MEDIEVAL CHURCH HISTROY MID TERM Flashcards
What is the period of the Middle Ages?
AD. 590- 1517
Between the early church and reformation,
What is History?
The unfolding of Gods providence in time.
What man has done from the beginning to present and also God’s dealings w/man in time and space
Historiography
writing about history
Why the lack of Accuracy?
-Man is finite
-Evidence is finite
Primary Source
a source that is original to the context you are writing about.
secondary source
work written about the person or event
Why Study Medieval Church history?
Protestant forefathers continually qoute Mid evil theologian/ reference them.
Luther, Calvin were living in a Medieval world prior to the reformation. They are ministering in a late Medieval context.
In order to understand the reformation we must understand the medieval period.
Not beginning a new church but desire to reform it.
They were concerned about areas such as the Trinity, Doctrine of Christ, the atonement, Lord’s supper (1800’s by a monk), doctrine of salvation in the late Medieval ages, Doctrine of Scripture- Wicliffe, Huss.
Build on previous work and previouos errors.
Good things in the Medieval period. An embrace of Christianity.
Medieval Ages ended?
1517 the year Luther nailed the 95 thesis
(turning point or catalyst moment)
Med age started?
The 6th (590)century the life of gregory the great.
What was the Medieval period like?
-Wasnt simply a dark disease plaqued age
- Beautful architect during the middle ages
-the term middle ages came from the 15th and 16th century renissance. Viewed period a barberic
-Dark and light ages for the church during middle ages
Constatine
306-24 was the rise of Constatine. This is the hight point of the glory in the roman empire
- Made Christinanity a legal religion not an offical one. result was a flood in the church.
Why did the Roman empire fall?
sycretism and nominalism
CHristians blamed pagans, pagans blamed christians
- Taxes and debt kept growing
economic folly and foolishness
inflation
abudant imorality, wars, barbarian invasion, diseases, slavery
Church during collpase of roman empire
DId not collapse with empire. Remained organized, coherent and structured.
became a place of refuge
only organization left to build society
Gregory the Great
-Born in an infkuenced political church fsmily
-Recieved fsmily inhereitsnce and used it to found 6 monistaries
-Transforms home into a monistery
-becomes a monk for a time
Pope/ Bishop in 590 after being his letters written to the byzantine empire for help was rejected, Plaques and floods, state goverment collapsed, ransomming, people believed Christ must be coming and the world was ending
Gregory rejected the name pope and was called bishop instead
How did pope gregory respond
Do whatever he could do to save the remaining population
- becomes and serves as civil leader
-organizes local militia
dispatch troops, gives tactical advice
-uses money from church treasure to give to soldiers - makes peace treaty with the lombards using church treasure.
More on pope gregory
People begun to look to the church for politcal and spiritual needs. This lays the foundation for later popes, not just ecclestatical but also secular
What was Pope Gregory lilke?
Man of humility
servant of God
Missionary heart
Desired to see advancements of christianity
Qoute by Greggory to the Patriach of Constantine
“whoever calls themsleves the universal preist or wants this title is the antichrist”
Theology of Gregory (strengths)
-Influenced by Augustine
-Depravity of man
-Christ alone by soveriegn grace can rescue sinners from the bondage of sin.
Theology of Gregory (weaknesses)
-Salvation comes by regeneration
-Sinned are washed away by Lord’s supper
-Work of Christ carried out in the sacrements
-Bedding for romes doctrines (seeds of the RCC)
-Belief in purgatory
-Special Lord’s day service for the dead.
- Language of Mass begins in the 590-600
-opposed images/icons unless for teaching
-838 letters of his survived
-emphasis on dreams/miracles
- Gregory would also algorize scriputre in letters
Augustine of Cantenburg
baptism of Jews
10,000 jews were baptized by the preaching of the monks. Voluntary conversions
Patrick of Culuma
key figure
converted in slavery
after escaping salvery, goes to ireland to evangelize pagan area
Celtics
some say they are proto protestants while Augustine of cateburg is proto roman catholicism
Adden MIssionary (celtic monk)
in 751?
paganism replaced Christinaity
Beed (623-675)
“father of english history”
called, “father and master beed”
-many sermons/commentsaires
-new greek, english , hebrew, latin
*** main source of Christian histroy up to the 8th century.
on his death bed he said, “ my soul longs to see Christ my King in all His beauty…”
Bonafice (753)
Labors in the area of Fresha
baptizes many converts
Evangelistic methods
expansion of Islam 732
political weakness as well as superior fighting skills explain the speed with which islam expanded
Birth/rule of muhammad
500s-600s
Quran
286 chapters - “suras”
-arranged by length not chronologicslly
-no clarity of histroy, poetic and prophetic
-recognize prophets of past, muhammad greatest
-judgement day,paradise
-Various schools of interpretation Shehites and Sunis
- quran isnt enough to understand islam, need hadites
Life of Muhammad
570-633
-610 he claims call to prophethood (40) years old
-uncle raised him
-parents died when young
-wanted to end his life (610) with his experinces with “gabriel” thought he was demon possesed
-messenger of allah
Muslims and dating
date there years from the Hijah, the esbalsiment of a community. They are to build a kingdom on earth.
muslims
permission to fight untill their is no more unbelief
Muhammad
killed those who disagreed with his teachings
conquest of Mecca- 630,,, 14,000 men. the Meccans forced to convert
dies years later by being poiinsed by a jewish woman. she said if he was a prophet he wouldnt die.
- final sayings, “may allah curse the jews and christians
The Holy catholic church
begins to split in 740s actually happens in 1054
Charlemagne and Charles
Charlemagne believed Christianity was to spread by using the sword- baptism or die.
Pope leo crowned charlomagne
Charlnesmagne is than crowned by son becuase he doesnt like that authortiy came from prope
Charlemagne views self of OT king/priest like david/josiah/soloman… “Moses of the middle ages”
Theodolph(750-821)
Wrote against heresy
- wrote about filioque clause
-hmyn writer
charloligians
10 th century
the west swings to the east postion of icons