Church History Flashcards
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Medival Church Wealth
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- France Germany England Spain Churches owned over half the Land
- Tithes were paid by every person - Indulgences
- Pope personally owned the Papal territories and received contributions from the faithful eveywere
- Pope, Bishops, Priests had most power and control
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Reasons for Deline in Medieval Church
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- Rise of Nationalism
- Backlash against the Inquisition
- Reactions against some money raising efforts
- Moral laxity within the church
- Secularization of Church during the renaissance
- The Crusades
- Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy
- Paple Schism- 3 way split
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Define Canon of Scripture
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“Canon” = Rule or standard- a standard to measure whether a book belonged in scripture.
- the 39th festal epistle in 367 AD Athanasius spoke scripture as “canonized” in contrast to Apocryphal books
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Establish of Canon
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- Need for authoritative writing record Apostles’ teaching
- Need to decide on what should be read in churches
- defuse heresy
- establish the truth to answer error
- Need to decide which book claiming canonicity was false
- need to decide which blood to die for- martyrdom
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Criteria for Canon
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- Apostolicity
- Recognition and preservation
- self- attestation
- Consistent
- Persecution test
- Sufficiently ancient
6
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Early Witnesses
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Muratorian - 170 ad
Irenaeus - 175 ad
Codex Barococcio 206 ad
Clement of Alexandria 200
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1st early witness
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Muratorian 170
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2nd early witness
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Irenaeus 175
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3rd Early Witness
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Codex Barococcio 206
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4th Early Witness
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Clement of Alexandria 200
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4th Century individuals shows canon settled
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Eusebius 260-340 ad
Athanasus 367 as
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Athanasus
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367 4th Century Individual
13
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Eusebius
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260-340 4th Century Indicidual
14
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4 Ecumenical Councils
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- Nicaea 325
- Constantinople 381
- Ephesus 431
- Chalcedon 451
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Nicaea
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Council 325
