church history 2 Flashcards
3 methodological assumptions that affect how we view history
- History is a story of sinners2. Church History is theological - history is always driving to a theol point3. Smallest events have big outcomes
overarching question for this course?
what happened in 1517
in the context of medieval church what are the 2 areas of study?
- the view from the laity2. the view from top - officials in the church
What are the 6 influences effecting lay life?
- Personal Piety2. Rural / Agrarian context3. Mortality rates4. Volatile economy5. Social hierarchy6. the Mass
Personal Piety
people took their spirituality seriously b/c it was a world w/o many answers
Rural and agrarian
- 80% didn’t live in cities- by this time most were out on farms- very small life in the village
Mortality rates
- 55-60% didn’t live to see teen yrs- bad views of medicine - “good humor”- men married 4x’s or so - 50/50 die in birth
Volatile economy
- church declared can’t lend $ w/ interest- most bartered and traded- inflation up and down- debasing the coin - mixing metal - worth less and buy less- famine, plagues, why didn’t move into cities- no plumbing - pigs were trash collectors
Social Hierarchy
NAME?
overall life then
- avg age - 40’s-50’s- mortality, disease, death part of life- middle class beginning to form
what role does religion play in your life in this context?
NAME?
As a result the center of life was…
THE MASS
MASS was the center of …
LIFE
in Catholic theology it is the ….
CORE of life
If you live in the context of death and struggle mass…
becomes a magical moment
if you don’t go to confession..
Christ doesn’t die for your sins to forgive them
confession makes you eligible for…
going to mass
when you see Christ ….
re-sacrificed for you
What is the view of mass?
NAME?
When the wafer and chalice held up - they saw…
Christ right there…
the sacrifice is for your….
immediate sins
They began to see eucharist as ….
magical
hoc est corpus meum - this is my body…
hocus pocus
people began to worship…
the sacrament
they felt…
unworthy to take it
they had to come once a year and they began to notice the people were..
staying away
this is why protestants never…
hold up the sacraments but point down at them on the table
what is the major problem at this point?…
NAME?
Luther literally took them at thier …
word and tried to confess EVERYTHING
this created in him a …
neurosis - Christmas tree problem
people were filled with anxiety because they didn’t know when they died if they were…
truly forgiven
Catholic historians admit to..
doing a bad job of educating lay people
people felt so unworthy they even…
flogged themselves b/c they felt so sinful - trying to deal with guilty conscience
Now view from the top ….
official doctrine and practice
What were the weaknesses of the Cath ch?
structural weaknesses
what was the thrust of those weaknesses?
corruption at the top that runs through the organization
When was the Babylonian Captivity?
1309-1377
What happened in the Bab Captivity?
Pope got in a fight w/ French king who then had him killed 1308 - that execution began the Bap Cap of the church
Why was it called that?
metaphor - play on Isr’s captivity by Bab- French King now has a French Pope and he wants to move the papacy to southern France - Avignon, FR- Fr king has Fr pope in Fr and controls it there for 70 yrs - not IN ROME- MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT - the pyramid was a puppet
1377 the Fr King let them go from…
pressure from other countries to move back to Rome
When that pope died what was the fear?
that Fr would put a new Fr pope on throne
How did they elect a pope?
lock Cardinals in a room and don’t let em out til they’ve decided - white smoke or black out the chimney if they’ve decided or not- jamming spears under the floor to elect an Italian pope - threat of death
what was the result?
Fr got mad and went back to Fr and elected ANOTHER POPE to rule from Avignon- NOW - have 2 popes both saying they’re in succession of Peter and claiming the throne- then they tried to get rid of those 2 and actually got a 3rd!! - 3 POPES!!! - just 100 yrs before Luther
So for 100 yrs (1309 to 1417) have a ….
world that needs hierarchy and can’t decide who’s in charge
1378 to 1417 then was called
the Great Schism
Another Major Issue at the Top….
Moral Corruption
Name the categories of MORAL corruptions
NAME?
what was Simony?
- from Simon the magician - how much can I pay you to do miracles- buying the office- if you’re rich and want to be richer & more powerful - you could borrow money and take over regions - office is bought - more than one even…
what was Pluralism?
holding more than one office at the same time - be a bishop of like 5 diocese at once
what was the concept of VICAR?
NAME?
what was Absenteeism?
you were supposed to stay in your post
what was Breakdown of Celibacy?
- all priests and clergy were supposed to be celibate unless the price is right!- Germ and Netherlands - had concubines 1 out of 3 clergy - a common law spouse- married but no ceremony - priests fall in love - pay tax to break the rule
why was this shocking?
b/c the Priest was supposed to be an extension of the mass- they were supposed to be celibate and poor and they were neither!
what was Greed?
NAME?
they were never…
taxed while others were overtaxed - they lived ABOVE the law and not the morally pure people they were supposed to be
So Summary of weakness…
NAME?
What was the Doctrinal Corruption?
NAME?
who held the minority view on justification?
Augustinians Majority view was - Medieval Catholic view
What was the minority view?
Schola Augustinia moderna- Gregory of Rimini - 1300-1358- Luther came from this
What was the majority view?
- combined Augustine’s emphasis on the priority of grace with a Semi-Pelagian view that sinners must cooperate with grace to receive salvation
what was the “loop de loop”?
Birth- baptismal regeneration - entry into church - state of grace - (circle back) sin - confession - absolution - penance - state of grace - (back to sin cycle) or - death - purgatory removes remaining sins - heaven
baptism belief
- at baptism - orig sin is wiped away and HS comes into your life (infused)- force baptism b/c blv HS comes in and now you working for it- no Cath blvs saved at baptism
what was State of Grace belief?
- shiny then dirty - sin takes you out of it - you’ve tarnished a purified soul- go to priest to have it absolved - the way to “polish” is for you to work for it- do good stuff to back to state of grace- PENANCE
concept of PENANCE
- paying Christ back to make up for the sin in your life - our Father’s, hail mary’s, alms, pilgrimage to a holy sight
key for the cycle..
NAME?
the church believed it was being….
grace centered
the confession and absolution cycle was considered to be…
grace through works- some waited to get baptized til right before death to beat the system - all sin absolved before die - circumvent the cycle
how many sacraments in the Cath church?
7 - down from 12
Vatican 1 decided
the Pope was infallible
Vatican 2 decided
Mary was assumed into heaven 1960’s
even purgatory is seen as …
grace - b/c God lets you work off your sin
how does prayer fit in?
NAME?
they would hock grace…
for you to get your grandmother out of purgatory
this was called…
selling indulgences
what was a plenary indulgence?
- every 50yrs - yr of jubilee - if you travel to rome you get a plenary indulgence - don’t have to do the Loop de Loop - all is forgiven
why was this used?
to get guys to fight in the Crusades
this guilt system + Luther =
oppressive neurotic!
what does this say about the human heart?
what do I have to do to get God to like me?
what kind of view of the Father does this generate?
- abusive - he’s mad - jesus stepped into his punch - I just wanted to hit someone - serious gap of trust in your life
LOVE was God’s motive NOT…
anger
the medieval view of grace BEGAN with the Augustinian priority of grace…however
NAME?
why is humanism important?
the role it played in the life of Luther
what is the medieval definition of humanism?
it’s an educational philosophy and method
what is it’s goal?
NAME?
it’s not secular humanism
- there wasn’t a doctrine associated with it - it was simply a learning method
why did it arise?
the old educational perspective was wrong
who was a leading humanist?
Thomas Moore
what was it antagonistic towards?
scholasticism
what led Zwingli, Luther, Calvin away from Cath church?
education
what is scholasticism?
NAME?
scholasticism ignores…
context
what happened with Scholasticism in the Middle Ages?
- notes that were taken of texts over time became a part of the original text itself and so meaning was asserted and changed the original text - morphing into something else as it was studied- it became difficult to distinguish between text and notes- texts were limited - shorthand used - 12 people in the world read T Aquinas writing
as paper and ink were expensive they would share ideas through…
decoding each others thoughts in the margins
humanism mocks scholasticism because…
this turns into ELITISM
who was a great scholastic of the day?
Lombard
how is Luther confused?
people think he’s a humanist b/c he’s fighting for people to be taught
scholastics were trying to protect…
the preservation of knowledge
it was a culture of the have’s and the…
have not’s - it was a way to exclude and divide people - the ability to read and discover for yourself - giving away power and control
scholasticism was characterized by..
minutia questions of meaning - doctors, monks, professors
what was NORTHERN humanism?
NAME?
Hebrew scholars were limited so it took them several generations to …
learn Hebrew to read the Bible in its original language - they couldn’t tell the difference btwn Aramaic and Heb
trust began to shift from the authorities of…
the scholars to the authority of the Word - the Apostles!
to no longer have to take the prof’s word for it but to study it for yourself in Heb/Grk…
was a humanistic belief
the slogan for humanism (Northern)
Ad Fontes - “to the fount” - to the original sources - GO BACK TO PAUL not Aquinas
wherever protestantism goes ….
education skyrockets b/c it seeks to teach languages etc. to teach the Bible - empowers the people
who was the “Prince of the Humanists”?
Erasmus (1466-1536)
he was born…
in the Netherlands
the illegitimate son of…
a priest and concubine
he gave us the …
CRITICAL EDITION of the NEW TESTAMENT in 1516
what did that do?
took all the known manuscripts of Greek and created a critical apparatus for meaning
what is textual criticism? - Critical edition?
NAME?
What is modern scholars view of txtual criticism?
the more the better for triangulating accuracy
how does the KJV view it?
textus receptus - the texts used for the KJV were the oldest and not corrupted as archeology found more texts/manuscripts
what’s an example?
- 3-4 areas in the gospels - say - we may not know if this is in the original manuscripts
another key event in the txtual critical ethos was …
doing an analysis of the early church fathers writings - writing from year 1 to 500 - keeping people from adding to Augustine saying he liked penance etc.- Erasmus throws out texts that people were basing things on
this was seriously threatening to …
the Catholic system
who was Lorenzo Valla?
Northern humanist- contemporary to Erasmus- studied the Donation of Constantine document - which stated it was his will to leave the authority to the Pope and papacy was king of the world
what happened in his study of the document of Constantine?
- he discovered that there were words added in the 8th century! SCANDALOUS- b/c this doc was used to support papal authority!
Northern Humanists made fun of…
Papacy - Christmas tree model- created the term “Middle Ages” b/c they looked down on that era as dysfunctional
what did Erasmus teach?
PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI - philosophy of Christ - optimistic view of life - if we just give everyone the Bible we’ll all agree (nieve)
goal of this philosophy…
get us out of the Dark Ages and improve the quality of life of the lay people - world view - we can’t keep education to ourselves
what book did Erasmus write promoting this theory of education?
Enchridion - writing to a secular prince - his vision of where education can take us - plowman works all day long and then goes inside and studies his Bible - he wanted all to have a Bible and be able to read it
Erasmus’ theology …
still a medieval Catholic - earn salvation - Luther and he had a famous debate about the bondage of the will - Erasmus writes - Freedom of the Will - we’re free to co-penance 1525 - point - both Ad Fontes had different views of salvation- we educate so people can DO the Xn life better - Luther - we educate so they know it’s free grace!
What was the link between Humanism and the Reformation?
theological? NOEducational - YES!
Erasmus was tried for …
causing the reformation! but he didn’t cause the theological dimension
the tools of humanism did…
link to the Ref b/c it made people want to learn and therein question the church
humanism provided the …
low humidity front for the Reformation rain to fall
Luther ends…
the Middle Ages and begins the modern world
he in his being really symbolized…
the transition in the church
Luther didn’t intend…
the Reformation
95 thesis was intended to be…
an inner office memo
he was stumbling in the dark reaching out to steady himself when he grabbed …
the rope and it happened to be the rope that rang the church bell
born Nov 10
1483
Father..
successful miner - upward mobile family - upper middle class
education…
Father wanted more for him than he had - sent to Mansfield then to Eisenach - speak and write Latin
1501 University of Erfurt
expensive and dad pushed him through the ranks - graduated with BA in one year and MA in 1505 second in class - smart guy!
His testimony to the monastery began in…
1505 - Law school - driven by his dad’s desire
on the road to law school….
July 1505 Thunderstorm - scared and prays to Saint Anne - patron saint of a copper miner- he has a theological problem with going the secular route - blvs God called him to monastery
what type of monastery does Luther join?
Observant Augustinian - 1507- hard core of the hard core- did Luther come up with justif by faith or learn it from Augustine?
he fasted all the time and begged for food…
seems like God put him in a context where he works and works …journey to real grace
spends a decade…
as a monk
spends hours …
confessing every thought
Prince Frederick was putting a lot of money towards this univ and recruits Luther…
University of Wittenberg - 1511
Luther receives a doctorate in…
1512
in 1515 he becomes…
2nd ranking Augustinian - 10 monasteries and 2 universities*not obscure but a smart man - zealous to challenge the church
4 dimensions to knowing Luther the sinner…
- Extremely zealous monk2. Anfechtungen - anxiety/depression - no assurance3. Turmerlebnis - Tower experience - gospel conversion - 1515-1521 (somewhere) - breakthrough - grasping grace4. Johann Von Staupitz - guided him to focus on God’s mercy and grace - stop thinking so much about your works…
what was the Medieval view of the will?
- At baptismal regeneration God infuses grace - adding inherent worth to the soul - gold coin - protect and preserve it2. Facere quod in se est - do that which is in you - work for maintaining state of grace3. in the end - Participate in their own salvation
whats the problem with “do that which is in you?”
you never have assurance
you’re not saved if you…
don’t work
Christ becomes merely an…
example
Luther’s response was this was…
LEGALISM - he gives us this term
Legalism is the…
bent of the human heart to self justify to God and the world - we work to justify b/c we don’t believe we’re loved already- he expands Paul’s concept of legalistic Judaism
Self justification Luther would call
that LAW
he was fine with the tension of…
doing vs. grace
He becomes the king of…
paradox- die to live- lose to win
how does he see Rom 12?
be being - transformed - passive - paradoxical
When he talks about obedience - he switches to…
family mode - Sonship
his view of Sonship was about…
family resemblance
he saw himself as the guy who walked around popping…
the balloon of self effort
the Cross was a paradox for him…
- right when Christ could’ve been strong - he let himself be weakened - which unleashed the power of salvation
who was Erik Erikson?
NAME?
what was his theory on Luther?
- that he had an abusive father and was brutalized causing him to want to go to the monastery to rebel against his dad’s wishes- and that Luther fights the Pope b/c he can’t submit to authority
what is aug der cloaca?
luther was constipated physical so his afechtungion was a potty breakthrough
it meant…
we’re down in the dumps - not taking one!- he thought the Tower Experience was outhouse
this was Erikson’s _____ theory of child development
identity crisis
What happens in the Indulgences controversy? 3
- Pope Leo X - wants to rebuild St Peter’s - money’s in Germany2. Archbishop Albert of Mainz - bought the office -so he’s in debt and needs $ too - gets with the Pope and agrees to indulgence sale (buy your fam members out of purgatory - emotional leverage3. Johan Tetzel - slogan guy - as soon as a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs - emotional abuse
this is what sparks…
the Reformation - not theology
it was commonplace to ask for…
debates
he had recently posted 96 thesis against..
scholasticism - Sep 1517 - Disputation Against Scholastic Theology
Zwingli was also upset with …
Tetzel
when were the 95 theses posted?
Oct 31 1517 - on all Hallow’s Eve - before all Saints Day - mandatory for all to go to church
This was the spark that…
ignites the powder keg - over dramatized in the movie
what’s he wanting?
a meeting with the faculty to discuss indulgence sales
what he wasn’t trying to do…
start a split from the church
what was the thrust of thesis 1?
“do repentance” (the loop d loop) vs sorrow, guilt, asking, freedom - shot at scholasticism
what do thesis 42 and 44 reveal..
he’s still thinking in the loop d loop
Luther was in the dark about…
the Pope being in on the sale of indulgences
what was the Papal response to him?
shut up Luther!
he couldn’t figure out why they …
blew it out of proportion til he realized the Pope was in on it which made him call him the Antichrist later
why wasn’t he executed?
process was to “give them over to the State” for execution not the church
What was the Heidelberg Disputation?
April 1518- he was invited to debate indulgences- thesis - the law stands in the way of righteousness- thesis - free will after the fall is but a word- thesis - “doing what is in him” only adds to guilt (confrontation of free will and sanctif)
Who is Sylvester Prierias and Thomas Caietan
they tell Luther to submit or else
what happens at the Leipzig Disputation?
June 1519- Luther vs. Eck (brilliant debater)
What does Eck go after?
NAME?
can the Pope err?
Luther says he CAN err and be wrong- Scripture alone is infallible!!- the Pope isn’t the only one who can interpret scripture
what else does Luther call himself the Leipzig Disputation?
a Hussite- Jan Huss - challenged the Pope’s authority 200yrs earlier - given safe passage but killed- Luther: I’m putting the Word OVER the Pope
in the end Luther rejects..
papal or church council decisions that stand opposed to the Word
this is the Theological dynamite and grounds for..
excommunicating him
June 24 1520 Exurge Domine
Papal Bulls - like an exec order - the Pope is giving the “official” interpretation of what’s going on with Luther - Exurge Domine - Rise Up Lord - there’s a wild boar invading the church - he’s out now
how does Luther respond?
burns the Bull in a bonfire - along with students throwing the church’s theological works into the fire
Luther writes a Trilogy after that
- Address to the Christian Nobility2. Babylonian Captivity of the Church3. **The Freedom of a Christian
what was 1. The address to the Christian nobility about?
the politicians of Germany need to reform the church even though the Pope won’t- he’s combining church and state
what was 2. Babylonian Captivity of the Church about?
playing on the medieval Babylonian captivity concept - he’s arguing the Pope has led the church into captivity - calls him the Antichrist - he believes it too- lays out the vision of the Church - 2 sacraments and role of pastor - fellowship/preaching
what was 3. The Freedom of a Christian about?
Christian is bound to no one, subject to no one - yet a servant to all - freedom makes you a servant- doctrine of Christian life
what year were they written?
1520
why was Luther allowed to live so long?
Charles V who ruled Germany in the Holy Roman Empire - was busy fighting a 2 front war with France in the South West and the Turks in the South East
how long does Charles V family rule Holy Roman Empire?
stops 1918!
where was Luther tried?
Diet of Worms 1521
Luther was low on the …
docket
Charles V was a conservative…
Catholic