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The History of Christianity I: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

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God & Work

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Christianity's institutional forms—creeds, councils, papacy, monasteries, cathedrals—were forged through centuries of political conflict and doctrinal struggle.

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obedience-and-authority

Rome's authority was far from absolute… yet the symbolic and moral authority of the Roman church was real and recognized across regions.
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Innocent III was obsessed with the plenitudo of papal power, asserting authority aggressively in matters both secular and religious.
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The greatest champion of orthodoxy was Athanasius, who wrote extensively in favor of the conciliar creed's use of homoousios against continuing Arian resistance.
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The classical debate concerned the what of Christ—his essence—rather than the who of Christ, conducted entirely in ontological terms.
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Clement forged a thinking person's Christianity, seeking a middle way between Gnostic elitism and the ignorance of simple believers.
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Chapter schools were the seedbeds for the eventual development of universities in cathedral cities such as Paris, Bologna, and Oxford.
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