Chapter 15: Middle Ages page 162

Notes:

• Sophie gets a postcard that read "Hilde Moller Knag, c/o Sophie Amundsen
• Then Alberto Knox called Sophie on the phone. page 164
• Alberto Knox told her there will be no more letters.
• Sophie meets him at a church.
• From the year 380 Christianity was the official religion throughout the entire Roman Empire page 167
• In 395 the Roman Empire was divided in two- a western Empire with Rome as its center, and an Eastern Empire with the new city of Constantinople as its capital.
• 529 the year when church closed Plato's Academy in Athens.
• The Middle Ages actually means the period between two other epochs. (distinctive period of time)
• The school system, for instance was developed in the Middle Ages.
• The first centuries after year 400 really were a cultural decline.
• Christianity gradually became the predominant philosophy of the life.
• Therefore we usually speak of Middle ages as being a unifying force of Christian culture.
• The point is that at the end of the Middle ages, all three streams came together in Northern Italy.

It was an ancient Christian and Jewish belief that God was not only a man. He also had a female side, mother nature. Women too, are In Greek in God's likeness. In Greek, this female side of God is called Sophia "means wisdom"