Philosophy 34

Question 0

What swept through Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?

Answer 0

An extraordinary wave of mystical fervor

Question 1

What began to change in the High Middle Ages? Why?

Answer 1

The status of the institutional Church became more controversial because it was visibly influenced by politics and the financial needs of the Church was placing high demands on the Christian masses

Question 2

Eckhart, Tauler, and Suso were concerned with what?

Answer 2

Direct religious illumination and a sanctified life of Christian love and service

Question 3

What “new stress” and “old stress” are presented in the text?

Answer 3

New stress on Biblical faith in God’s Word displaced the stress on dogma and papal sovereignty

Question 4

What two forces were changing in the Church?

Answer 4

The emphasis on the individual and secularization (focusing on the Earth)

Question 5

What is the “new focus” spoken of?

Answer 5

Direct experience and reasoning

Question 6

What “energetic attempt” would backfire? Why?

Answer 6

The energetic attempt to synthesize Aristotelian science with Christian revelation because it was bringing forth all the critical intelligence that would eventually turn against the ancient and ecclesiastical authorities