Louis XIV: Spreading Off Medieval Traditions
Throughout centuries religion has been controversial, but has also impacted social, politics, and culture in society. Brushing off medieval traditions a new idea called the Renaissance swept people off their feet, because it was an era of rebirth. Other scholars have looked at this period as the beginning of early modern Europe. Since The Early Renaissance, a philosopher named Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola in his novel, On the Dignity of Man, he found the theme of the Renaissance he claimed that “…reason and the truth of the Bible share a basic unity that is reflected in the history of thought” (Readings to Accompany Experience Humanities 1), meaning that its view that it has on human nature has no limits and is the prototype of the Renaissance idea of the unless possibilities; and to this day, this idea of free expression is the defining trait of Western culture.
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Mannerism. It was classified that High Renaissance was full of repose, harmony, and heroism. High Renaissance touched on the aesthetic aims of secularism and idealism, that eventually secularism, affected the writing of history than it did with the arts and architecture; where the church and religious subjects still had control. However, mannerist painters, sculptors, and architects chose new, but oddly, perspectives that called attention to artists’ technical effects and their point of view. As the High Renaissance and early mannerism was going on in 1503-1603, it was transforming Europe by a literary movement, two new artistic styles, and a religious crisis. The religious crisis had begun in Germany, launching a movement that shattered how people viewed religion in west, and how it impacted literary and the artistic scene. Two hostile group known as the Protestants wanted to renovate the church, but the Roman Catholics at the time were pleased with how the church was. Martin Luther, a former founder of the Protestant Reformation, changed the structure and theology of Western Christianity, but he also influenced social, economic, and political developments and thought across Europe, and around the globe. Luther was upset with how the church was raising money but didn’t think people would be interested in his thoughts about the church. In his publication of Ninety-Five These, his followers started to protest to reform the clergy and also demands of a reorganization of the Catholic hierarchy, and to also introduce a set of radical religious beliefs and practices. Another abuse that the church was doing was “…selling of indulgences-pardons that reduced the amount of penance that Christians had to atone for their sins… (Experience Humanities 368). Luther did not accept these indulgences that the church was doing and it had been occurring for centuries to rebuild churches and to fund their respective projects. These questions challenged confession, penance, and the authority of the pope. Luther had also come to a conclusion that salvation does not come in good works but it comes from “…justification by faith alone…” meaning buying indulgences is trying to buy salvation, which contradicted the bible. Luther also said that the only source people should look up to is the bible not the pope or church councils. This was another reason how religion impacted European society.
The Baroque Age I (1600-1715) was considered a new European age.
The Catholic Church and the Protestants continued to disagree with one another. The baroque ideas helped distinguished the propaganda aspects of this era on politics and religion. A leader named Louis XIV ruled France. He made his private and public life the embodiment of the French state, meaning that he was the state. What was horrifying about this was Louise XIV was practicing and leaning more towards an absolute government where citizens had to follow his orders. Louis XIV, when in power, cancelled the freedom to the Huguenots and persecuted them to devout themselves to Catholicism, and if they disagreed they were either fled into exile or murdered. This was a terrifying time for people who had different cultural/religious backgrounds; having emplaced a government whose absolute is giving every individual’s freedom to that government, and a government which decides the type of religion an individual should believe. Religion had an impact on society and the type of behavior that resulted from
this.
During The Baroque Age II (1600-1715), this was the era that established ways of thinking. Galileo Galilei had published Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems- Ptolemaic and Copernican. The methods that Galileo had inquired furthered adopted the scientific method known as an effective learning device in modern time, Galileo was also considered a hero of early modern science but was also a threat to the Catholic Church. Galileo did try to convince the church that his scientific discoveries were not a threat to Christian beliefs, even though he had evidence, he was humiliated by the work that he had published “…he remained a martyr to the cause of scientific inquiry and a victim of the struggle between religion and science (Readings to Accompany Experience Humanities 119). Religion was the center of attention and Galileo’s discoveries did go against what the bible stated, even if Galileo wasn’t trying to justify that his findings were correct, but Galileo wanted to share what he found, so that others could investigate and question theories, challenge or change ideas that have been questionable for nearly two thousand years. This was another way religion impacted society, it kept European states enclosed to the discoveries that Galileo and many others had discovered, but also changed how people started to respond to certain ideas and how it was the beginning of being open minded.
From the years 1700-1789 were classified as the Age of Reason. Two different religious trends emerged: the Deist faith, which appealed to a small group of thinkers; and a Protestant sect, which attracted all types of classes in Europe and the New World. Both these trends were controversial and their effects are still felt in the West today. Those who worshipped Deism believed in a Supreme Being “…who created the universe and set the laws of nature or human affairs” (Experience Humanities 440), they also rejected praying and did not agree with Jesus’s role from savior to good moral examples. It’s appealed that it had was limited, it marked another shift in religious attitudes and was concluded as evidence of the growing secularization of European consciousness. As for the Protestant sect, it was considered as the First Great Awakening but it soon died out in England, but showed an impact in what would be the United States. It led a foundation for what would become as the Bible belt which would reach out to women and African Americans, this movement was intended to democratize religion in colonial life. The Protestant sects tended to weaken the ties and establishment of churches to local British officials, this caused social and political implications, which would become the American Revolution. The Great Awakening influence remained strong, but became the prototype of religious revivals in America’s history. Following the years 1760-1830, the Roman Catholic Church wanted to prevent the spread of revolutionary political ideas.
During the nineteenth century, it was rich in intellect. Popular religion was in protest against the embryonic secular state, and it eventually gave a rise to evangelicalism. What challenged religion and its traditions was science and thought, and having a more understanding of the world and history. A liberal named Pius IX (pope 1846-1878) issued an encyclical, the Syllabus of Errors, in this encyclical he announced modern ideas that were brought upon, public schooling, liberalism, democracy, socialism, and religious toleration. After this was brought up, it alarmed some Christians and German Protestants, and began to study the bible, these authors also tried finding the original author of each biblical story, the whole point of this was to not rely on old accounts, and to also test the accuracy of each author instead of accepting it as God’s final word, this began to cause an issue on how the church was being viewed in society, and the types of changes that were occurring outside of the church. Geologists at this time were starting to discredit the stories of the bible “…then biologists questioned the divine origin of humans beings” (Experience Humanities 506). However, this eventually became biology’s threat to biblical authority. Before this era, most people were not open to what was around them; they were not questioning their religion or questioning how mankind was created.
Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, also caused controversial between science and religion. Darwin argued “…the idea that all life began with a common ancestor, an amoeba-like being…it is a principle of biology operating throughout nature” (Readings to Accompany Experience Humanities 217). In other words, Darwin says the plants, animals, and humans are a vast cousinhood. Therefore, Darwin destroyed the biblical view of how humans were created. In the bible it provides a story of Adam and Eve and how they were the first humans to be created by God, after creating them he created plants and the animal kingdom. Darwin defended his argument by replacing it with the principle of evolution “…species tend to be preserved, while unfavorable variations are destroyed; the result is the formation of new species (Readings to Accompany Experience Humanities 218). These variation that Darwin claimed that this was done without having a divine creator, but that the idea of natural selection is how creatures evolve by survival of the fittest. This impacted religion in how individuals were starting to find out how mankind was created but also see the importance on science.
Religion and its development in the Age of Early Modernism occurred in 1870-1914. A new term called Social Gospel arose in the 1880s, where it stressed on social betterment rather than stressing on person piety. This reformation “…rooted in Jesu’s social teachings and the Jewish prophets…” (Experience Humanities 538) it called for social justice. This was the evangelical’s secondary goal to have churches look at as their primary tenet. The Social Gospel also taught Americans about industrialism and how it could be made into something positive by social outreach projects, this proves how there should be some sort of faith an individual should have in their life. Meaning that individuals need faith to have hope for what’s next after death. After, evangelicals transformed themselves into becoming a fundamentalist movement where they held certain basic beliefs “…the inerrancy of the Holy Bible, the need to be born again, the truth of miracles, and the belief in the resurrection” (Experience Humanities 539). This was the last period where religious values continued to motivate society.
With advancements in science and changes in how people thought were occurring and it also challenged the authority of the bible and the biblical authority. Religion did have an influence within social, politics, and culture values in European society. Since the beginning of the Renaissance and early modernism, there has been a transition throughout the centuries with religion. Most states required to have religion installed into their government, but as the human population started to progress, it started to leave religious traditions out of government. It was also seen that religion can impact society in good matters.
From High Renaissance to early …show more content…
Mannerism. It was classified that High Renaissance was full of repose, harmony, and heroism. High Renaissance touched on the aesthetic aims of secularism and idealism, that eventually secularism, affected the writing of history than it did with the arts and architecture; where the church and religious subjects still had control. However, mannerist painters, sculptors, and architects chose new, but oddly, perspectives that called attention to artists’ technical effects and their point of view. As the High Renaissance and early mannerism was going on in 1503-1603, it was transforming Europe by a literary movement, two new artistic styles, and a religious crisis. The religious crisis had begun in Germany, launching a movement that shattered how people viewed religion in west, and how it impacted literary and the artistic scene. Two hostile group known as the Protestants wanted to renovate the church, but the Roman Catholics at the time were pleased with how the church was. Martin Luther, a former founder of the Protestant Reformation, changed the structure and theology of Western Christianity, but he also influenced social, economic, and political developments and thought across Europe, and around the globe. Luther was upset with how the church was raising money but didn’t think people would be interested in his thoughts about the church. In his publication of Ninety-Five These, his followers started to protest to reform the clergy and also demands of a reorganization of the Catholic hierarchy, and to also introduce a set of radical religious beliefs and practices. Another abuse that the church was doing was “…selling of indulgences-pardons that reduced the amount of penance that Christians had to atone for their sins… (Experience Humanities 368). Luther did not accept these indulgences that the church was doing and it had been occurring for centuries to rebuild churches and to fund their respective projects. These questions challenged confession, penance, and the authority of the pope. Luther had also come to a conclusion that salvation does not come in good works but it comes from “…justification by faith alone…” meaning buying indulgences is trying to buy salvation, which contradicted the bible. Luther also said that the only source people should look up to is the bible not the pope or church councils. This was another reason how religion impacted European society.
The Baroque Age I (1600-1715) was considered a new European age.
The Catholic Church and the Protestants continued to disagree with one another. The baroque ideas helped distinguished the propaganda aspects of this era on politics and religion. A leader named Louis XIV ruled France. He made his private and public life the embodiment of the French state, meaning that he was the state. What was horrifying about this was Louise XIV was practicing and leaning more towards an absolute government where citizens had to follow his orders. Louis XIV, when in power, cancelled the freedom to the Huguenots and persecuted them to devout themselves to Catholicism, and if they disagreed they were either fled into exile or murdered. This was a terrifying time for people who had different cultural/religious backgrounds; having emplaced a government whose absolute is giving every individual’s freedom to that government, and a government which decides the type of religion an individual should believe. Religion had an impact on society and the type of behavior that resulted from
this.
During The Baroque Age II (1600-1715), this was the era that established ways of thinking. Galileo Galilei had published Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems- Ptolemaic and Copernican. The methods that Galileo had inquired furthered adopted the scientific method known as an effective learning device in modern time, Galileo was also considered a hero of early modern science but was also a threat to the Catholic Church. Galileo did try to convince the church that his scientific discoveries were not a threat to Christian beliefs, even though he had evidence, he was humiliated by the work that he had published “…he remained a martyr to the cause of scientific inquiry and a victim of the struggle between religion and science (Readings to Accompany Experience Humanities 119). Religion was the center of attention and Galileo’s discoveries did go against what the bible stated, even if Galileo wasn’t trying to justify that his findings were correct, but Galileo wanted to share what he found, so that others could investigate and question theories, challenge or change ideas that have been questionable for nearly two thousand years. This was another way religion impacted society, it kept European states enclosed to the discoveries that Galileo and many others had discovered, but also changed how people started to respond to certain ideas and how it was the beginning of being open minded.
From the years 1700-1789 were classified as the Age of Reason. Two different religious trends emerged: the Deist faith, which appealed to a small group of thinkers; and a Protestant sect, which attracted all types of classes in Europe and the New World. Both these trends were controversial and their effects are still felt in the West today. Those who worshipped Deism believed in a Supreme Being “…who created the universe and set the laws of nature or human affairs” (Experience Humanities 440), they also rejected praying and did not agree with Jesus’s role from savior to good moral examples. It’s appealed that it had was limited, it marked another shift in religious attitudes and was concluded as evidence of the growing secularization of European consciousness. As for the Protestant sect, it was considered as the First Great Awakening but it soon died out in England, but showed an impact in what would be the United States. It led a foundation for what would become as the Bible belt which would reach out to women and African Americans, this movement was intended to democratize religion in colonial life. The Protestant sects tended to weaken the ties and establishment of churches to local British officials, this caused social and political implications, which would become the American Revolution. The Great Awakening influence remained strong, but became the prototype of religious revivals in America’s history. Following the years 1760-1830, the Roman Catholic Church wanted to prevent the spread of revolutionary political ideas.
During the nineteenth century, it was rich in intellect. Popular religion was in protest against the embryonic secular state, and it eventually gave a rise to evangelicalism. What challenged religion and its traditions was science and thought, and having a more understanding of the world and history. A liberal named Pius IX (pope 1846-1878) issued an encyclical, the Syllabus of Errors, in this encyclical he announced modern ideas that were brought upon, public schooling, liberalism, democracy, socialism, and religious toleration. After this was brought up, it alarmed some Christians and German Protestants, and began to study the bible, these authors also tried finding the original author of each biblical story, the whole point of this was to not rely on old accounts, and to also test the accuracy of each author instead of accepting it as God’s final word, this began to cause an issue on how the church was being viewed in society, and the types of changes that were occurring outside of the church. Geologists at this time were starting to discredit the stories of the bible “…then biologists questioned the divine origin of humans beings” (Experience Humanities 506). However, this eventually became biology’s threat to biblical authority. Before this era, most people were not open to what was around them; they were not questioning their religion or questioning how mankind was created.
Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, also caused controversial between science and religion. Darwin argued “…the idea that all life began with a common ancestor, an amoeba-like being…it is a principle of biology operating throughout nature” (Readings to Accompany Experience Humanities 217). In other words, Darwin says the plants, animals, and humans are a vast cousinhood. Therefore, Darwin destroyed the biblical view of how humans were created. In the bible it provides a story of Adam and Eve and how they were the first humans to be created by God, after creating them he created plants and the animal kingdom. Darwin defended his argument by replacing it with the principle of evolution “…species tend to be preserved, while unfavorable variations are destroyed; the result is the formation of new species (Readings to Accompany Experience Humanities 218). These variation that Darwin claimed that this was done without having a divine creator, but that the idea of natural selection is how creatures evolve by survival of the fittest. This impacted religion in how individuals were starting to find out how mankind was created but also see the importance on science.
Religion and its development in the Age of Early Modernism occurred in 1870-1914. A new term called Social Gospel arose in the 1880s, where it stressed on social betterment rather than stressing on person piety. This reformation “…rooted in Jesu’s social teachings and the Jewish prophets…” (Experience Humanities 538) it called for social justice. This was the evangelical’s secondary goal to have churches look at as their primary tenet. The Social Gospel also taught Americans about industrialism and how it could be made into something positive by social outreach projects, this proves how there should be some sort of faith an individual should have in their life. Meaning that individuals need faith to have hope for what’s next after death. After, evangelicals transformed themselves into becoming a fundamentalist movement where they held certain basic beliefs “…the inerrancy of the Holy Bible, the need to be born again, the truth of miracles, and the belief in the resurrection” (Experience Humanities 539). This was the last period where religious values continued to motivate society.
With advancements in science and changes in how people thought were occurring and it also challenged the authority of the bible and the biblical authority. Religion did have an influence within social, politics, and culture values in European society. Since the beginning of the Renaissance and early modernism, there has been a transition throughout the centuries with religion. Most states required to have religion installed into their government, but as the human population started to progress, it started to leave religious traditions out of government. It was also seen that religion can impact society in good matters.