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The Church through the Ages
The Middle Ages, 1000-1450
Larry Fraher
Kino Institute
cc108Slide2
A Brief Overview
Historical Events
1054: Eastern Schism
1095:
First Crusade Launched
12
th
c.: Monastic Revival
1170: Murder of Becket
1215: Fourth Lateran Council
Mid-1200’s: Scholasticism, Inquisition
1270: Crusades End
1305-1370: Avignon Papacy
1370-1415: Papal Schism
1415: The Council of ConstanceSlide3
A Brief Overview
Important People
Pope Urban II (Council of
Clermont & the People’s Crusade)
St. Bruno
& St. Bernard of
Clairvaux
(Monastic
Revival)
Ss. Francis and St. Dominic
Ss. Thomas Aquinas and St.
Bonaventure
The Rise of Great Medieval Religious Art
The Popes of the Papal Schism
John Wycliffe and Jan HusSlide4
A Brief Overview
Important Theological IssuesThe Rise of New Religious Orders
Scholasticism
Mysticism
Papal Location
The First Attempts at Reform
Wycliff
: Self-interpreting Scripture
Hus: Eucharist under both species
Seeds of ReformSlide5
Setting the Theological Stage
Late Dark Ages (800-1100)
Church’s fall into
Pelagianism
:
Belief in the doing of good, meritorious (Earning) of Grace.
Florus
, Deacon of Lyons: The Grace of God is never merited…
Eucharistic Controversies
Radbertus
: Real change of bread and wine into Body and Blood of Christ
Ratramnus
: Bread and wine become mystical symbols of the Body and Blood of ChristSlide6
Setting the Theological Stage
Theological Debates triggered by Gregorian Reform & East-West Schism
Papal Primacy
Filioque
Church/Diocese run as a Monastic
Community
The first Crusade
Pope Urban IISlide7
The Crusades
The First Crusade – 1096
Gathers in Constantinople in 1097
Nicaea: Western defeat in victory
Antioch: “The General’s Ego”
Taking of Jerusalem
Second Crusade – 1144
First Crusaders go home.
Territories Captured by Christians, retaken by Islam
Fights between eastern and western Christianity don’t help…
Reaches Antioch before being given up.Slide8
The Crusades
The Third Crusade – 1187Philip II, Barbarossa and Richard the Lionhearted
Make it as far as the outskirts of Jerusalem
Barbarossa dies en route
Philip II tires and goes home
Richard is the only one left fighting
Jerusalem not re-captured.
The Last Crusades
Disease and Bad Strategy doom the last Crusades.
Pillaging of Constantinople deepens east-west anger.Slide9
The Crusades
The “Goal” of the Crusades
Spiritual – Pilgrimage & Religious Fervor
Military – Recapture the Holy Lands
Geographic – Re-establish the Holy Roman Empire
Ecclesiological – Eastern and Western Unity
The Problem with the Crusades
Spiritual – Pilgrimage implies a return home
Military – Supply lines and morale
Geographic – unfamiliar territory and climate
Ecclesiological – East often allied with Turks/Islam to preserve their traditions.Slide10
Crusades in Context
Holy Land as a place of pilgrimage…Safety of pilgrims
Respect and honor of holy sites
Military combination of Church and State
Common Reality of the 11
th
to 13
th
centuries
In service to God and CountrySlide11
Monastic Revival
The “New Spirituality”
Return to the “strict” observance of the Rule(s
)
Bruno
Bernard
Battle against Abbot
Suger
of St. Denis Monastery
Augustinian Canons – Religious in the Parishes
Dominic
Preaching against
Albigensianism
(Neo-
Manicheaism
)
The craft of argument
Francis
Poverty, Simplicity and Service
“Rebuild my church.”Slide12
Monastic Revival
St. Bernard vs. Abbot SugerSlide13
Monastic Revival
Francis of Assisi
“And after the Lord gave me brothers, no one showed me what I should do, but the Most High Himself revealed to me that I should live according to the form of the Holy Gospel. And I had this written down simply and in a few words and the Lord Pope confirmed it for me. And those who came to receive life gave to the poor everything which they were capable of possessing and they were content with one tunic, patched inside and out, with a cord and short trousers. And we had no desire for anything more…”Slide14
Monastic Revival
The rise of the combination of Art and Theology…Slide15
Illuminated Manuscripts
Images decorating and informing the text with an understanding of the faith.
Here: Mary as Eve’s Corrective.Slide16Slide17
Scholasticism
The question of the day: Religion OR
Philosophy
Scholasticism’s Response:
Religion
AND
Philosophy
Great Names of Scholasticism
Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas AquinasSlide18
Anselm of
Canterbury1033-1109
“And so, O Lord, since thou
givest
understanding to faith, give me to understand – as far as thou
knowest
it to be good for me – that thou dost exist, and that thou art what we believe thee to be.”
Ontological Argument for the Existence of God.
(Modern Adaptation)
God is that entity
over
which nothing can be greater.
The concept of God exists in human understanding.
God exists in one's mind but not in reality.
The concept of God's existence is understood in one's mind.
If God existed in reality, it would be a greater thing than God's existence in the mind.
There are things which exist in reality greater than in one’s mind.
Since God is that which noting can be greater, God
in
reality,
must exist. Slide19
Five Ways – Proofs for the Existence of God
From Motion: The Unmoved MoverFrom Causality: First Efficient Cause
From Contingency: Regression to Nothing
Creatio
ex nihilo
(Creation from Nothing)
From Being/Order/Perfection
From Intelligence: Beyond Instinct
Thomas Aquinas, OP
1225-1274Slide20
Aquinas
“1.1. Whether another doctrine is necessary besides the philosophical sciences.
I answer: it was necessary for man’s salvation that there should be a doctrine founded on revelation, as well as the philosophical sciences discovered by human reason. It was necessary, in the first place, because man is ordained to God as his end, who surpasses the comprehension of reason…Men must have some foreknowledge of the end to which they ought direct their intentions and actions. It was therefore necessary that some things which transcend human reason should be made known through divine revelation.” – Summa, 1.1Slide21
Aquinas
“85.2. Whether the whole good of human nature can be destroyed by sin…
I answer: we said in the preceding article that the natural good which sin diminishes is the natural inclination to virtue. Now the reason that man inclines to virtue is that he is rational. It is because he is rational that he acts in accordance with his reason, and this is to act virtuously. But a man would not be able to sin without his rational nature. Sin cannot deprive him of it altogether. It follows that his inclination to virtue cannot be entirely destroyed. …”
Summa, 85.2Slide22
Aquinas
Transubstantiation
Eucharistic Controversies Beginning in the 9
th
c.
Historical/Physical Presence
(
Radbertus
&
Ratramnus
, 9
th
c.)
Christ’s Glorified Body and Eucharistic Presence (
Berengarius
, Lanfranc, 11
th
c.)
Relation to Body and Blood in Sacramental Species (12
th
c.)
Aquinas Responds with “Transubstantiation”Slide23
Aquinas
Substance is always Immeasurable
Substance is always retained, accidents (appearance) may change.
In Transubstantiation, Substance changes, accidents remain.
When it ceases to be bread (Accidentally)…
When it ceases to be wine (Accidentally)…
Eucharist is the Reception of Christ,
SubstantiallySlide24
The “Balance” to Scholasticism
Bonaventure
Not only invest in reason…
The heart and head must combine to know Jesus Christ.
This gets taken to extreme…
Rejection of theology
Rise of “experientialism
”
Bonaventure argued that we cannot rely only on reason…
But would not have been hostile to reason.Slide25
Scholasticism = extrinsic
Bonaventure: God’s existence is known from:
within
Without
God’s presence is imprinted on the soul
Observation of the external should not be the sole criteria
Bonaventure, OFMSlide26
Bonaventure
“And thus it is clear how the manifold wisdom of God,
which is clearly revealed in Sacred Scripture, lies hidden in all knowledge and in all nature. It is clear how all divisions of knowledge are handmaids of theology. It is likewise evident how wide is the luminous way and how in everything which is perceived or known, God himself lies hidden within.”
St. Bonaventure – Retracing the Arts to TheologySlide27
Inquisition!!!
Franciscans and Dominicans
Learned and well versed in Church teaching and doctrine…
“Thinking with the mind of the Church”
To an area where heresy was thought to be present.
3 days to 2 weeks ‘Preaching the Inquisition”
Root out the heretics
ReconciliationSlide28
Inquisition!!!
Trial of Heretic followed
If heretic failed to recant
Punishment
Most often penitential or imprisonment
Sometimes death…
Spanish Inquisition is very Different than the Ecclesial Inquisition
The office of the Inquisition existed in most dioceses until Vatican II.Slide29
The Papal Schism
1377 Pope Gregory XI Returns the Papacy to Rome from Avignon, France, initiating the “Papal Schism” in 1378
Increasing National Religious Loyalties = Divisions
French Cardinals want Papacy in France
Pope Urban VI Elected
Keeps Papacy in Rome
French Cardinals Elect another Pope (Clement VII)
Two Popes…Governments begin to take sides
Rome: England and Germany
Avignon: Scotland, Spain and NaplesSlide30
The Papal Schism
Urban’s Dastardly Politics
Both “popes” excommunicate each other
The Council of
Pisa (1409-1410)
Cardinals from Both Sides Meet in Pisa
Elect Alexander V (1409)
John XXIII (1410-1415)
Total Number of “reigning” popes = 3
Emperor Sigismund
Calls the Council
of Constance
Reconciles Pisa and Rome, Avignon
(Benedict XIII)
Refuses Reconciliation and Flees to Spain.
Abdicates in 1429Slide31
The Papal
Schism
Effects of Papal Schism
Early attempts at democracy =
Conciliarism
Dominican
Order – Some in the papal curia believe this to be an answer
Cries for Reform
John Wycliffe – No Confidence in the Clergy
Jan Hus – Simony and Eucharist
Religious Identity
was
the Culture
“In the fifteenth century, indeed, the Church was enjoying its last years as the relatively unchallenged custodian and interpreter of the cosmos.”
-- Ahlstrom, p. 22Slide32
Wycliff and Hus
John HusTreatise on
Simony
Accessibility of all to both Species of Eucharist
Hus at the Council of Constance (1415)
John
Wycliff
Evil of the Priesthood
Everyone can be
holy
Scripture is Self InterpretingSlide33
Adding to the Seeds of Reform
1440 – Guttenberg invents the printing press…Wycliffe’s call to read the bible now becomes possible
Self interpretation of scripture and faith becomes widespread
The lack of trust in the hierarchy combines… and the stage is set…