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1
Lecture 6 The Reformation
  • Ann T. Orlando
  • April 11, 2007

2
Introduction
  • Papal Crises in Late Middle Ages
  • Martin Luther
  • Other reformers
  • Calvin
  • Anabaptists
  • Henry VIII
  • Catholic Response
  • Ignatius Loyola
  • Council of Trent
  • 16th Century World-Wide Missionary Activities

3
Papal Status as of 1303
  • Pope Boniface VIII
  • Unam Sanctam encyclical stating Pope is over king
  • Philip IV ignores Encyclical
  • Captures Boniface and humiliates him
  • Boniface dies 1303
  • Bonifaces successor
  • Tension between Roman families and French over
    who should be Pope
  • Clement V was elected through French influence
    and lived in France, beginning of Avignon Papacy

4
Avignon Papacy
  • During this period (1309-1377), Papacy dependent
    on France
  • Some of Popes in this period were guilty of
    nepotism as well as simony
  • Catherine of Sienna (1347-1380)
  • Mystic who was very popular educated by
    Dominicans
  • Able to end warring family factions in Italy
  • Pressured Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome,
    which he did in 1377
  • Declared a doctor of Church in 1970
  • Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373)
  • Mother of Queen Catherine of Sweden
  • After becoming a widow, moved to Rome, founded an
    order (Brigittines) devoted to poor of Rome and
    politics of returning Pope to Rome

5
Great Western Schism
  • Urban VI succeeded Gregory XI
  • Managed to alienate both French and Romans
  • Cardinals who had elected Urban abandoned him and
    elected a new pope, Clement VII who moves back to
    Avignon
  • Everyone in Western Europe chooses sides
  • France, Scotland back Clement
  • England and HRE (Germany and Spain) back Urban
  • Italian city states changed sides frequently
  • Rival Popes needed funds
  • Simony
  • Sale of indulgences

6
Conciliar Movement
  • In 1394 theologians at University of Paris
    suggest a council to elect Pope
  • Council gathers at Pisa in 1409, and both Popes
    are asked to resign
  • Takes steps against simony
  • Elects Alexander V
  • Now there are three Popes Rome, Avignon, Pisa
  • Another Council at Constance in 1414-1418
  • Haec Sancta Council of Bishops pre-eminent over
    Pope
  • Elect Martin V, end of Great Schism
  • Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438-1445
  • Constantinople under threat from Ottoman Turks
    seeks help
  • Formula for reunion of East and West
  • Leads to enhanced stature of Pope Eugene IV in
    Rome

7
Popes of 15th and 16th Centuries
  • Pius II (1458-1464) issues Execrabilis, that no
    council is over the Pope, repudiates Council of
    Constance
  • Alexander VI (1492-1503), most notorious Borgia
    Pope
  • Julius II (1503-1513), leads armies in battle to
    solidify Papal States, decides to rebuild St.
    Peters Basilica
  • Old St Peters built by Constantine in very bad
    condition
  • What had been largest church in Christendom now a
    mosque
  • Leo X (1513-1521), Now that God has given us the
    Papacy, let us enjoy it.
  • Popular joke is ROMA Radix Omnia Malorum
    Avaritia (Avarice the Root of All Evil)
  • Note, however, that these same Popes were also
    patrons for some of the most important artists of
    Renaissance and Baroque
  • These same Popes were champions of learning and
    encouraged establishment of major libraries,
    including Vatican library
  • And arguably the worst of them, Alexander VI,
    should be given some measure of redemption for
    declaring that Indians had souls
  • Popes in very weakened political situation after
    Avignon papacy reliant on sale of indulgences
    and simony for funds

8
Political Situation Early 16th C
  • Byzantine Empire destroyed
  • Powerful Ottoman Turks in control of Eastern and
    Southern Mediterranean
  • Spain newly unified after expulsion of Muslims
  • France and England in uneasy truce after Hundred
    Years War
  • France and HRE in occasional battles over eastern
    France (or western Germany)
  • Strong National Rulers
  • Francois I of France
  • Charles V HRE (Spain, Germany, Netherlands)
  • Henry VII in England

9
German Reformation
  • How it started 1517, Albrecht of Mainz wants to
    be Archbishop
  • Albrecht buys his archbishopric from Rome (Leo
    X) Rome needs the money in part to help pay for
    rebuilding of St. Peters
  • Rome authorizes the preaching of a special
    indulgence in Germany, with the money to go to
    Albrecht to repay him
  • Martin Luther (1483-1546)
  • Responds to this situation with 95 Thesis
  • Go far beyond denouncing sin of simony and
    corruption fundamentally calls into question
    Romes primacy and theology of indulgences
    denounces scholasticism
  • German princes, especially Fredrick the Wise of
    Saxony, support Luther against Rome and against
    HRE Charles V

10
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
  • Luther was influenced by humanism studied
    Biblical languages and the early Church Fathers,
    especially Augustine
  • Driven by internal and external events
  • Internal struggle
  • As a young Augustinian monk, Luther struggles to
    appease God for his sins
  • Finally realizes that nothing he can do can
    appease God
  • Salvation must be Gods free gift that one
    accepts by faith

11
Lutheran Theology Three Solas
  • Sola Scriptura
  • Rejection of philosophical developments
    Scripture is all that one needs
  • Scripture should be available to everyone,
    unmediated Luther translates Bible into German,
    although with his own interpretation built into
    it
  • Return to original Biblical languages for
    Biblical study reject any OT books not written
    in Hebrew (deutrocanonical books i.e., most
    philosophical books)
  • Very important that everyone can read
  • Sola Fides
  • Faith in Jesus Christ is necessary and sufficient
    for salvation
  • Universal priesthood of all believers
  • Sola Gratia
  • Only Gods grace can save you
  • Only two sacraments Baptism and Eucharist
  • Accepts Real Presence, but not transubstantiation
    as a way to describe it

12
Luther-Erasmus Debates on Free Will
  • Replay of Pelagian controversy
  • Erasmus writes a book, called On Free Will, like
    Augustine wrote early in his career
  • In response Luther writes a book called On
    Bondage of Will, makes points similar to
    Augustine against Pelagius on need for grace,
    predestination
  • As in Pelagian controversy, how does one
    interpret Pauls Letter to Romans?

13
John Calvin (1509 - 1564)
  • Accepted Luthers maxim Sola Scriptura, Sola
    Fides, Sola Gratia) and extended it
  • Accepted double predestination (as defined by
    Augustine)
  • Rejected real presence in Eucharist
  • Established a holy city in Geneva
  • Calvinism, had an extensive influence on
    Protestant movement, especially in Scotland
    (Presbyterians), France (Huguenots) and England
    (Puritans)
  • Note that all reformers looked to Augustine as
    their patron saint

14
Anabaptists (Radical Reform)
  • Opposed infant baptism rather baptism should be
    accepted when one accepted faith in Jesus Christ
  • Luther was both opposed to them
  • Considered themselves completely separate from
    State did not believe that all professing
    Christians were part of Church
  • Politically and religiously exclusive thus
    persecuted by all others as a threat to civil
    unity

15
Reformation in England
  • Henry VIII initially opposes Luther, remains
    faithful to Rome
  • Henry married Catherine of Spain in 1509
    (daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, aunt of
    Charles V)
  • marriage yields no male heir
  • Pope Clement VII refuses to annul marriage
  • Note the request comes in 1527, just after
    Charles V had sacked Rome and Clement not eager
    to further provoke Charles
  • Henry declares himself head of Church in England
    1532
  • Thomas More and other executed 1535
  • Very little doctrinal disagreement between Henry
    VIII and Rome

16
Religious Map of Europe c. 1560
17
Catholic Response Jesuits
  • Jesuits (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius
    Loyola (1491-1556)
  • NOT founded to counter Reformation but charter
    put Jesuits on front lines against Reformers
  • Education very important in Jesuit belief
  • Jesuits very focused on work among people
  • Jesuit life-style in many ways opposite that of a
    monastery

18
Key Points of Jesuit Charter (1541)
  • Vow not to accept ecclesiastical dignities
  • Special relationship to Pope
  • Increased probations. The novitiate is prolonged
    from one year to two, with a third year, which
    usually falls after the priesthood. Candidates
    are moreover at first admitted to simple vows
    only, solemn vows coming much later on
  • The Society does not keep choir
  • It does not have a distinctive religious habit
  • It is also said to have been the first order to
    undertake officially and by virtue of its
    constitutions active works such as the following
  • foreign missions, at the pope's bidding
  • the education of youth of all classes
  • the instruction of the ignorant and the poor
  • ministering to the sick, to prisoners, etc.

19
Catholic Response Council of Trent
  • Called by Pope Paul III
  • Lengthy, intermittent (1545-1563)
  • Pope initially reluctant to call council because
    of bad experiences with councils (especially
    Council of Constance) in 15th C
  • Purpose was both to address reform of practice
    and to uphold Catholic doctrine
  • Developed in several sessions
  • Jesuits play a major theological role at Trent
    encouraged explicit statement of Catholic
    doctrine in opposition to Protestant views

20
Key Theological Statements from Trent
  • Scripture and tradition
  • Sacraments are effect through performance of
    sacramental action, ex opere operato
  • Affirmed Mass as sacrifice and transubstantiation
  • Affirmed 7 sacraments
  • Good works together with faith brings about
    salvation
  • Affirmed indulgences and intercession of saints

21
Revived Catholic Spirituality
  • Teresa of Avila 1515-1582
  • Pioneered major reforms of monastic orders (male
    and female)
  • Special relationship with John of Cross
  • Encouraged renewed devotion of Catholics in
    opposition to Protestants
  • First woman declared a doctor of Church (1970)
  • John of Cross 1542-1591
  • Follower of Theresa of Avila
  • Mystic and writer of popular devotional works
  • Francis de Sales 1567-1622
  • Educated by Jesuits
  • Argued against Calvinists bishop in absentia of
    Geneva
  • Wrote popular devotional works On Devout Life
    very influential

22
Expansion of Spanish and Portuguese Culture 16th C
  • Voyages of discovery
  • Driven by economics
  • Religion followed economics
  • Jesuits and Franciscans were primary Catholic
    missionary orders
  • Many saw colonization of new world (Western
    Hemisphere) as a way to escape turmoil of old
    world
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