Frontline: Similarities Between Christianity And Christianity
Western Civilization
February 18, 2010
Essay Question 1
According to our lecture notes and Frontline’s “From Jesus to Christ” there exist similarities between Christianity and Mithraism, the Essenes, Pharisees and Sadducees. For example in comparison with the Mithraism, Christianity also believes that Jesus (Messiah) was born from a virgin mother and that shepherds attended his birth. Both Mithraism and Christianity believed that there was a hell and a heaven and that good versus evil existed. These two religions worship on Sundays, celebrate with bread and wine, believe in resurrection and conduct baptisms.
From the same sources I gather that Pharisees and Christianity had some similarities as well. Pharisees also believed that …show more content…
Constantine becomes a powerful asset to Christianity when he consolidates his power after conquering the West and the Greek East. These cities are composed of mainly Christians. He persecutes other Christians seeking to make a unity. Constantine also dedicates his attention to Jerusalem and he builds “beautiful basilicas and architecturally ambitious projects in the city itself...And what he does is [to] religiously relocate the center of gravity of the city around the places where Christ had suffered, where he had been buried, or where he [had] been raised.” (Frontline, From Jesus to Christ”) Bishops use Constantine’s good mood and interest of Christology, the Trinity and Church organization to have bibles copied at the public’s expense. Christians can finally worship openly with their architectures and huge basilicas. The future of the Church depended on unity and protection from enemies. According to the Roman Timeline Handout, the church developed Boards of Presbyters, Deacons and then Bishops. They all followed certain rules and abided by Apostolic Succession. It seems that Christianity would not have been able to survive its early years without this internal sturdy …show more content…
These departments included the grain supply, the water supply, the building of roads bridges, tax collection and provisioning of armies. Politically speaking Augustus “wanted advice without consent. A committee of senators and magistrates served as a permanent advisory body.” (Roman Empire Chapter) Augustus cut the size of the military down from 50 legions to only 28. This would assist in getting rid of renegade army commanders and lightened the burden of taxes. Socially things were great under Augustus’ leadership;” urban poor enjoyed a more efficient system of free grain distribution and a large increase in games and public entertainment” (Roman Empire Chapter) From this comes the term “bread and circuses”; which included entertainment like gladiator battles, mock sea battles and Circus
February 18, 2010
Essay Question 1
According to our lecture notes and Frontline’s “From Jesus to Christ” there exist similarities between Christianity and Mithraism, the Essenes, Pharisees and Sadducees. For example in comparison with the Mithraism, Christianity also believes that Jesus (Messiah) was born from a virgin mother and that shepherds attended his birth. Both Mithraism and Christianity believed that there was a hell and a heaven and that good versus evil existed. These two religions worship on Sundays, celebrate with bread and wine, believe in resurrection and conduct baptisms.
From the same sources I gather that Pharisees and Christianity had some similarities as well. Pharisees also believed that …show more content…
Constantine becomes a powerful asset to Christianity when he consolidates his power after conquering the West and the Greek East. These cities are composed of mainly Christians. He persecutes other Christians seeking to make a unity. Constantine also dedicates his attention to Jerusalem and he builds “beautiful basilicas and architecturally ambitious projects in the city itself...And what he does is [to] religiously relocate the center of gravity of the city around the places where Christ had suffered, where he had been buried, or where he [had] been raised.” (Frontline, From Jesus to Christ”) Bishops use Constantine’s good mood and interest of Christology, the Trinity and Church organization to have bibles copied at the public’s expense. Christians can finally worship openly with their architectures and huge basilicas. The future of the Church depended on unity and protection from enemies. According to the Roman Timeline Handout, the church developed Boards of Presbyters, Deacons and then Bishops. They all followed certain rules and abided by Apostolic Succession. It seems that Christianity would not have been able to survive its early years without this internal sturdy …show more content…
These departments included the grain supply, the water supply, the building of roads bridges, tax collection and provisioning of armies. Politically speaking Augustus “wanted advice without consent. A committee of senators and magistrates served as a permanent advisory body.” (Roman Empire Chapter) Augustus cut the size of the military down from 50 legions to only 28. This would assist in getting rid of renegade army commanders and lightened the burden of taxes. Socially things were great under Augustus’ leadership;” urban poor enjoyed a more efficient system of free grain distribution and a large increase in games and public entertainment” (Roman Empire Chapter) From this comes the term “bread and circuses”; which included entertainment like gladiator battles, mock sea battles and Circus