HIST 1010 Lecture 4: 4. The Reformation
18 Jan 2017
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Traditional worldview at the tipping point circa 1500. Efforts to reform church and christian practice to 1517. A compulsory society obligations assumed at birth. Clergy operated spiritual government: sacrament rituals which connect with supernatural power, administered by clergy, 7 in total - baptism, marriage, extreme unction/anointing of the sick, For 500 years, clergy directed the laity in sacramental cycle. The four horsemen of the apocalypse: plague, famine, war, strife. In face of widespread dissatisfaction, many called for reform of the church: popes and councils addressed institutional failings, problems with the church: Simony the selling of spiritual benefit. Others promoted mystical (cid:498)imitation of christ(cid:499) a more personal piety and: don"t have to go to church, just follow christ"s actions, denounced the church hierarchy, demanded the laity receive both bread and wine at communion (laity. Humanists encouraged reform; focused attention on individual christian individual approach, often rejecting hierarchy.
