Troubles with the Medieval Church
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Troubles with the Medieval Church
• In 1300, the Church of the High Middle Ages, centralized in the Papacy, was at its strongest. But the Church was weakened by it very success.
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The Unam Sanctum
• Edward I of England, Phillip the Fair of France and Pope Boniface VIII– Could the King tax Church lands and Clergy
• “Unam Sanctum” 1302– Most extreme of all assertions of Papal supremacy– “Every human creature was subject to the Roman Pontiff
(Pope)– Phillip the Fair sent troops to arrest Boniface, he soon died
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Babylonian Captivity
• The death of Boniface VIII brought about the election of a Pope who was subservient to Phillip the Fair– The Pope took his residence in the French border city of
Avignon• The rest of Europe regarded the Popes at Avignon as
tools of France• Thus began the Babylonian Captivity (1303-1417)
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Great Schism of the West• In 1378 the College of Cardinals elected two Popes-
one at Rome one at Avignon• French and their supporters recocognized the Pope
at Avignon, the English and Germans the Pope at Rome
• During the Babylonian Captivity and the Great Schism there begins to be complaints at the worldliness of the Church
• Key Point: all of this was occuring in the same generation as the plague
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Wycliff and Huss• Jon Wyclif- by 1380 Wyclif was saying that the true
Church could do without elaborate possessions and even that an organized Church might not be necessary for salvation. Lollards.
• Wyclif translated the Bible into English• John Huss led what became a nationalistic religious
movement in Bohemia-also protested against the supremacy of the Germans.
• Council of Constance 1414– Replaced three Popes with one; Martin V– Burned John Huss at the stake for heresy
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Simony, Nepotism, Pluralism
• Simony– To buy or sell a Church office
• Nepotism– To give lucrative Church positions to family
• Pluralism– To hold more than one Church position at a time
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Indulgences
• A person, if properly confessed, absolved, and truly repentant, might, by obtaining an indulgence, certain of the temporary punishments of purgatory. One obtained an indulgence in exchange for a donation of money.
• I hear a donkey coming and the sound of nails being pounded into a door.
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Prelude to the Protestant reformation
Martin Luther 1483-1546
John Calvin 1509-1564
Henry VIII 1491-1547
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The New Monarchies
• It was the development of the modern State, more than any single factor that determined the course of the Protestant Reformation.
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Martin Luther 1483-1546
• Catholic monk until 40• Terrified by the
omnipotence of God• Man justified by Faith
Alone, not by works, Romans I:17
• Reacted to John Tetzel 1517
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Tetzel selling Indulgences
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Johann Tetzel• Sold indulgences for the Archbishop of Mainz and
Pope Leo X– Funds used to repay Fuggers loan and for the building of
St. Peters• “When a coin in the coffer rings a soul from
Purgatory springs”– Indulgences, commissioned by the Pope were said to be
able to spring soul from purgatory• Luther thought the people were being deluded
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Definition: Indulgence• Indulgence: – God is merciful, but is just– Christ and the church established a “treasury of merits”– That “treasury of merits could be drawn upon by the
Church”– Originally applied to temporal sin, but Tetzel claimed the
indulgence secured total remission of sins on earth and in Purgatory
– Men and women could buy indulgences for themselves as well as for others
– Enraged Luther who felt the people were being deluded.
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Definition:Purgatory
• Purgatory (Lat., "purgare", to make clean, to purify) in accordance with Catholic teaching is a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions.
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Luthers Response:95 theses• Luther posted the Theses on indulgences on the
Church Door at Wittenburg• Luther sought Theological discussion, got Protestant
reformation• Luther rejected the notion that salvation could be
achieved by good works, such as indulgences.• In the theses Luther reviewed the Catholic sacrament
of penance• Some Theses challenged the Popes power to grant
indulgences and others criticized Papal wealth.
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Where is the authority of the Church, according to Luther.
• Luther in effect questioned the authority of the Pope to issue Indulgences
• Luther also stated that Church council’s were not incapable of error: John Huss burned at the stake, Council of Constance 1415.
• According to Luther it is up to each individual Christian to interpret the Bible according to his own Conscience
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Pope Leo X
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Leo X’s response and Luthers• Leo X ordered Luther to recant (take back) his ideas• Luther publicly burned the Bull (letter) from the Pope• Luther was then excommunicated• Charles V was now to arrest and try the heretic Luther• Luther was summoned to appear at the Diet of Worms
1521• Luther was placed under the ban of the empire-the
elector of Saxony took Luther under his protection.
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Luthers Response, cont.
• In order to drive home these reforms, Luther called upon the Princes of the Holy roman Empire
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Peasant response
• Luther:”a Christian man is the most free Lord” On Christian Liberty 1520
• Luther: Lords “flay and rob their subjects…until they can bear it no longer.”
• 1525 the Peasants revolt, seeking political and economic justice shouting slogans from Luther
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Luther’s response to Peasants
• “against the Murderous, thieving hordes of the peasants”
• Luther referred to the peasants as filthy swine and urged the German Princes to suppress them by the sword
• Lutheranism took on a character of submissiveness to the state.
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Martin Luther vs. Charles V• Charles V was bound to uphold Catholicism because
only in a Catholic world did the HRE make sense. • The States of the Empire saw in Charles efforts to
repress Luther a threat to their own freedom.• States wanted “ius reformandi” the right to choose
their own religion for their region.• They became Lutheran locally, introducing Lutheran
doctrines.
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Secularization of Church property
• Where a state turned Lutheran it usually confiscated the Church properties within its borders.
• Enriched some of the Lutheran Princes and gave them a strong material interest in the success of the Lutheran movement.
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League of Schmalkald
• Group of Princes and free cities formed against the HRE
• French King Francis I allied with the Protestant Princes against the Catholic HRE– France’s main foreign policy was to keep the HRE
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No help for Charles
• Charles V begged the Pope to call a council together• King of France schemed so the Pope would not call
such a council• To the Papacy nothing was more upsetting than
calling a Europe wide council.• The Popes procrastinated in calling such a council
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WAR
• The Schmalkaldic league had actually gone to war with the HRE CV (1546)
• Germany fell into an anarchy of civil struggle between Catholic and Protestant states.
• It was a war that mixed religious fervor with political issues
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Peace of Augsburg 1555
• Ended the Schmalkaldic wars• Cuius regio eius religio (Whose the region, his
the religion)• Terms at Augsburg signified a complete victory
for the cause of Lutheranism and states rights• Great victory for Protestantism, began
dismantling of HRE
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Lutheran Doctrine• No Special office for the Priest• Denounced reliance upon fasts, pilgrimages, saints
and masses• Rejected the belief in Purgatory• Reduced the catholic 7 sacraments to 2• Rejected transubstantiation for consubstantiation• Clergy should marry• Monasticism should be eliminated
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John Calvin 1509-1564
• Had a humanists knowledge of Latin and Greek as well as Hebrew
• 1536 wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Where Luther had aimed his writing at the rulers of Germany-Calvin addressed the institutes to the world. He wrote it in Latin
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Luther and Calvin similarities
• Justification by faith not works• Both rejected transubstantiation
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Unique Calvin doctrine• Predestination-God being almighty, knew and willed
in advance the way in which each human life would be lived out.
• The elect or the Chosen• A person could feel that he was one of the elect if he
persisted in a saintly life• Protestant work ethic• Rejected the position of Bishop and the Church
hierarchical bureaucracy
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Geneva-Protestant Rome• Calvin’s model Christian community• A body of ministers ruled the Church; a consistory of
ministers and elders ruled the town• Law was strict- all loose living was suppressed.
Disaffected were driven into exile• Removed religious images from Churches • Candles and incense gone, no music, no chanting,
etc. • Michael Servetus-burned at stake
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Spread of Calvinism
• French Huguenots• Netherlands• John Knox brought Calvinism to Scotland
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Calvin and the State
• Calvinist refused to recognize the subordination of Church to state
• Insisted that true Christians should “Christianize” the State.
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Reformation of England
• England was peculiar because it broke with the Roman church before adopting any Protestant principles.
• Henry VIII had been a good Catholic
• Defense of the Seven Sacraments
• Defender of the Faith• But… Henry had no male heir
– Remember chaos of wars of the Roses
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Wife #1 Catherine of Aragon
• Catherine of Aragon• Daughter of Ferdinand and
Isabella• Aunt of HRE Charles V• Mother of Mary Tudor (bloody)• Could not produce male heir
for Henry VIII• Henry VIII Requested that Pope
annul his marriage to Catherine • Pope refused-the Pope was in
no position to offend Charles V
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Wife #2 Anne Boleyn
• When the Pope refused to grant the annulment Henry broke the Roman connection and married the youthful Anne Boleyn
• Anne was the mother of Elizabeth I
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Creation of the English church• Henry VIII worked with Parliament to break from the
Church• Act of Supremacy- declared English King to be head
of the Church of England• Oath of supremacy-Thomas More• Henry closed the monasteries in England and gave
the land to the nobility• The new landed gentry remained firm supporters of
the House of Tudor and the English National Church
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Church Structure
• Henry did not intend to change any church doctrines at all.
• He simply wished to be the supreme head of an English Catholic Church
• Six Articles of faith– Required belief in transubstantiation, celibacy of
the clergy, need for confession
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Henry died in 1547
• Succeeded by his son Edward VI– Son of Henry and Jane
Seymour (3rd wife)• 10 years old- reigned from
1547-1553• Greatly influenced by
Protestant doctrine
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Mary Tudor (r. 1553-1558)
• Daughter of Henry and Catherine of Aragon
• Tried to re-Catholicize England
• Burned 300 Protestants at the stake
• Bloody Mary
Phillip II and Mary I
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Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603)
• Daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn
• Successfully concealed personal religious views
• Under QEI England became Protestant gradually and in their own way
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Elizabeth I (cont.)
• Organizationally the English Church (Anglican) resembled the Lutheran Church
• It was a state Church, existence and doctrines determined by the gov’t
• In religious practice the church was definitely Protestant
• 39 articles of faith-broad, vague definition of the creed of the Anglican Church
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Catholic Reformation and Counter Crusade
• Amongst the Church it was concluded that the need of reform was so urgent that all dangers of a council must be risked.
• Council of Trent 1545-1563
• Counter Crusade• Ignatius Loyola• Jesuits• Pope Paul III
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Council of Trent
• Preserved the Papacy as the center of unity of the Catholic Church
• Helped prevent the dissolution into State Churches
• The Council made NO concessions to Protestant doctrine
• Clarified correct Catholic Doctrine
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Doctrine from Trent:• Justification by works and faith combined• Reaffirmed 7 sacraments• Priesthood is special order separate from laity• Transubstantiation was reaffirmed• Scripture and tradition were put on equal footing• Latin was the official language of services• The Vulgate was declared the official Bible• Celibacy for the Clergy was maintained• The theory and practice of indulgences were restated
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The Counter Crusade
• Goal was to stop the spread of Protestantism and win back Protestants to Roman Catholicism
• Pope Paul III 1534-1549 the first of the reforming Popes to replace the Renaissance Popes
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Ignatius Loyola
• The Society of Jesus-Jesuits
• Authorized by Pope Paul III in 1540
• Soldiers of Christ• Loyal to the Pope• Spiritual Exercises• Papal index of forbidden
books