Lesson 16 master of Christian history
The Middle Ages was a very lively time. Medieval church history took place upon a much wider stage than ancient church history did. As a consequence of the Teutonic tribes being won to Christianity and the mass conversions along with the forming of monasticism .Pope Gregory I ,was a link between two worlds, the classical and the medieval. He became a symbol of the new medieval world all that is modern and creative for the society of the day, where in culture became institutionalized within the church presided by the bishop of Rome. Those men who came after Pope Gregory I used the foundations that he laid to further develop the sacramental hierarchy that would shape the church in the Middle Ages. Pope Gregory I arranged Christian doctrine in an orderly fashion, and he made the church a significant player in secular political disputes.
Pope Gregory is also noted for creating seven monasteries from his own pocket which also encouraged the church to develop with its missions in adjacent lands .
The church in the west through monasticism could have eventually created the medieval church due to the decline of the roman empire and the conversion of so many persons to the Christian faith ,it could be said that pope Gregory was in the right place at the right time being able to fund new monasteries and new teachings.
Gregory believed that humanity was a sinner by nature and choice, but he softened Augustine's view of it by saying that human beings did not inherit guilt from Adam but only sin which all are subject. He believed in the verbal inspiration of Scripture, but he gave tradition an equal position with Scripture. He changed a little the Canon of the Mass which continued to show how the Eucharist was a sacrifice anew of Christ's body and blood each time it is observed. Gregory also stressed good works and the entreaty of the saints in order to gain their help. As such Pope Gregory was a great theologian. Along with Jerome, Ambrose, and Augustine. Along with writing books and being a theologian pope Gregory also prevented war by becoming one of the wealthiest popes he was able to raise an army and force a piece with the Aryan army and had them converted he sent a bishop to inland to introduce Catholicism and remove Celtic Christianity.
Rev. Andrew Longsden
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