Semester 2 Final Flashcards
Cardinal
A special assistant to the Pope
Votive masses
Masses held specifically for somebody’s soul/personal intentions. People paid for them.
Brethren of the Common Life
A religious group of lay people founded on the Eve of the Reformation. The Brethren consisted of lay men who chose to live in poor communities so that they could run schools for poor boys
Girolamo Savonarola
A preacher with a strong following who preached about damnation and sin. He was successful because in the early 1500s there was religious emotionalism and obsession with sin and damnation.
“Imitation of Christ” by Thomas a Kempis
The first best-seller. The first popular books were all religious books. Why wasn’t the Bible the first best-seller, then? It was too hard for people’s limited reading skills.
Flagellation
Whipping oneself as a form of penance. Popular practice during the early 1500s.
Pluralism
When one bishop rules over 2, 3, or more diocese. Bishops were doing this on the Eve of the Reformation.
Nepotism
Giving jobs to relatives. Popes before the Reformation were corrupt and practicing nepotism, choosing relatives as cardinals. Started a cycle: unholy cardinals elected unholy popes who appointed unholy cardinals.
Alexander VI (1490)
Rodrigo Borgia became Alexander VI, a controversial Pope. He had kids and mistresses and became Pope because his family was powerful.
Julius II (early 1500s)
A controversial pope, known as the “Soldier Pope.” He did, however, support the arts and got Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Who painted the “Last Supper”?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Relics
Physical objects as signs of divine power
Madonna and Child
A popular theme of religious art: Mary and Baby Jesus
Annunciation
A popular theme of religious art: Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear a child
Pieta
A popular theme of religious art: “pity”; Mary and her dead son
Depravity
Belief in the utterly sinful nature of the human being, and that man is so corrupted that he can do no good without the grace of God. It is fundamental to the thinking of most leaders of the Reformation, and was first developed by Martin Luther.
Purgatory
The time or state of penance after death before going to Heaven. Taken from the Latin word for “cleansing”
Indulgence
Time off from suffering during purgatory or a lightening of a penance. Indulgences came to be exploited by the Church as a means of raising money. Luther saw the pope’s promotion of indulgences as a serious abuse of papal authority.
“95 Theses”
Luther’s invitation to any student or professors at Wittenberg to debate on the university campus about indulgences and other alleged excesses of the church. They are considered to be the spark that set off the Protestant Reformation.
Emperor Charles V
In Germany, there were many princes who supported Luther, for both religious reasons and for reasons of personal gain. Charles V, the Emperor of Germany, was loyal to the Catholic tradition, but he also was willing to support war the Lutheran princes in order to hold his Holy Roman Empire together.
Ulrich Zwingli
He originated the idea of iconoclasm, and he didn’t believe in the Real Presence in the Eucharist
Real Presence
The actual presence of Christ’s body and blood in the Eucharistic elements. Catholics and Lutherans believe in Real Presence, most Protestants do not.
Iconoclasm
“Image-breaking”; a policy of removing all statues, crucifixes, stained glass windows, tabernacles and other ornaments from the churches. Zwingli promoted iconoclasm so nothing distracts from God’s Word.