Christian Ethics Final

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Damasus (3)

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-first "Pope"
-Bishop of Rome=top position in Church
-Rome = foundation of the Church
-Causes first rift in East and West because

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"Caesaropapism" (3)

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-West accuses East of trying to make the emporer the Pope
-Ambrose sets up power of Church over state
-Damasus sets up power within

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Excommunication (3)

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-exclusion of someone from participation of sacraments and religious services
-Ambrose first excommunicates emporer Theodosius
-Power of Christianity over empire

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indirect (3)

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-Pope could shut down the church in a geographical area
-Church actions can't take place there
-ex. no marriage, baptism, funerals

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consilliar

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-people become educated
-counter argument
-all matters of faith and practices should be determined by a council within the church

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Donation of Constantine

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-Constantine gives power to pope Sylvester, pope gives it back
-used by popes to show that they grant power to rulers

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Cluniac (Reforms)

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-monastic movement
-makes clergical (monastic) celibacy a law and church agrees
-opposes simony (buying of positions within church hierarchy)
-Condemnation of investiture (feudal lords and vassals appointing church leaders)

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Simony (2)

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-intertwining of temporal and spiritual authority
-secular rulers wanted to appoint centrally organized clergy in administrations
-buying of positions

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investiture (2)

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-appointment of bishops, abbots, and other church officials by feudal lords and vassals
-question of who should appoint caused conflict bwtween Catholic Church and State

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Investiture Controversy (4)

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-Conflict about who should appoint church officials, church or state
-Pope Gregory VII said only the Pope could appoint
-disrupted balance of power (HRE IV)
-Both claimed they excommunciated eachother
-Finally: Secular rulers may no longer appoint church officials

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Bernard of Clairvaux (4)

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-Abelard's main opponent
-unofficial Pope, rivals hierarchy
-telos is love, not knowledge (against scholasticism)
-Christ is teacher, be like Christ

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Catherine of Siena (3)

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-3rd order Dominican (monastic vows, live in the world)
-Took vow of virginity because of visions
-Popular, influential, healed schisms (important)

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Meister Eckhart (spiritual master) (4)

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-one of few mid-evil mystics to have works condemned by church
-decreation & unknowing
-divides contemplation and action
-radical & dangerous to church

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Decreation (4)

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-process toward mystical union (purgation)
-emptying yourself so you can be filled with God
-erase your knowledge of the world so you can be filled with God
-letting go & letting be

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unknowing (3)

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-abandoning your attempts to know God
-something deeper than all knowledge and experience,
-you must throw out everything until your soul touches God

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Vicar of Christ (5)

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-God said "on this rock I build my church"
-Christ said to Peter: "feed my sheep"
-Peter was acting as a stand in for Jesus
-Pope is stand in for Peter
-Gave the Pope HUGE amounts of power because it made him the stand in for Jesus

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Cistercians (6)

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-monastic movement founded in response to Cluniac movement
-because of Cluny monks were fat and lazy, needed to do more labor
-needed to withdraw from world more
-refused gifts of money
-focused on seclusion
-Bernard "functional buildings"

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Cluniacs (wealth) (3)

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-too much work, needs to be more prayer and song, spirituality
-Cluny
-pushed reforms such as celibacy of Clergy

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Abbot Suger (3)

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-Rebuilt church using bold neoplatonic styles
-Gothic architecture
-material things can lead to God because they are inspiring

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Bernard of Clairvaux (wealth) (4)

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-disturbed by Abbot Suger
-pushed functional buildings and giving the rest to the poor
-wasting is sinful
-you must renounce wealth to be closer go God

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evangelical poverty (4)

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-people want to be like Jesus and the Apostles
-because of increased materialism
-rich would "choose" to give up e/t
-threatened church's authority because it implied that bishops and popes were living incorrectly

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Ad fontes (2)

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-latin for "to the sources"
-belief that chrisitianity could be renewed by going back to early church practices

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Vulgate (3)

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-only availabe translation of bible available
-Jerome translated the Old Testament from Hebrew of the Tanak
-had may problems/mistakes

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sententiae (2)

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-sentences of quotations from the Bible or early church sholars
-not learning full idea or theology

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Erasmus (6)

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-Early reformer
-Dutch scholar, theologian, humanist
-guide to following Jesus as a model (for lay people)
-calls for reading scripture
-inner piety (clergy aren't superior, doesn't talk of formal church)
-emphasis on lay

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Indulgences (3)

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-church's elimination of penalty for sin
-started with Crusades
-deals with purgatory time

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Sola fides (1)

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-salvation happends through faith alone

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Sola scriptura (1)

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-salvation happends through reading/believing scripture alone

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justification (5)

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-being made righteous
-being made iustus
-to be made right with God
-to be justified
-to be saved

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sanctification

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-really becoming righteous
-process of regeneration/transformation
-being made holy/perfect
-up until reformation, justification and sanctification are the same thing

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Via Moderna (5)

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-the modern way
-E-->G-->E+G-->S
-Doing the best you can, doing something
-We aren't really good enough but God has to save us because that's the convenant
-You aren't "becoming gold"

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antinomian (4)

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-Luther
-No rules for behavior
-we can do whatever we want to
-good works and behavior have nothing to do with getting us saved

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simul iustus et peccator (3)

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-we are saved but we are still sinners
-we are at the same time righteous and sinner, always will be
-being justified does not mean being sactified

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Zwingli (6)

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-Reformed Church
-Switzerland, same time as Luther
-Influenced by humanism
-direct relationship with God
-sola scriptura
-community & morals, not theology

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Doctrine of providence (3)

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-God Fills his divine purpose for us by guiding us
-God directly involved in Guiding us (direct relationship)
-Zwingly

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Doctrine of Election (5)

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-other primary doctrine of reformed church
-Calvin
-God chooses who shall be saved & not be saved
-Good works are not cause of salvation but proof
-Puts good works and moral behavior back into center of religious life

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Antabaptist (4)

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-re-baptising
-people who formed had been baptised in catholic church, rebirth requires new baptism
-get back to simple bibical pattern of life
-3 types: evangelical, revolutionary, contemplative

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Dictatus Papae

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Gregory VII

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The Dialogue

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Catherine of Siena

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About Disinterest, and The Sermons

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Meister Eckhart

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Thomas Muntzer

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Revolutionary

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Balthasar Hubmaier

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Revolutionary

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Menno Simons

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Evangelical