Exam 2 Flashcards
Salvation in the Early Days
You had to go to church
You had to observe all the sacraments
You have to do something for your salvation - penance
If you go on a crusade…
you will be saved, if you die you will go directly to heaven.
Fighting Monks
Hospitalers - first hospital
Templars - (1st multinational corporation) - designed checking account
Benefits to the crusades
Medicine & Nursing (Hospitalers)
Trade & Nobility (Templars)
Missionary Activity Increased
Negatives to crusades
Religious tension
Church growing through force (except Islam)
Income Tax
Responses to Religious War**
Passivisim
Holy War
Just War
Passivism**
Anabaptist - Quaker modern day
Holy War**
Seige of man’s soul - God fight!
Just War***
Lutheran - WWII - freeing people, they started it
Scholasticism
an attempt to rationalize theology in order to buttress faith by reason.
“because I said so”
Scholasticism and Religion
it would be defined by academics and philosophy rather than from a biblical point of view.
Mysticism
a response to the scholasticism with urged direct contact with God in act of worship instead of passively participating in the coldly formal acts of worship performed by clergymen and scholars
Reasons for Reformation
Political Factors Economic Factors Intellectual Factors Moral Factors Social Factors Theological Factors
Political Factors
establishment of centralized nation -
states who opposed a universal church
Economic Factors
Nation states did not want their tax dollars going to Rome
Intellectual factors
as people studied the Greek and Hebrew they discovered that the interpretations provided by the church were not always accurate.
Moral Factors
corruption was rampant in the church
Social Factors
middle class was developing
Theological factors
Scripture plus some other form of authority
Tradition took over scripture
Inaccessibility of scripture
Works over faith