Medieval period (450 - 1450) created by Karen Ongcol

2. Medieval Christianity
Medieval Period (450 – 1450)

3. Medieval Period
- Medieval comes from the Latin words 'med' (meaning
middle) and 'eval' (meaning age).
- Also known as Middle Age or Dark Ages.
Three Classes:
1. Nobility – knights, kings, queens, prince and princesses.
2. Clergy – priests, monks (only powerful and educated)
3. Peasants – lower class

4. Characteristics:
O Pervasiveness of Christianity.
O People were deeply religious, and religion inserted itself
into all aspects of medieval life and society.
O The medieval Church had a great deal of influence and
power.
O High-ranking clergy members would often have more
influence, wealth and power than many secular (non-
religious) rulers.

6. • Constantine was born in
Naissus or Nish in
modern Serbia probably
from 274 to 288 CE.
• His parents were
Constantius, an
emperor, and Elena, a
Christian.
• When Constantius died
in 306 CE, his troops
proclaimed him
Augustus.

8. What did Constantine
do for the Christians?
O he favored Christianity openly and
supported it in every way .
O Christianity as full equality with the
religions in the empire.
O the abolition of death on the cross.
O gave the church permission to
accept bequests and donations and
decreed Sunday as a public
holiday.
In this council, Constantine was known as the Pontifex Maximus which
means “the greatest bridge-maker.”

9. Church faced a truly new world situation:
O Constantine was wary of alienating his pagan subjects by
seizing their sites and temples.
O a prophet of Apollo was tortured at Antioch, another at
Didyma was forced to confess to fraud, and a shrine of
Aphrodite was razed at the site of the crucifixion at
Jerusalem.
O Decreed that all pagan temples should close and he
prohibited sacrifices to the gods on pain of death.
O Christians turned from persecuted to persecutors.

10. Christianity: “Education as
an instrument of salvation”

11. O Christianity came from Christ, the Greek word for Messiah.
O Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based
on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the
New Testament. Christianity is the world's largest religion.
O It was founded on Judaism – also a monotheistic religion.
O Offered a new ethical force – humanitarianism – that
provided the education for all.
O Jesus – one of the three greatest teachers, the other two
being Socrates and Gautama.

12. Church Officials:
1. Pope – “Papa”, means father, the head
2. Vicarius Filii Dei – Latin: Vicar or
Representative of the Son of God, named the
universal head of Roman Catholic Church.
3. Archbishops – supervised provinces or
archdioceses.
4. Bishops – oversaw dioceses and nearby areas.
5. Priests – took care of parishes in towns and
cities.

13. Aims:
OMoral regeneration and
salvation of an individual
OReform of the society

14. Types of Education
O Moral and religious training. (given to prepare the
child or convert for baptism. Believed to be necessary
to save individual souls and to convert their
fellowmen)
O No physical or aesthetic training, only musical training
in relation to church services.
O Intellectual education. (none at first but converts on
the educated class were trained later on to meet
opponents and heretics.)

15. Content:
O Basic instruction to fit candidates for baptism,
basic elements of church doctrine, church rituals
and moral virtues of Christ like living.
O Eliminated were: physical training, art, science,
literature, and rhetoric because their origins
were Pagan and, therefore, full of vices and
corruption.)

16. Methods
O As sole agency for education: impromptu exposition
and exhortation
O In home: method of example
O In schools established: catechetical
(pertaining to teaching by question and answer.)
method and rote recitation (pupils memorized to
answer questions)

17. Early Christian Schools
1. Catechumenal Schools
- new converts, or probationers
-give adequate introductory lessons on the basic
doctrine and dogmas of the church.
- catechumens were prepared for baptism
(required by the probationers and trial for Christian life
before they could be accepted as full-fledge members
of the church.)

18. 2. Catechetical Schools
- new converts progressed in learning the
doctrines of the church and were given in-depth training
- helped in becoming steadfast in their faith and
strong against attacks of other beliefs and mysticisms.
- established by catechists to prepare adults for
baptism in early Christian church
3. Episcopal Schools
- organized by the Bishops to train the clergy in
the Churches under their supervision.
-it is housed in cathedrals/ cathedral schools

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