Church History Flashcards
First confession during the Reformation
67 Articles (1523) - Zwingli
Zwingli’s Theology
- Emphasized Creator rather than creatures (Creator/creature distinction from the fathers)
- Providence rather than chance (providence disallows any works-based faith; Zwingli holds to double predestination but is not a hyper-calvinist)
- Holy Scripture rather than human tradition
- True religion rather than ceremonial piety
- External kingdom rather than privatized morality
Semper Reformanda
- Sola scriptura
- sola fide
- sola gratia
- solus christus
- soli de gloria
Act of Supremacy
(1534) delcared the kind the supreme head of the Church of England (Henry VIII)
KVJ published in
1611
Six Article Act
Protestants called it the bloody whip with 6 strings
- transubstantiation
- clerical celibacy
- communion of one kind (bread only)
- sanctity of priestly vows
- private masses
- auricular confession
Roger Williams
(on Puritan Pilgrims)
you can’t force people to believe, people need the liberty of their own soul to believe; commented on the irony that the people picked up the sword they had just escaped from
Kenneth Collins
other historians are too focused on the theme of grace in Wesley’s theology, but he thinks it’s more holiness and grace
Charles Finney
father of second great awakening
-HS is needed for salvation but not for revival
Bebbington
parameters on what evangelicalism is: Biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism, activisism
Vatican I
(1870) called by Pius IX to deal with issues of modernity
(1) papal infallibility: only when speaking ex cathedra about matters of faith and practice
(2) Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church
Vatican II
(1962-1965) John XXIII
- Mass conducted in vernacular
- Lay people given more influence into the day to day operations of the church (classic divide between clergy and laity was not as pronounced)
- List of banned books was abolished; theologians were free to explore
- Affirmed the superiority of Scripture over Tradition
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Christ and culture
against, of, above, and culture in paradox, Christ the transformer of culture
Curialism
theory of church government that invested supreme authority, both temporal and spiritual, in the hand of the papacy
Conciliarism
affirmed the superiority of ecumenical councils over the pope in the governance and reform of the church.
Diet of Augsburg (1518)
- appeared before Cardinal Cajetan
- staunch in his view of the supreme authority of Scripture
- Cajetan says the pope is above Scripture
Leizpig Disputation (1519)
- debated Johan Eck
- Luther was accused of being a Hussite
Exsurge Domini
(1520) gave Luther 60 days to recant or be excommunicated
Docet Romanum Pontificem
(1521) officially excommunicated
Diet of Worms
(1521) Are these your books? Do you recant?
Three political providences that helped the Reformation
- Proud German Princes
- Backdoor politicking and shifting political allegiances
- Turks in the East