Letter To Polycarp Religious Realism
Aylah Moraga
Professor Lopez
Western Civilizations
23 March 2016
Life of Polycarp: Religious Realities Polycarp of Smyrna played a huge rule in the early Christian church. He is on of the early Christian’s who’s work actually is still available to this day. He was known to be born around the year 69 but got most of his successful teachings and works done when he was 84 in the year 153. When Polycarp died he was approximately 84 and was known for his death to have been similar to how Jesus died. Polycarp was the twelfth martyr in Smyrna. During this time of Polycarp’s life, the church was strongly disliked by the Roman Empire, in that we can easily understand that Christian’s like Polycarp had it hard.
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The main source for this era that I used was this letter, which was the letter to the Philippians from Polycarp. The one some members in my group and I were able to find useful was his letter to the Philippians. Something about Polycarp was that he gave credit when it was due. In the letter to the Christians of Philippi he included a collection of Ignatius’ letters. In the letter he addressed multiple concerns including the Philippians request for the letters of Ignatius. Polycarp had no problem doing what some asked of him but when he felt like someone was in the wrong he had no problem in correcting them. The reason that they were asking Polycarp out of all people for the letters from Ignatius was because along with Polycarp and Clement, he was one of the Apostolic Fathers. This letter was based of the sole work of Ignatius. His relationship with both Ignatius and Clement had a huge part of a lot of Polycarp’s writing and Polycarp’s over all works in the people and impact on people.
Continuing with the discussion of Polycarp’s letter to the Christians of Philippi, he decided to include a cover letter with his actual letter because of the concerns he had. In that cover letter was the collection of Ignatius’ letters. He then goes on to explain why he wrote a cover letter and gives his reasons as well. One of the reasons was that when he was among the Philippians and Ignatius as well they had wanted him to forward a letter they send to him to the Antioch, so in a sense use him as a messenger. Polycarp uses this letter he is writing to show how he plans on responding to what they asked of
Professor Lopez
Western Civilizations
23 March 2016
Life of Polycarp: Religious Realities Polycarp of Smyrna played a huge rule in the early Christian church. He is on of the early Christian’s who’s work actually is still available to this day. He was known to be born around the year 69 but got most of his successful teachings and works done when he was 84 in the year 153. When Polycarp died he was approximately 84 and was known for his death to have been similar to how Jesus died. Polycarp was the twelfth martyr in Smyrna. During this time of Polycarp’s life, the church was strongly disliked by the Roman Empire, in that we can easily understand that Christian’s like Polycarp had it hard.
Christians were not allowed to show …show more content…
The main source for this era that I used was this letter, which was the letter to the Philippians from Polycarp. The one some members in my group and I were able to find useful was his letter to the Philippians. Something about Polycarp was that he gave credit when it was due. In the letter to the Christians of Philippi he included a collection of Ignatius’ letters. In the letter he addressed multiple concerns including the Philippians request for the letters of Ignatius. Polycarp had no problem doing what some asked of him but when he felt like someone was in the wrong he had no problem in correcting them. The reason that they were asking Polycarp out of all people for the letters from Ignatius was because along with Polycarp and Clement, he was one of the Apostolic Fathers. This letter was based of the sole work of Ignatius. His relationship with both Ignatius and Clement had a huge part of a lot of Polycarp’s writing and Polycarp’s over all works in the people and impact on people.
Continuing with the discussion of Polycarp’s letter to the Christians of Philippi, he decided to include a cover letter with his actual letter because of the concerns he had. In that cover letter was the collection of Ignatius’ letters. He then goes on to explain why he wrote a cover letter and gives his reasons as well. One of the reasons was that when he was among the Philippians and Ignatius as well they had wanted him to forward a letter they send to him to the Antioch, so in a sense use him as a messenger. Polycarp uses this letter he is writing to show how he plans on responding to what they asked of