Maybe a badly written title, but the challenge here is to have books of the bible telling stories up to the time of the crusades, at least, that are seen in the same way that other books of the New Testament are, rather than just some "extra stuff".
Maybe a badly written title, but the challenge here is to have books of the bible telling stories up to the time of the crusades, at least, that are seen in the same way that other books of the New Testament are, rather than just some "extra stuff".
Prevent the Bible's complete canonization until after a "crusade" like age occurs, where the established religious authority deems some of the books/stories written up until those times to be of divine origin and have it be Catholic to the Christian Faith. You can also do this by shattering the Council of Nicea's rulings should the Eastern Roman Empire fall faster and its supremacy challenged by regional locations.Maybe a badly written title, but the challenge here is to have books of the bible telling stories up to the time of the crusades, at least, that are seen in the same way that other books of the New Testament are, rather than just some "extra stuff".
I thought it was because Luther just hated the Jews?![]()
Yes, that was Luther's perspective on the Jews, more or less.IIRC Luther just began hating jews after he was done and satisfied with his teachings.
I imagined ot somewhat on these lines:
Luther: "Hey my dear jewish friends I recently corrected Christianity! Time for you guys to join!"
Jew: "No"
Luther: "You dirty little @#$@#"
James 2:14-19 said:What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
Perhaps Islam evolves as more of an adjunct to Christianity, along the lines of the Eastern Orthodox or Coptic faiths.
Wouldn't work. A lot of the Dead Sea Scrolls is older texts of the Old Testament canon; bringing them back to Europe might start an earlier tradition of textual criticism (with interesting effects in itself!) but nothing else. The rest are clearly Jewish, largely apocalyptic or mystical, works which no medieval Crusader would come close to accepting. The Qumran community was Essene, which is a Jewish (largely heretical) sect; Gnostics were a very distinct Christian (heretical) sect.What about something akin to the Dead Sea scrolls being discovered by the Crusaders, who then take that knowledge back to Europe? Or the Gospel of Mary or of Gospel of Nicodemus. Basically any of the Gnostic texts.
I think what he meant was Nag Hammadi, which was... ecclectic, to say the least. Not to mention Oxyrynchus.Wouldn't work. A lot of the Dead Sea Scrolls is older texts of the Old Testament canon; bringing them back to Europe might start an earlier tradition of textual criticism (with interesting effects in itself!) but nothing else. The rest are clearly Jewish, largely apocalyptic or mystical, works which no medieval Crusader would come close to accepting. The Qumran community was Essene, which is a Jewish (largely heretical) sect; Gnostics were a very distinct Christian (heretical) sect.
...as much as the Popes were leaders of the Church, I don't see them doing that; later ones would probably be continually undermining the earlier ones' authority. It helped their position that the corpus was standardized and immovable.I like the idea of Popes writing their own addenda, too.
Besides, I doubt people would accept a book written by a decadent or corrupt pope....as much as the Popes were leaders of the Church, I don't see them doing that; later ones would probably be continually undermining the earlier ones' authority. It helped their position that the corpus was standardized and immovable.
Prevent the Bible's complete canonization until after a "crusade" like age occurs, where the established religious authority deems some of the books/stories written up until those times to be of divine origin and have it be Catholic to the Christian Faith. You can also do this by shattering the Council of Nicea's rulings should the Eastern Roman Empire fall faster and its supremacy challenged by regional locations.