Jun 1 Chapters 10-12
questions
Don Enss
Chapter 10. Christ
is come: Plato and Christianity
11. What
was the real secret to Christianity’s success in the late Roman and Greek
world?
22. What
does Herman consider the key factor to explain Christianity’s amazing spread?
33. A
man “should take each moment and hold it tenderly in his hands,” Origen later
wrote, in order “to examine what other possible meaning it may hold, what other
purpose or end.” What was that defining moment for Origen?
4.4. What
did Origen do “in order to free himself from his libidinal energies?”
Chapter 11. Toward
the Heavenly City
11. “Eusebius,
however, felt no compunction in explaining how everything that had happened in
the Christian Church since the Crucifixion – all the apostolic labors, all the
sudden conversions, all the persecutions and martyrdoms – had led inexorably to
this miraculous event.” What was this event?
22. What
did Lactantius’s professor, Arnobius, predict about wars?
33. What
was the major step of the Council of Nicaea?
44. What
will be the catchphrase of the early Middle Ages that will have a “sweeping
impact on Western culture for the next thousand years and beyond?”
Chapter 12. Inquiring
Minds: Aristotle Strikes Back
11. In
Boethius’s dream, who was the woman who came to stand beside and comfort him in
prison?
22. According
to Herman, “Boethius is the first Christian thinker to realize,” what?
33. “Above
all, Boethius treated Plato and Aristotle as the essential anchors of a
civilized education. It’s a point of view that linked Boethius not only to the
Middle Ages, which read his works with passionate devotion, but indirectly to
every college and university today that still teaches what his world, and ours,
call,” what?
44. Aristotle said, “All men desire to know.”
Peter Abelard added what to that statement?
Great questions, Don. I've read everything twice, as well as scoured the pages for Dr. Olivers inquiries, yet I'm at a loss for many of the answers to your questions. Third time's a charm?
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ReplyDelete1. Was Origen the first to make the connection between sexuality and and being "unclean"?
2. Was Arnobius right to any extent about the nature of war? Has what we war over changed since his time?
3. Both Constantine and Boethius have dreams that either foretell future events or show some important realization. I this a common belief of their time? Who else shares their beliefs?
I'm so glad you brought up the "unclean" connection, Devon. Herman notes on page 156 that "Origen was the first Christian thinker to make the conscience, Socrates's "daimon," or inner voice the focus of moral life." When I read this passage, the first thing that came to my mind was thought crime. If this is so, then that inner voice in the hands of an angry, jealous god is a double-edged sword--pun intended. These last three chapters are more like a sprint than a stroll.
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