HUMA 2195 Lecture Notes - Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Sola Gratia
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Baroque palace: clean linage from power centre. Based on personal dependence: fragmented structure of political authority, social and economic relations. Based on land and service: fundamental inequality of people (3 orders , society of estates , religion as a moral framework. Modern society: concept of a citizen-subject, unified power structure under nation state, social and economic relations based on money, secular. Absolutism society: centralisation of political, social, and religious power at court centers, absolutist power of the monarch. Peter i, katherina i russia: standing army, bureaucracy, taxation, religious justification (divine right of kings, ointment) as protectors of orthodoxy. Martin luther (1483-1546: 1517: posts posting 95 theses against indulgences (christian belief, three principles: sola gratia, sola fide, sola scriptura. Address to the christian nobility of the german nation (1520): role of the nobility in reformation. Prelude on the babylonian captivity of the church (1520): role of sacraments (real presence, but no transubstantiation in the eucharist)