Augustinian influence (also, the difference)

* Gregory's successors (248)