Semester 2 Final Flashcards
Cardinal
A special assistant to the Pope
Votive masses
Masses held specifically for somebody’s soul/personal intentions. People paid for them.
Brethren of the Common Life
A religious group of lay people founded on the Eve of the Reformation. The Brethren consisted of lay men who chose to live in poor communities so that they could run schools for poor boys
Girolamo Savonarola
A preacher with a strong following who preached about damnation and sin. He was successful because in the early 1500s there was religious emotionalism and obsession with sin and damnation.
“Imitation of Christ” by Thomas a Kempis
The first best-seller. The first popular books were all religious books. Why wasn’t the Bible the first best-seller, then? It was too hard for people’s limited reading skills.
Flagellation
Whipping oneself as a form of penance. Popular practice during the early 1500s.
Pluralism
When one bishop rules over 2, 3, or more diocese. Bishops were doing this on the Eve of the Reformation.
Nepotism
Giving jobs to relatives. Popes before the Reformation were corrupt and practicing nepotism, choosing relatives as cardinals. Started a cycle: unholy cardinals elected unholy popes who appointed unholy cardinals.
Alexander VI (1490)
Rodrigo Borgia became Alexander VI, a controversial Pope. He had kids and mistresses and became Pope because his family was powerful.
Julius II (early 1500s)
A controversial pope, known as the “Soldier Pope.” He did, however, support the arts and got Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Who painted the “Last Supper”?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Relics
Physical objects as signs of divine power
Madonna and Child
A popular theme of religious art: Mary and Baby Jesus
Annunciation
A popular theme of religious art: Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear a child
Pieta
A popular theme of religious art: “pity”; Mary and her dead son
Depravity
Belief in the utterly sinful nature of the human being, and that man is so corrupted that he can do no good without the grace of God. It is fundamental to the thinking of most leaders of the Reformation, and was first developed by Martin Luther.
Purgatory
The time or state of penance after death before going to Heaven. Taken from the Latin word for “cleansing”
Indulgence
Time off from suffering during purgatory or a lightening of a penance. Indulgences came to be exploited by the Church as a means of raising money. Luther saw the pope’s promotion of indulgences as a serious abuse of papal authority.
“95 Theses”
Luther’s invitation to any student or professors at Wittenberg to debate on the university campus about indulgences and other alleged excesses of the church. They are considered to be the spark that set off the Protestant Reformation.
Emperor Charles V
In Germany, there were many princes who supported Luther, for both religious reasons and for reasons of personal gain. Charles V, the Emperor of Germany, was loyal to the Catholic tradition, but he also was willing to support war the Lutheran princes in order to hold his Holy Roman Empire together.
Ulrich Zwingli
He originated the idea of iconoclasm, and he didn’t believe in the Real Presence in the Eucharist
Real Presence
The actual presence of Christ’s body and blood in the Eucharistic elements. Catholics and Lutherans believe in Real Presence, most Protestants do not.
Iconoclasm
“Image-breaking”; a policy of removing all statues, crucifixes, stained glass windows, tabernacles and other ornaments from the churches. Zwingli promoted iconoclasm so nothing distracts from God’s Word.
English Parliament’s Act of Supremacy in 1534
In 1534, Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife but the Pope wouldn’t let him, so he pressured Parliament to pass this act which made the King the supreme head of the Church of England.
“Bloody” Mary
The daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Became Queen of England after King Edward. She tries to make England Catholic again by persecuting and killing Protestants.
Elizabeth I
Queen of England from 1958-1601. She was a Protestant, the daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. She created the “Anglican settlement,” which tried to take a middle ground between Protestantism and Catholicism for the Church of England. She placed herself as head of the church.
Puritans
Unhappy with the Anglican Settlement, the Puritans were Calvinists who wanted to reform the Church of England. They moved to America.
Ignatius
Ignatius was injured and bedridden. While in bed, he read “The Life of Jesus” and a book about saints. He dreamt about being a soldier courting a princess (which left him unhappy) and about leading a saint-like religious life (which left him happy). He tried and failed to go to the Holy Land. Then he studied for 14 years, wrote the Spiritual Exercises, and founded the Society of Jesus.
Society of Jesus
AKA Jesuits. A religious order founded by St. Ignatius. They take the usual vows, and a fourth vow which is unique to Jesuits–complete obedience to the pope. Requires 30 days of reflection based on the Spiritual Exercises and 16 years of schooling/training in philosophy and theology.
“Spiritual Exercises”
Written by St. Ignatius, the Spiritual Exercises was a retreat guide that calls for a person to pull back from daily concerns and reflect on your relationship with God in order to return back to normal life with renewed religious purpose.
Discernment
Separating and distinguishing our actions, thoughts, remarks, and feelings so you can ask, what is God telling me that I need to know?
Examen
A daily or weekly process to examine our actions, thoughts, remarks, and feelings and discern them.
Council of Trent
A Council that went from 1545-63 that met in three sections to address doctrinal issues that Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, etc. had brought up and reform the Church. Reaffirmed the belief in Real Presence. Taught that original sin is removed by Christ, but a tendency to sin (concupiscence) remains. They agreed with Luther that justification comes from the grace of God, but said that it also includes voluntary receiving of grace through faithful and loving works.
Tradition
What is handed down
Seminary
A school for the training of young men so that priests can be good pastors.
Vernacular
The language of the people
Index
A list of forbidden, heretic books which good Christians should not read.
Missal
Standardizes what mass readings are read on which day and contains all parts of the Latin Mass.
Catechism
A summary of Catholic doctrine
Inquisition
Created by Pope Paul IV, this organization searched for heretics and was often brutal in its methods. Notorious for its work in Spain and Rome
Theresa of Avila
A nun who experienced feverish ecstasies during prayer. She was a mystic.
Mystic
Someone known for deep union with God in prayer
Francis Xavier SJ
Considered to be “ the greatest missionary since St. Paul.” He spread Christianity in India, Indonesia, and Japan
Vincent de Paul
A genius at recruiting rich people to help poor people
John and Charles Wesley
Created the Methodist movement to restore enthusiasm in the Anglican Church. Charles wrote 2,000 hymns to aid worship
J.S. Bach
A German Lutheran who pioneered the use of the pipe organ in church music
G.F. Handel
Wrote the “Messiah”
“The Messiah”
The most famous example of religious music, written by G.F. Handel
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Sculpted the Ecstasy of St. Teresa and was the architect for the Piazza (plaza) of St. Peter’s Church
Matteo Ricci SJ
Studied Chinese language and culture before teaching the Chinese people about Christianity
Bartolomeo de las Casas
The first to reject the encomiendo system. He quit his job as a manager of an encomiendo to become a bishop. He worked to pass a law banning slavery in the Spanish Empire.
Enlightenment
A movement that encouraged people to leave the “darkness” of faith and superstition to follow the “light” of reason.
Deism
Reasonable belief in a an all-powerful Being who created the world and then let it run by itself without interfering.
Clock-maker
Sir Isaac Newton’s image of a deist creator. God is like a clock-maker: he made the world and then let it go by itself.
Voltaire’s “Candide”
A satire against the Christian belief in providence.
Providence
The idea that a loving God watches over us
Diderot’s “Philosophical Thoughts”
In this book, Diderot taught that humans are good by nature: what we call evil comes from bad reasoning; therefore, our hope lies in education.
Encyclopedia
A book, edited by Diderot, which consisted of essays by prominent thinkers about every major topic that could be imagined. It was a sign of what reason alone could teach us about the world.
Suppression of Jesuits
Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus in order to satiate people who didn’t like how loyal the Jesuits were to the Pope
Pius IX (1846-78)
- Began his papacy and made liberal reforms
- Disliked by the liberals. They drove him out of Rome in 1848.
- The French Army protected Pius.
- He issued the Syllabus of Errors.
- Made himself a “prisoner of the Vatican”
“Syllabus of Errors” (1864)
A document issued by Pius IX, which was misunderstood as an attack on progress and modern civilization.