Discuss early christian and medieval education.

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In history the medieval or middle ages refers tot eh period between fall of Roman
Empire and the renaissance (3rd to 13th century AD). This period was marked by Christian influence all over the Roman Empire. This means that the Christianity institutionalized in the roman catholic other churches had not come up. Church was tosustain the civilization at that time. The first Christians were Jews. Christianity introduced in 1st century to the Jews. Christianity borrowed a lot from the Jewish religion Judaism e.g.

· Idea of sacred history beginning from creation also called salvation history
· Idea of being a chosen race – through Abraham Christians feel they are the elite of God – chosen elect of God
· A new understanding of righteousness – based on fate for both Judaism and Christianity Law/Decalogue
· A commandments
· Idea of kingdom of heaven

To both Christianity and Judaism, life on earth is preparation for life after.

· Idea of the messiah – Jews are still waiting, Christians saw the coming of Christ as fulfillment of coming of messiah.
· Monotheism – belief in one god Christianity came into conflict with grace or the roman couture – Hellenistic. This was now a mixture of roman and Greek conflicting ideas were;

· Idea of being a chosen race was not acceptable.
· Only one religion is good
· Plato’s and Aristotle’s idea of man conflicted with the Christian one because it was to have complete intellectual being/Mau whereas the Christians were emphasizing on the moral man.
· Intellectual and aesthetic elements which were very important to Romans were not important to Christians – they were preparing for the ones to come
· Early Christians were opposed to some pagan practices practiced by the Romans e.g. gladiator shows (fights until one of them is killed) man + man or man + animal and divorce – easy for the Romans, infanticide by Romans
(child exposure).

Religious practices of Romans were immoral according to Christians. Romans had many deities/gods

marto answered the question on May 17, 2019 at 07:12

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