Session 3: The Rise and Fall of the Papal Hierarchy

Question 1

Attempted to capture the Holy Land from Islamic rule

Answer 1

Crusades

1095-1291

Question 2

3 Goals of the Crusades

Answer 2

1. Win the Holy Land
2. Check the advance of Islam
3. Heal the schism b/w the eastern and western churches

Question 3

One of the popes in papal hierarchy who fought to establish the authority of the papacy over secular rulers

Answer 3

Gregory VII

1020-1085

Question 4

Took the papacy to the apex of its power

Answer 4

Innocent III

1160-1216

Question 5

Challenged Philip IV of France over the tax he had levied upon the clergy

Answer 5

Boniface VIII

1234-1303

Question 6

Definite theologian upon whom most of the current Roman Catholic dogma rests

Answer 6

Thomas Aquinas

1225-1274

Question 7

Pope who spent his career in immorality and political intrigue

Answer 7

Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503)

Question 8

Pope who took more interest in the revival of pagan literature and art than in religion

Answer 8

Pope Leo X (1513-1521)

Question 9

Produced the 1st complete translation of the Bible into English; Morning Star of Reformation

Answer 9

John Wycliffe

1330-1384

Question 10

Read the writings of Wycliffe and began preaching boldly against the corruption of the clergy

Answer 10

Jan Huss

1370-1415

Question 11

Issue prominent during the Middle Ages as Jews exhorted Christians

Answer 11

Antisemitism