JUDAISM and EARLY CHRISTIANITY

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JUDAISM and EARLY CHRISTIANITY
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Solomons Temple
ca. 1000 BCE
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Catacombs
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Galla Placidia ca. 425-26
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• Mithraismfrom Persia and probably India.
  Worship a sun god like Ra or Apollo. Celebrated
  the rebirth of the sun after longest night. It
  was very widespread in Roman empire. It
  contained sacrifice, baptism, communal meal, but
  not open to womenlimited growth potential.
  Christianity adopted 12/25 and reworked it to fit
  the new faith.
• Christianitykoine Greek, 312 Edict of Milan
  ended persecutions.

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Western writingsAugustine and Boethius

• Augustine of Hippo born 354 wrote an apology The
  City of God (412) and contained rules and
  defended Christianity against the claim that they
  were responsible for the decline and fall of the
  Roman Empire.
• Influence of Augustine was immense (until St.
  Thomas).
• Augustine invented the self-reflective style
  (autobiography) in his Confessions, a trilogy of
  confessing Im a sinner, confessing God is
  king, and confessing of praise.
• Boethiusstraddled paganism and Christianity
• The Consolation of Philosophyletters from
  prisonwe have freedom and God is in control.