Key Ingredients that Engendered the Protestant Reformation Since the foundations of the Christian faith‚ the Catholic denomination has consistently been the most powerful and largest church community. The Pope held supreme religious power over the world and eventually held position as an important governmental figure. Throughout the times of the Middle Ages and Renaissance the Roman Catholic Church was the central basis and concern for all people. They forced people to obey their laws and pay sums
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the Kings of Medieval Europe. This really shows how important religion was to the people‚ and the Church was the only path to religion. The head of the Church was known as the Pope. The Pope was regarded as being Gods representative. This gave him a huge amount of power and importance. Anyone who turned against the Pope would be banned from the Church and go straight to hell when they died. As this was a time when everyone believed in Heaven and Hell‚ and everyone attended the Church this was considered
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The Catholic Church The Church -from the Latin word “ecclesia” and from the Greek word “ek- kalein” which means convocation or assembly -It designates assembly of the people for the religious purpose. -In Christian usage‚ the word “church” The Church in God’s Plan -God the Father created the whole universe‚ and chose to raise up men to share in his own divine life. -God created the world for the sake of communion with his divine life‚ a communion brought about by the convocation of men
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for a short time before the foothold was lost to the Muslims •The Byzantines faced the threat of invasion from the north (the Germanic tribes) and from the south (the Slavs and the Turkic people) •Over time in the empire‚ the relations between the Pope and the princes worsened •The great schism between the Latin Church and the Orthodox Church took place in 1054‚ a split that still exists today. B.Society and Urban Life •The economic wealth and late Roman Imperial system in the east initially
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is neither the Cathedral of the Pope nor the mother church of Roman Catholicism‚ it is still regarded as one of the holiest Catholic locations. St. Peter’s Basilica is named so because it is the burial site of Saint Peter‚ one of the twelve apostles. There has been a church on this site since the fourth century and many new Popes were interred there‚ as Saint Peter’s tomb is located directly beneath the structure. At the beginning of the sixteenth century‚ Pope Julius II commissioned Bramante
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(Mary I)‚ Henry wanted a son to succeed him on the thrown and Catherine was unable to give him anymore children. Henry also wanted to marry his lover‚ Anne Boleyn but her nephew‚ Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was strongly opposed and he was holding Pope Clement VIII prisoner so he could not approve the divorce without displeasing his captor. Another obvious reason was to do with religion. Henry may have been sympathetic to ideas of protestant‚ Martin Luther and therefore rejected Catholicism. It
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The causes of European the Renaissance are many‚ each very important. However‚ there are three which are the most significant: The rise of cities‚ an increase in public education‚ and the realization of the corruption of the church‚ which at that time dominated society. These causes were linked in many ways. Cities began to become larger and a more popular place to live in the early fourteenth century. People‚ namely surfs‚ began moving out of the manors and in to the cities. Cities allowed and
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The Medieval times and the Renaissance each had their separate views of humanism. The Renaissance rejected all beliefs and ideas that the Medieval times had developed. Medieval times thought that the human body and individualism were sinful while Renaissance thinkers said that individualism should be glorified. The main complaints made against the church were corruption and hypocrisy within the clergy. These complaints reflected the Renaissance ideas of individualism in that the clergy thought that
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belief in the supremacy of the Pope‚ the separate means of salvation‚ and the use of statues and pictures represented by the two simply by paying close attention to the detail in structures. By this time in history‚ there was a line of corrupt Pope’s littering amongst the Catholic faith‚ yet many people still continued to stay Catholic. Most likely‚ this is due to the specific Catholic belief of the power the Pope held. Papal Infallibility‚ or the belief that the Pope was and is unable to do wrong
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1420‚ when Pope Martin V (papacy 1417-31) brought the papacy back the Rome for good‚ it became something of a papal duty to restore the city to its former greatness. Because as many as 100‚000 visitors might swarm into Rome during religious holidays‚ it was important that they be “moved by its extraordinary sights‚” as one pope put it‚ and thus find their “belief continually confirmed and daily corroborated by great buildings … seemingly made by the hand of God.” In other words‚ the popes were charged
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