city of god
Perpetua-
Pliny and Trajan Correspondence- Pliny opens the letter by bringing forth the Christian trials taken before him. He has questions: -Should any distinction be made by the age of the Christian? Should the young be treated different from the mature? -Does denying being a Christian mean the accused is pardoned? -is Christianity name itself enough to condemn the accused or is it the crimes associated with being a Christian?
Christians would be interrogated to confess Christian beliefs and would be threatened with death. If they didn’t give up the beliefs then they would be executed. Pliny then details the practices of the Christians saying they’d sing hymns to Christ as god. They all blind themselves by oath. Romans would use torture in interrogations of slaves
Nero- Corrupt emperor with lavish parties with prostitutes. Had one crazy party Fire set in Rome, and many people had thought that Nero set the fire during the time of the fire he wasn’t in Rome but during the conflagration he was singing a song about the destruction of Troy. Nero was blamed. People are angry but he tries to make up for it.
He offered gardens for spectacles of torture.
Augustine “City Of God” pg 59- Refute the pagan charges that said that the Christian’s brought the fall of Rome.
Pagans said that people should worship old gods in order to achieve material advantages in this world.
Augustine attacks the pagans and says that misfortune happens to all. He says that Rome had fallen before even when their gods were worshipped. 2 cities are brought in constant contrast 1. City of God 2. Earthly City
Key Ideas: LOVE IS THE CENTER OF LIFE
But love has to be correctly ordered- priorities
GRACE IS NECESSARY EVEN AFTER CONVERSION Humans are weak and need gods help
EVIL HAS NO POSITIVE EXISTANCE Evil is a corruption of the good
-Augustine focuses on how the two cities will end in book XIX, and in the process he outlines the nature
Pliny and Trajan Correspondence- Pliny opens the letter by bringing forth the Christian trials taken before him. He has questions: -Should any distinction be made by the age of the Christian? Should the young be treated different from the mature? -Does denying being a Christian mean the accused is pardoned? -is Christianity name itself enough to condemn the accused or is it the crimes associated with being a Christian?
Christians would be interrogated to confess Christian beliefs and would be threatened with death. If they didn’t give up the beliefs then they would be executed. Pliny then details the practices of the Christians saying they’d sing hymns to Christ as god. They all blind themselves by oath. Romans would use torture in interrogations of slaves
Nero- Corrupt emperor with lavish parties with prostitutes. Had one crazy party Fire set in Rome, and many people had thought that Nero set the fire during the time of the fire he wasn’t in Rome but during the conflagration he was singing a song about the destruction of Troy. Nero was blamed. People are angry but he tries to make up for it.
He offered gardens for spectacles of torture.
Augustine “City Of God” pg 59- Refute the pagan charges that said that the Christian’s brought the fall of Rome.
Pagans said that people should worship old gods in order to achieve material advantages in this world.
Augustine attacks the pagans and says that misfortune happens to all. He says that Rome had fallen before even when their gods were worshipped. 2 cities are brought in constant contrast 1. City of God 2. Earthly City
Key Ideas: LOVE IS THE CENTER OF LIFE
But love has to be correctly ordered- priorities
GRACE IS NECESSARY EVEN AFTER CONVERSION Humans are weak and need gods help
EVIL HAS NO POSITIVE EXISTANCE Evil is a corruption of the good
-Augustine focuses on how the two cities will end in book XIX, and in the process he outlines the nature