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    Church history quiz 1

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    Be able to match descriptions with key figures in the early Church history. Ambrose: 1. Popular political leader in Milan. 2. Drafted as bishop in 374 Athanasius: 1. Elder and eventually bishop of Alexandria. 2. Was exiled several times Augustine: 1. Became a believer under Ambrose. 2. Became boshop of hippo 3. Strongly against Donatists and Pelagians. Chtysostom: 1. An elder and eventually a bishop (against his will) in Antioch. Cyril: 1. Bishop of Alexandria. 2. Viewed Jesus as one person

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    The Protestant Reformation

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    Catholicism stands with the Pope as central and appointed by God. Luther’s arguments referred to a direct relationship with God and using the local vernacular to speak to the people. Luther’s arguments remove the absolute power from the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church in general. The revenue from the taxes paid to the Church would be reduced with Luther’s ideas‚ in part because of the removal of buying souls out of purgatory. If purgatory exists‚ then the Pope should empty it out of goodness

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    Gregory the Great

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    Prefect held the highest secular power in Rome as Gregory entered adulthood. In 573‚ he was appointed as the Urban Prefect of Rome‚ and became an overseer of all civil responsibilities and concerns. Within the same year‚ both the Patrician Narses and Pope John III died‚ and Gregory alone was left to face the Lombard invasions‚ pestilence‚ poverty and famine. Perhaps this unwanted‚ unforeseen position of sole responsibility provided Gregory’s resistance to political office for the rest of his life

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    consisted of thousands of devout christian followers. There were seven Crusades in total that had been established by Pope Urban II in 1095 as a response to the advance of Muslim forces in the “Holy Land” known as the Mediterranean or middle east in today’s society. These Crusades were an attempt to cleanse or stop the advancement of Muslims in the Mediterranean‚ many christians fled to Pope Urban II plea to go to war in the Holy land as they would be granted a plenary indulgence that would cleanse them

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    Premodern Religion

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    Paul Lambert Hum 251 Professor Horten 9 / 26 / 2012 The Façade of Pre-Modern Religion During the pre-modern age there was perhaps no larger an aspect of everyday life than religion. Today’s day and age is a stark contrast‚ as religion has for the most part taken a backseat in importance. From the pre-modern age to now‚ religion has changed completely. Pre-modern religion held political power locally‚ and all across Europe. Today religion holds a mostly spiritual power for the truly devout.

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    Martin Luther and Olrich Zwingli wrote documents that showed they were displeased on the way the Catholic Church was operating. Their complaints differed from each other but had some similarities. Martin Luther wrote the “Ninety-Five Theses” and Olrich Zwingli wrote the “Sixty-Seven Articles.” They had a meeting at Marburg and could not agree on the same beliefs‚ so the Protestant revolution did not have a united front. Luther had many criticisms of the Catholic Church. He made a list of complaints

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    During the 1400s and the 1500s many people tried to expose the church’s corruption and to make reforms. These reformers were usually persecuted by church officials and kings‚ some were even burned at the stake. One such reformer who both the pope and emperor Charles V tried to silence was Martin Luther In 1521‚ Martin Luther was summoned by emperor Charles V to the Diet of the Worms to face train for his attacks on the church. Before the Diet of the Worms‚ Luther lets it be known that he did

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    Thus the Pope recognized two Cistercian Orders‚ called today the Order of Citeaux and the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance‚ popularly known as the Trappists. The Order of Citeaux suffered greatly under the communist onslaught‚ not only in Eastern Europe

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    convictions since it is composed to pick up the Pope’s backing. Copernicus recognizes that the Pope is intense‚ in this way obliging Copernicus to pick up the Pope’s backing all together for his work to be best. On the off chance that the Church had as of now seen science emphatically‚ this piece in Copernicus’ book‚ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres‚ would not be fundamental. This portrays how the Pope and the Catholic Church contrarily influenced these scientists. Furthermore‚ others lower

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    in a snake’s coil. The coils indicated to what circle of Hell the damned are destined. The serpent’s bite on the genitals of Minos illustrated Michelangelo’s disdain for the Cardinal. (It is said that when the Cardinal approached the Pope with his complaint‚ the Pope replied that his ‘’jurisdiction did not extend to Hell‚ and the portrait would have to

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