RLG100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Seven Deadly Sins, Venial Sin, Mortal Sin
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Practical benefit from the freedom of the responsibilities of parenthood and marriage. Spiritual benefit from of surmounting worldly desires. Ecclesiastical appointments could be bought and sold: princes could confer their own offices of abbots and bishops on their own nominees and even the bishopric. Theory of the 2 swords means that the pope is given the sword of spiritual power and temporal power. Series of military campaigns spanning 2 centuries: latin christians from western europe attempted to recover jerusalem from muslim control. Crusade brought out the best and the worst in people; valor and devotion and violence and greed. Saints: collectively came be regarded as a kind of a heavenly senate or honor society. Christian saint mary was the mother of jesus. Immaculate conception: according to which she herself was born without the stain of original sin. Model of purity and and incorruptibility of devotion and fidelity. Belief in evil spirits and angels is universal.
