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What is the Nature of reality? God?
Who is God? |
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| God is pure, holy and without corruption. He cannot be approached by ......... |
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| What is the nature of reality: The physical world? |
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| The world and humans and society are all fallen and corrupted by sin |
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| How do Humans know this reality? (epistemology) |
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Authority.... based on knowledge
Intuitive....through silence, speak intimately
-God speaks to me in my quiet community |
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How should We Act in response to this reality?
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-we are too easily infatuated w/ sin and the corrupting influences of the world
-easily desire what the fallen culture offers; pleasures of food, drink, things and sex |
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| How should we act in response to this reality? |
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| -we must flee the corrupting influence of the world and seek an ascetic life consciously separating ourselves from worldly people, things, and communities |
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| How should we act in response to this reality? |
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| We follow God, the community rules and the mandates of our abbot. |
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Introduction: Tuning out the world: a clash of values
Modern community: NOISE
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-pervasive media
-portable electronic media
-the noise of perpetual activity |
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| are so foreign to our way of thinking |
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diocletian persecution
-christians flee to the desert to avoid persecution |
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| Religious tolerations mandated by Constantine |
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Church under Constantine:
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-first emperor to favor Christianity
-Stops persecution
-over decades faith gets sucked down by sectional oppression |
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1. decline in the standards
2. casual faith
3. more clergy: lower quality
4. "religious" vs. personal because deep personal faith turns into "religion" appearances of faith, a personal commitment |
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Secularized Christianity is too easy.
Conservative response is to ...... |
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-flee to the desert.
-initial group fled to save their lives
-under Constantine, purify the faith |
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-battle against Satan and seeking God
-practiced the "discipline"
-body/soul dualism |
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-rise of Asceticism
-by punishing body you purify your soul |
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| a person who lives alone and apart from society for religious meditation |
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| monks who live in isolation but occasionally come together for worship, teaching, service, or various other reasons |
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| obvious presence of God in his life |
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| cenobitical communities are communities made up of cenobites, monks, nuns, persons who are members of a religious order usually attached to a monastery or convent |
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| What did pachomis develope? |
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| a list of standards or rules for the community |
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-born in 340
-preaching monk in Italy preached against the local bishop and his lax ways |
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-called to Rome to be advisor to Pope; monastic community in Bethlehem
-critic of the church again
-Pope died, Jerome moved to Bethlehem where he started a monastery |
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| -Lived there he lived for 32 years and wrote the latin translation of the bible, the Vulgate Bible |
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480-543
Roman Empire under siege from Barbarians
What did Benedict become? |
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-became an anchorite
-became famous and gathered disciples
monte casino was his first monastery and it lasted for 1500/1600 years from then til now; Monte cassino was in Italy and was damaged by WWII
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| Did Benedict write the RULE OF ST. BENEDICT ? |
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| What were the Moderate rules of St. Benedict ? |
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1. could eat twice a day
2. would have vegetables
3. get a blanket & pillow |
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| Characteristics of a monastic community |
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1. permanence
2. obedience
3.discipline
4.work
5. divine office |
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divine office:
rhythm included |
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1. Matins during the NIGHT
2.lauds or DAWN
3. prime or early morning 6AM
4. terce or mid 9AM
5. sext or midday NOON
6. none or mid 9th hour, 3PM
7.vespers EVENING (LIGHTING OF THE LAMPS)
8. compline NIGHT PRAYER, BEFORE RETIRING |
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1. obedience
2. humility
3.silence |
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- carriers of culture
-economic impact
-Missions:
st. patrick of Ireland 390-460
Boniface of Germany 680-754 |
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| What kind of services did Monasteries perform? |
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1. became the libraries of the middle ages. Copied Books (including and especially scriptures) as a main vocation
2. schooling for people was another service
3. became hospitals and pharmacies
4. they were the hostels, the hotels of the middle ages |
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