Henry VIII: Overview of the Church Flashcards
Where did the Church receive its wealth
- Donations
- Money left in Wills
- Indulgences
- Pay for masses for the dead to be said in your name
What does Catholic belief state you are born with
Original sin
What does Catholic belief state occurs as people live
More sins are accumulated as a result of wrongdoing
What did sin mean
That you spent time in Purgatory
How did people shorten their time spent in Purgatory
- Doing good work for the church
- Paying indulgences
- Donating money to the church
What role did religion play in peoples lives
Religion was a fundamental part of everyones lives
The religious calendar dictated everyones lives
What are the 7 sacrments
- Baptism - Children cleansed of original sin
- Confirmation - Young people became members of the Church
- Marriage
- Ordination - Man becomes a priest
- Last Rites - Dying people anointed with Holy Oil
- Penance - Confession of sins to a priest to minimise purgatory time
- Mass and Euhcharist - Re-enactment of the last summer, Mass to be said in Latin, Bread and wine eaten
What is anticlericalism
Judgements of the Church
What was the problem with anticlericalism
Anyone speaking out about the church would be deemed a heretic
Reasons for anticlericalism
- Benefit of the Clergy - allowed the Clergy to escape trial
- Unholy behaviour - Many monks were guilty of getting drunk and visiting brothels
- Clerical abuses.
- Simony
- Pluralism
- Sexual misconduct
- Uneducated Clergy
What did Humanists want
An improvement in the intellectual and moral standards of the clergy
Who was the most prominent humanist scholar
Erasmus
Why was the impact of Humanism small
Because the majority of the population were illiterate
Who were the Lollards
A small minority of radicals in England
Whose ideas did Lollards follow
The ideas of the 14th century John Wycliffe
What did the Lollards want
For the bible to be english
Papacy to lose support - they believed all men were created equal
What was lollardy regarding as
heresy
What was the impact of lollardy
Little, there was hardly any developments during the henrician revolution
What was Lutherism
The following of Martin Luther
Who was Martin Luther
A german reformer who broke from the Roman Catholic Church
What did Lutherism highlight
- Justification by faith alone
- Denial of papal authority
- Clerical hierachy was unnecessary
- Bible translated into English, many couldnt read latin
- Indulgences were wrong
What did Henry write regarding Lutherism
The ‘Assertio Setpum’ in 1521 - this confirmed the status of the church
What was Henry awarded following the Assertio Septum
The title ‘Protector of the Faith’
What was the impact of Lutherism
Henry was anti-lutheran and lutheran supporters could be burnt as heretics
