Tag: christianity
Tag: christianity
5 pages tagged christianity.
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Chapter 34: Stoicism’s Influence on Christian Ethics — Stoicism 101
The threads of Stoic thought woven into early Christian morality — universal brotherhood, mastery over passion, endurance of suffering — and the metaphysical points where the two traditions cleanly part ways.
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Chapter 17: Jesus Christ and His Times — World History 101
Roman-occupied Judaea, the Jewish search for a messiah, Jesus’s crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, and the explosive early spread of Christianity through Paul of Tarsus.
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Chapter 26: The Holy Roman Emperor — World History 101
How Charlemagne’s coronation by Pope Leo III in 800 CE simultaneously created the medieval European monarchy, transformed the papacy into a kingmaker, and laid the political groundwork for the Holy Roman Empire that would rule Western Europe for the next thousand years.
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Chapter 27: The Great Schism of 1054 — World History 101
The polite, paper-shuffling event that permanently split Christianity into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox halves — and why a fight that looked minor at the time turned out to be one of the most durable institutional ruptures in history.
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Chapter 28: The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition — World History 101
How the same medieval Latin Christianity that produced the Nine Worthies and Carolingian learning also produced four centuries of religious warfare and a state-sponsored regime of torture and forced conversion — and what these institutions tell us about religion as a vehicle for political power.
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