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What was the progression of the church’s response to dissention?

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1- Preaching
2- Crusade -Innocent III against Cathars 1209-29
3- Inquisition -1199 innocents decretal - establishes the legal basis for the execution of heretics *Became acceptable to use force as opposed to preaching to illicit change

2
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During the 13th century a new spirituality based on conformity to the earthly ministry of Jesus arose. What ‘two concepts… came to be regarded as the essence of Christianity’?

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Poverty and Preaching -movements responded to the worldliness of the clergy and the restriction imposed on the laity by the ecclesial hierarchy

3
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What are the three movements, in addition to the Mendicants, that the ‘ideal of the “apostolic life”’ gave rise to?

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  • Humiliati: purer moral life, not allowed to preach publicly and only in their communities
  • Flagellants
  • Waldensians
4
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What did the Flagellants do to themselves and why?

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Beat themselves until blood flowed in penitence

5
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In whom was the penitential ideal exemplified and what were her extreme mortifications?

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Margaret of Cortona

6
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What were the three principal points that Peter Waldo/Valdes’s movement came to emphasize?

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voluntary poverty, vernacular access to the Bible, public preaching

7
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What teaching did the Cathars continue that ‘reached back to the Manichaeans’?

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Dualism
Cathars/Albigensians
Cathari = “pure ones,” from Albi concerned with the worldliness of the church, led austere lives approved by many
Dualism: good v. evil = spirit vs. matter

8
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What did the Cathars condemn and reject as a result of their dualism?

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Material things, marriage, etc. Reject hell, purgatory, infant baptism, put down by church in 20 Year War

9
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What was the historical significance (with regard to the inquisition) of the decretal issued by Innocent III in 1199?

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-establishes the legal basis for execution of heretics

10
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‘The religious experiences of many women, both those inside and those outside the church, shared certain features’ – what were they?

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Shared religious experiences: asceticism, paranormal phenomena, visionary experiences
Important Women: Hadewijch from Flanders, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Margaret of Porette, Gertrude the Great; writing some of the earliest theological statements written in the vernacular

11
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What was ‘the intermediate style of religious life’ formed by the Beguines?

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Women - celibacy (but not life long commitment), retained use of property, some lived in community and some in nomadic lifestyle

12
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What did Joachim of Fiore’s ‘Trinitarian periodization of history’ fuel?

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-eschatological expectations

13
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What idea emerged during the 12th to 14th centuries ‘in circles influenced by Joachim, Olivi, and the Spiritual Franciscans’?

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  • the church had fallen into corruption and the was a need to restore apostolic practice
14
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How did events of Kublai Khan’s life signal ‘the beginning of the collapse of the Church of the East’?

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Kublai Khan: marked the decline of the church in the east, by 14th century all had converted to Islam