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| Why study history? | gives us an understanding of who we are |
| Why study Church History? | learn how Christians have lived out the gospel |
| The City of Rome fell in | 410 C.E. |
| apologists | defenders of the faith |
| Council of Nicaea | was a major defining moment for the Church |
| 100-400 CE saw dramatic | changes for the Church |
| the present developed | out of past events |
| assisting bishops in the early Church | were deacons and deaconesses |
| Constantine | altered the Church's power and status |
| "Our hearts are restless, Lord | until they rest in Thee." Augustine |
| the purpose of Christiany is to build | The City of God |
| The Confessions | the autobiography of Augustine |
| knowing our personal history | can help us to make better future-decisions |
| too cozy a relationship between | Church and state robs the Church of its voice |
| apostates | people who renounce their faith |
| Christiany became legal in | 313 C.E. |
| Agustine saw Rome as symbolic of | The City of Man |
| the Church, over its history | has been moved and shaped by God's Spirits |
| Romans 13:13 | "Let us live honorable as in the day" |
| spreading the Word of God costs | many their lives |
| invasions of the Vikings all over Europe | spurred a growth of feudalism |
| :landlord" serfs was considered a "lord" to his | serfs but a "vassal" to his higher lord |
| above a serf was their immediate | landlord |
| in feudal times people had a keen sense | that their destiny lay with God |
| monastery at Cluny opened a way for | Church to free itself from civil control |
| bishops and abbots were often | powerful lords of feudal estates |
| in East an emperor typically controlled | patriarch of Constantinople |
| feudalism was a polticial and economic | system based on a pyramid structure |
| "higher lord" owned a whole | feudal estate i.e fief or manor |
| entire estate of a lord was a | self-sufficient unit with no help outside |
| church had a major role in | fedual system |
| Charlemagne's vision of a strong empire | vanished in 1800s with Vikings |
| during a feudal period church | became a landowner in Europe |
| feudalism became a dominant | organzing system in Europe |
| lords and wealthy vassals lived in | castles on their estates |
| between 896 to 900 | there were six different popes |
| a king was a grand landlord | of his region |
| with a lord and his vassals would live | lord's lady, their children and knights |
| for many centuries before their breakup | East and West faced tension and rivalry |
| at a bottom of a fuedal pyramid were | serfs who worked a piece of land |
