Great Schism and Reformation Flashcards
What was the great schism
When the church decided to split
What year did the split happen
440CE
What caused the great schism
The Bishop of Rome, Leo did not want to lose his power, so he said before Jesus ascended to heaven. He put his disciple peter in charged.leo claimed that Peter was the first bishop and the authority was passed from one bishop to the next
What is the succession of popes from Peter onwards called
Apostolic succession
What changed in 1052
People stopped accepting what Leo said and the east no longer wanted to be under the popes power
What did all these thing lead to to
The split.The east became known as the Eastern Orthodox church and the west became known as the Catholic church
Who was one of leaders of the reformation
Martin Luther a German monk.
What did Martin Luther believe and what year
He believed that the Catholic Church has strayed from teachings of the bible.Zto draw attention to this he nailed a list of 95 theses/complaints to the door of his church in wittenberg 1517
What were key things Luther wanted to change
• A common practise at the time was the selling of indulgences (people giving He church money in exchange dor less time in purgatory) but Luther thought
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this was wrong and believed that people could pray to god directly for forgiveness
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• Luther also said the bible should be the greatest source of guidance for
christians rather than the Pope. He believed ary rule not in the bible shouldn’t afrai have to be followed even if the pope said it.
• services also tended to be in Latin rather than in the home Language and so was the bible. Luther and other reforms, translated it into their own lunghage.
What did the pope do in response
The pope saw Luther as a threat as people no longer had to rely on him for the bible but could read it themselves in response he issued a document accusing him of Hersey but Luther burned it.in the end the pope excommunicated hi,.new churches will built based of Luther’s teachings and were known as Protestant churches because it protested against the Catholic Church
How many detonations of Christianity are there and examples
40,000
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Methodist
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Who was on the throne around Luther’s time and what did he want to do
King Henry and he wanted to divorce his wife Catherine of Arogon
Who was the only person who could give a divorce to Henry
The pope and he refused
What did Henry do in response
Henry broke with the Catholic Church and made himself head of the Church of England in 1534,Later the Church of England became known as the Anglican Church and became and is now the country’s official religion
Why could only the pope divorce marraige
People didn’t divorce over trival things
- Vow = Til death do us part is Strictly folloed
- Catholics can divorce now but can’t remarry (Still maried in god eyes.
- Majour reasons (abuse/ adult ry) caltolics can divorce tremarry
- If divorced as a catholic you can’t take holy communion
- annulment means alloking a divorce tremarry .
