RELI 160D2 1st Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I Gospel II Christian Theology of History III The Public Life of Jesus Outline of Current Lecture I Jesus life continued II Divisions of Christianity III Martin Luther Current Lecture steps of Jesus life continued 8 Jesus taught in parables fictitious stories that makes one basic point The Second Parable is called the 11th hour workers It s harvest time 5pm our time they all work for one hour Moral it s never too late to repent God will accept you even at the end The Third Parable is called the Good Samaritan Samaritan pulls man out of ditch pays for him to stay in an Inn Jesus asks Who is your neighbor The answer is everyone 9 He claims to be divine They have the same power as God himself He forgave sin in his own name 10 Death resurrection Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews He is buried before sundown On Sunday morning he rises from the dead He wasn t recognized until he spoke Sarx your physical body Paul makes this clear he s radically the same but he s radically different Crucifiction was horrible started in Persia and Rome picked up on it Jesus dies then there s just one christian church Roman Catholic it s for everybody In 1054 there s a break between east and west of christian world eastern is eastern orthodox christianity they re greek syrian and russian and west is called reformation or Roman Anglican lutheran reformed and anabaptist The Apologists 2nd century 18 in all They re defending christianity Church fathers the great writers in the 3rd to the 6th centuries Syrians writing about christianity Nero starts persecuting christians they re liable to death if christian Constantine In Eden of Milan in 313 granted religious toleration to every religion including christianity His mother Helena was a christian St Augustine The greatest writer of the whole first millennium 1 He was a genius St Ambrose was a bishop in Milan and a great scholar In his book Confessions he says there s a good god an evil god 2 Most wrote in Greek he wrote in Latin easy for readers 3 Last great theologian preceding the dark ages Monasticism First Monks were hermits and then they started to live together and form communities The great monastic group is the benedictines Charlemagne 9th century Crowned emperor on christmas day Alcuin of York made sure each monastery had a school attached to it Universities 12th century Fist universities Oxford Paris etc Fixed curriculum Academic degrees St Thomas Aquinas Aristotle starts with what you can see hear and works up to God Plato does the opposite This style was not popular His great book is called Summa Theologiae written in latin 1st volume God 2nd volume morality Martin Luther Early Life University of Erfurt Very pious here Wanted to be a catholic priest 1505 21 he entered the Augustinian Monastery 1507 he is ordained a priest Problem is that how much can you learn in just two years He was brilliant so they wanted him to get his PHD 1512 he became a PHD and a professor at Wittenberg Scrupulosity can t get away from sin staupitz Always felt guilty no matter what He says Where can I find a merciful God Teaches bible courses