…Christian in the 5th century. Now one of the paradoxical calamities of Christianity was that after Rome had been christianized, it fell Augustine. The whole point really of st Augustine's City of god is, yes the city of man has fallen but the city of…

…god to rationalize this disaster and to say that the city of man has collapsed but the city of god has triumphed. Now Augustine was a North African, of course so again we don't have the Europeans. Meanwhile there were a number of heresies a great number…

…gained by the crucifixion of Christ that the individual is to be saved. Well this was the first great heresy that Augustine Lost himself against. Without original sin, without the inheritance of original sin, the whole doctrine of the necessity for the…

…rendered the administration of sacraments questionable all the time. Who knows what the moral condition of the priest is? And again Augustine let go at the donatist heresy with the doctrine of the incorruptibility of the sacraments, that no matter what the…

…the love of the virgin, to deify his couple and to sanctify their love. The bed is the altar. The altar is a bed. Augustine himself brought forth that image. It is on the altar that Christ is brought into the bread and wine by the miraculous words of…

…made of the suffering of jesus. There's another kind of crucifix which is called Christ's Triumphant, where he's there eyes open and Augustine says Christ went to the cross as a bridegroom to his bride and there is the imitation of Christ Moving into life…

…made of the suffering of jesus. There's another kind of crucifix which is called Christ's Triumphant, where he's there, eyes open, and Augustine says: Christ went to the cross as a bride groomed to his bride, and there is the imitation of Christ Moving…

…I, whose dates are about 378 to 395, proclaiming Christianity the only religion permitted within the roman empire, and with Augustine as the interpreter of the doctrines, the accepted, basically the accepted interpreter you have a system that is set up…

…as crucifixes go, those that are called Christ in triumph where he's there eyes open in victory on the cross, because st Augustine says somewhere that jesus went to the cross as a bridegroom to the bride with the zeal sacrificed god. That's right which…

…and not only Christianity but the Christianity of Byzantium. This is the end of the 4th century. It's the period of Augustine, St Augustine, and st Augustine a North African, was the principal statesman state of the theological position that was to be…

…the Christianity of Byzantium. This is the end of the 4th century. It's the period of Augustine, St Augustine, and st Augustine a North African, was the principal statesman state of the theological position that was to be allowed. Rome had taken Britain…

…and so forth and so on. And with that you can open the eye. This is in the end of the 4th century while Augustine is condemning this very doctrine. You can see what the notion of an inheritance of sin means. It means you're not an individual, you…

…Then we have the christianization of that roman empire, however in terms of a dogma, largely in the mode of st Augustine, but undoubtedly gnostic material as well. This other Christianity was there also. Then the romans withdraw. We have this collision of…

…this appears back in the fourth century. The idea was the sacraments, when dispensed by an unworthy clergy, are not effective. Augustine says no the sacrament is uncorruptible and the condition of the clergy doesn't matter. So they got the full load of…

…there was this heresy known as the donatist heresy that declared that sacraments administered by immoral clergymen did not work and Augustine said: no the sacrament is incorruptible and it doesn't matter. So it didn't matter and the result was what they had…

…Christian texts. These were the christianities that were condemned by the byzantine throne at the time of Theodosius and saint Augustine, and they are possible christianities. And among the texts that have been translated now is the gospel according to…

…in time which involves the breaking up of the one into the many and the acceptance of the sufferings of the world saint Augustine says this somewhere where he says jesus went to the cross as a bridegroom to the bride that's a total transformation of the…

…been found in 1945, the gospel according to Thomas which was buried to protect it from the vandals of Theodosius and saint Augustine. The disciples asked jesus: when will the kingdom come? And he says: the kingdom will not come by expectation. They will…