Luther, Reformation Flashcards
Christian / Northern Renaissance humanism
- Italian Renaissance humansim that spread to the north 2. major goal: reform of Christanity (the ability of humans, through education (classic and Christian) creat inner reverence for God and inward religious feelings that will bring a reform) 3. cultive acknolwedge of classics (focus on early Christian sources, found simple religion that was different from compliated theological arguments of Middle Ages) 4. in order to change society, need to change human beings (were optimsitic) 5. Gramus and More
Erasmus
- formulate and popularize reform program of Christian Humanism 2. emphasized inner piety and did not support external forms of religion (understand original meaning of scripture) 3. made connections 4. reform of Church 5. his program (did not achieve reform that he desired) 6. disapproved of Luther and other Protestant reformers (didn’t want to destroy unit)
Erasmus: made connections
vulgate (stanard latin edition of bible), contained errors and edited Greek text of New Testament and annotations (commentary on Vulgate)
Eramus: reform of Church
- spreading understanding of philosophy of Jesus 2. provide education inEarly Christianity 3. making common sense cristiscsm of absnese of church (praise of folly, cirtism of corrupt practices of own society)
Thomas More
- serive to the king (favor persecution because of hisintolerance of heresey, opposed England’s break with church) 2. interest in new Classical learning and trained in law 3. athrough have government serive had intellectual and spriitual interests (friendw ith humanists, Erasmus, translations, poetry, devot man) 4. Utopia
Utopia
ideliastic life and institutions of Utopia, reflect own concerns with society, solid system (copperation and reason more important, communal not private ownership)
corruption of the Church
- popes (failed to provide spiritual leadership) 2. dlergy (papal preoccuption with finances and economic changes, highest positions were nobles and wealthy people) 3. pluralism (high church officials took over one church office, then more money, lead ot absesntism) 4. priests (ignorant and without skill)
absteeism
church officials ignore duties, hired lower people
salvation
looking for meaningful religious expression and certainity of slavtion beliefs (mechanical, Modern devotion)
looking for meaningful religious expression and certainity of slavtion beliefs (mechanical)
relics venerated, collections of objects collected (indulgences)
looking for meaningful religious expression and certainity of slavtion beliefs (modern devotion)
soughtout certainity of slvation through Modern Devotion (not focus on religious faith, focus on jesus, kemphis)
Kemphis
limitation of church, when get to hevean, judged on how religiously we have lived
calls for reformation
- calls for reformation by Francisn, DOminicans, Augustmans (emaphsis, preaching to lay people) 2. oratery of love (Italy, clergy and laymen emphasis to personal devotion and charity) 3. philosophy of Christ (eramus) 4. Zimmes (active in using christian humanism to reform the church, had copy of imitation of Christ)
Eraly Luther
- master in liberal arts (not content) 2. studied law 3. caught in a thunderstorm (if survived will become a monk) 4. monastery (focused on assurance of salvation, traditional beliefs didn’t satisfy him espcially sacrament of confession 5. confessed but still doubtful (recommended to study theology) 6. saw himself as not a heretic and innovator
sacrament of conession
way of recieving God’s grace and sins forgiven
Luther’s ideas compared to the church
CHURCH: salvation (faith and good works)
LUTHER: human beings would never do enough goods works to claim salvation, human saved by faith in God, the bible is the chief guide to religious truth
indulgence
origins, pope leo X , Tetzel(financed construction of Saint peter’s Bascilic)
Luther and induelnces
- through indulgences guarantted enternal doom instead of salvation (didn’t intend to break with church) 2. 95 thesis (accusation of abuses of sales of indulgens, recieved sympahty from Germans who did not like the papal polices and power) 3. deepended his ideas on slavtion