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The early church, pt. 2 -- Houses Divided

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Penitential Cycle

The system, set up by cyprian, is the ning of what later scholars would call the penitential cycle. Once you have done that penance, then the church can give you the eucharist again. You effectively rejoin the body of the church and are able to eat the eucharistic bread once again. There also was a great development of sermonizing and homiletics,. right practices and methods for how leaders of the church should preach and teach. In the church, theology was brought to a new kind of level. So teachings about the nature of god, the nature of christ, about sin and salvation, all o this could be developed in a sophisticated

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