1. Early Christianity: Teachings of Christ

2. Standard 6-2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of life in
ancient civilizations and their contributions to the modern world.
Enduring Understanding
The foundations of government, science, technology, and the arts are
legacies of ancient civilizations. To understand that the contributions
of these ancient civilizations have endured and are evident in our society
today, the student will...
6-2.6 Compare the polytheistic belief systems of the Greeks and the
Romans with the origins, foundational beliefs, and spread of Christianity.

3. Analogies of the Trinity
God in three persons:

4. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23

6. What Did Jesus Teach? HE CLAIMED TO BE THE SON OF GOD.
HE CLAIMED TO BE THE MESSIAH.
HE ASKED PEOPLE TO TURN FROM THEIR SINS & REPENT.
He preached that God was coming soon to rule the world
HE OFFERED HIS BELIEVERS ETERNAL LIFE IN PARADISE (living eternally with God.)
OFFERED SALVATION TO RESCUE PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.

7. Other Teachings Teachings of Jesus
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.
Forgive from the heart, not just go through motions of religious laws.
Teachings of Jesus
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
Love & forgive others as God has forgiven people

8. Early Christianity: More History

9. 1. Why did Christianity spread? 3 reasons.
Safe travel/good roads in Roman empire.
Latin or Greek - common language
Christianity = meaning/hope to people
2. How did the Romans treat the Christians and how/when did Rome adopt Christianity?
60s A.D. – persecute (Nero)
312 A.D. – Constantine adopts Christianity
392 A.D. – Theodosius outlaws other religions
3. How was the early church organized? (hierarchy)
Patriarchs – 5 leading AB in charge of large churches & territories
Archbishops – in charge of a region
Bishops – led several churches in an area – diocese
Priests – in charge of leading one church
Laity – churchgoers / members

10. 4. What is the new Testament
4. What is the new Testament? written record of the life of Jesus and his followers 5. Who was the Pope and what are the Christian catacombs? Bishop of Rome – leader of worldwide Roman Catholic Church, infallible. The Christian catacombs were a series of dark, cold, stench filled tunnels used to bury their dead. The catacombs were located under the city of Rome because it was against Roman law to bury dead aboveground. Christians refused to burn the bodies of their dead, which was the Roman custom. They believed that the body would one day be reunited with the soul, therefore they insisted that the bodies of the dead be intact.

11. Christian icons

12. St. Peter One of Jesus' 12 disciples Jewish fisherman Was an apostle
Set up a church in Rome

13. Apostle Paul Persecuted Christians before he converted
Became a Christian on the road to Damascus.
Roman citizen
Founded churches in Eastern Mediterranean.
Martyr who wrote several Epistles that are in the New Testament.

14. St. Augustine Bishop in North Africa
His mother was Christian, but he was not a convert until later in life.
Good student in school that made bad choices
Taught rhetoric & was well educated.
Became a Christian & wrote Confessions & City of God.

15. Benedict Italian Monk Roman Catholic
Wrote the Benedict Rule, which was a list of rules for the monks & nuns.

16. Patrick Was a Catholic Priest in the A.D. 400s.
Brought Christianity to Ireland.
Set up churches & monasteries.
Preserved Christian & Roman learning.

17. Basil Was a Bishop in the Eastern Orthodox church.
Created the Basilian Rule, which was a list of rules for monks and nuns.

18. Cyril Byzantine missionary Carried Christian message to the Slavs
Invented a new alphabet based on Greek letters in about A.D. 863.
Wanted people to be able to worship in their own language.

19. Early Christianity: Religious Arguments

20. Religious Arguments Icons Images of saints
Worshipped & believed to be responsible for miracles
Some Byzantines wanted icons, some not
Emperor Leo III outlaws icons
Sent iconoclasts to break images in churches
Eventually adopted throughout Byzantine church

21. Religious Arguments 2 Pope
Infallible, unquestioned leader of Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholics said leader of worldwide church
Byzantine Emperor Emperor Charlemagne
Byzantines believe their emperor is leader of their church (appoints Patriarch of Constantinople)
Invasions
Pope and Byz. Emperor refuse to help each other during invasions
Pope turn to Franks (French) for help w/invasions
Appoints Frankish king Charlemagne as Emperor
This angers Byzantines
Spilt (schism) into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches The Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople