Exam 1 Flashcards
What is Nationalism?
A group of people, who speak the same language, and live in a similar geographic context, and cultural context begin to think of themselves collectively.
Name two wars connected to nationalism and the pursuit of religious power
100 Years War
30 Years War
What happened during the Avignon Papacy?
Church headquarters moved from Rome to Avignon
Explain the Great Papal Schism
Gregory VII dies in 1378. An Italian Pope is elected and moves the papacy back to Rome. He is incompetent. The cardinals go to the French and ask for help. A second pope is installed, but Urban VI will not step down. A third pope is then created in 1409.
How was the church paying for the painting of St. Pete’s Basillica?
The selling of indulgences
What is an indulgence?
A financial transaction that allows you to shorten your time in purgatory
What did Luther think about indulgences?
They were a violation of church doctrine and crass
What does Luther do in response?
Posts the 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church
When does Luther post the 95 Theses?
10/31/1517
Why did Lutheranism take hold?
Luther had a powerful backer Frederick of Saxony who supports Luther out of sense of nationalism
Who raised concerns about the catholic church prior to Luther? Why were they not successful?
John Huss. He did not have a powerful protector.
When does John Calvin go to Geneva?
1536
What does Calvin do?
Restructures Geneva as a protestant city
What is Calvin’s reform tradition?
Puritan
What is TULIP Theology?
T- otal depravity: Individual was completely sinful. Whole constitution was shattered by sin
U- ncondition election: God decides if you are among God’s chosen people
L-imited Atonement: Jesus’ death was only effective for those who are being saved ( Whom God has chosen and no one else)
I-rreistable Grace: When God decides to save you he will send grace into your life and it will be irresistible. It is all God’s work. Predestination. No free choice
P-erservance of the saints: If God makes the decision to save someone then those people will be faithful until the end because God has decided it. “ Once saved, always saved”
Who are the followers of John Huss?
Moravians
What is the main concept of Calvinist reform and TULIP theology?
God has predetermined those who will be saved and those who will go to hell. It cannot be altered.
Name the traditions off of Calvinism
Puritans, Presbyterians, Congregationists, Baptists
What is the Supremacy Act?
1534- Henry VIII makes himself the head of the church
What is created during Edward VI’s reign?
The Book of Common Prayer
What happens as a byproduct of Mary’s reign?
The country becomes more Protestant after she executes the Archbishop of Canterbury
How did Elizabeth I shape the Anglican Church?
1) Added to the Book of Common Prayer
2) She made the service look and feel Catholic, but the words were Protestant
Who are the Puritans?
Separatists who do not think the reformation has gone far enough
What happens in Europe as a result of Enlightenment Philosophy?
1) Christianity is weakened by the split
2) Center of authority is Europe is fractured
When was the Edict of Nantes?
April 13, 1598
What is the Edict of Nantes?
Hugenots obtain freedom to worship except in Paris
What is the Massacre of Vassy?
Massacre of 100 Hugenots worshiping in a barn. They were killed by Catholic soliders
When was the Massacre of Vassy?
March 1562
What is the result of the Peace of Westphalia?
The Netherlands gained independence from Spain, Sweden gained control of the Baltic and France was acknowledged as the preeminent Western power. The power of the Holy Roman Emperor was broken and the German states were again able to determine the religion of their lands.
When is the Peace of Westphalia?
1648
What is the Treaty of Tordesilles?
Pope Alexander VI gave Spain all the new islands discovered
Gave Portugal the coast of Africa
When was the Treaty of Tordesilles?
1494
Who was Bartholomew de las Casas?
He was a Dominican monk, who became the first ordained priest in the new world. He worked for 40 years trying to get the Spanish to understand that native peoples were human beings. He eventually convinced Charles V to side with him in 1542, who made the “ New Laws of 1542”
What are the “New Laws of 1542”?
Established native peoples of the new world as equal to Spaniards under the law. Came about as a result of the work of Bartholomew de la Casas.
What is the Papal Bull of 1537?
Native peoples are capable of receiving baptism
Who are the Jesuits?
They are the monastic followers of Ignatius of Loyola. They were educators. Their order is in part a reaction to the Reformation. It was an effort to “dig in” to Catholicism.
What do the Jesuits do?
They become missionaries and go to India, China, the Americas, and Japan. They make accommodations to local peoples practice and will try to interpret it into the Catholic faith=> local practices become adopted into Catholicism
Who are the Francisicans?
Monastaic order that follow Saint Francis of Assisi
What are the results of the Franciscans in the Americas?
Their missions were connected to economic opportunism.
Who was Don Juan de Onate?
Spanish Conquestidor and governor of Neuvo Mexico. He separated children from their families.
Who was Father Serra?
Franciscan priest who established Franciscan missions in California. He was well known for public flagellation.
Describe the conditions of the Carribean and New Orleans under French control?
1) French killed the indigenous people and replaced them with slaves from Africa.
2) Conditions are brutal. Many were worked to death
What happens in New Orleans?
Slave trade grows out of a response to the sugar industry
Who was Richard Hakluyt?
1) Half brother to Sir Walter Raleigh
2) Urged England to ignore the Pope’s lines of demarcation
3) Led an expedition to the New World, in 1585, and settled the Roanoke Colony
Who was the first European child born in the colonies?
Virginia Dare, 1587
When was Jamestown settled?
1607, by the London Company
When does VA legislature makes Church of England the official church of the colony?
1619
When do the first slaves arrive at Jamestown?
1619
When does “ Religious Toleration” within the VA colony begin?
1689
By the 1700s, who arrives in the VA colony?
Presbyterians, Baptists, and Medothists
Who are John and Charles Wesley?
The founders of Methodism
Explain how Methodism was created
The Wesleys founded a piety club at Oxford, The Holy Club. John was already an ordained minister when he had an experience at Alders Gate, London May 21, 1738 where he felt is “ Heart strangely warmed”. There was a quest for further spiritualism and a personal connection with Christ. This becomes the hallmark of Wesleyan piety.
Tenants of Methodism
1) Personal connection with Christ
2) Second act of grace. You are saved and then sanctified
3) Remiments of the CoE
Songs written by Charles Wesley
1) Hard the Herald Angels Sing
2) Love devine; all love excelling
3) O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
When does the Methodist split occur?
1795, after John Wesley’s death
Where are the Puritans from?
Scotland and England
What did the Puritans hate?
1) Any trace of “ Romanism”
2) Book of Common Prayer
3) Any form of written prayer (e.g. Lord’s Prayer). All prayer should be heartfelt in the moment
4) Theatre
5) Office of the Bishop- Church should be governed by “Presbyters” or elders
What is the hierarchy of an Episcopal system?
It is a bishop system
What is the hierarchy of the Puritan church?
The church is governed by “ presbyters” or elders instead of a bishop. The governmental structure is local and congregational.
Who were the Pilgrims?
A separatist Puritan group. They first immigrated to Holland and settled. However, their children started learning Dutch. They then returned to England, before immigrating to the New World where they founded Plymouth Colony.
When was the Plymouth Colony founded?
1620
When was the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled?
1630