Christianity's Early Influence In The Middle Ages

As one empire rises another falls and such a cycle is not one that is likely to end, after all, playing nicely will lead to death. However, while physical empires may fade, spiritual ones remain behind. They stick in our minds and move through the ages, partially forgotten, and touch our everyday actions and choices, as well as our changing cultures and ideologies. They bind us to our past and remind us of how different we are, creating boundaries where there previously had been none. Their importance easily and often overlooked. However, even in our modern age ancient empires touch us, reaching out from every facet of our lives. The portion of a spiritual empire that will and does live on, persevering through new ones and corrupting the nature of them, forcing them to bend or be broken, is the superstitious one. These concepts are evidenced in nearly every aspect …show more content…
However, that was only one part of the overall reason that it stuck, I subscribed to the unfortunate belief that this was a period of slowed or plateaued scientific development in most areas. The blame was, due to my knowledge of Christianity’s early influence in Europe, placed at the feet of the church with no real consideration given to the reasoning behind scientific decisions of the time or to how the church was able to so thoroughly spread and keep hold of such a large area. The key to this, flexibility, was revealed throughout the class, slowly moving the nature of my views regarding religion’s effect on this period into a more positive direction. I grew to appreciate the amount of effort they put into making Christianity logical and adapting it so that it could survive as well as the amount of mental fortitude it would take to be a devout follower and the comfort that the concept of salvation could