Transcript The Reformation - SLOGESKY TEAM 9B

The Reformation
What Does it Mean to Reform an
Institution and What in Europe
Needs Reforming?
Type 1
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Think back on the values and ideas of
the Renaissance.
1.
Which of those values might have caused
Europeans to REFORM (or change) society
in the 1500s?
Or
1.
What part of European society might have
needed REFORM (or change) in the 1500s?
Why did Europeans in the 1500s-1600s
want to reform the Catholic Church?
1.
2.
1.
The Church was corrupt.
There was
political
conflict
between
the pope and
European
Kings.
Europeans were
influenced by
the Humanist
beliefs of the
Renaissance.
a) Greed
b) Indulgences
c) Simony
d) Taxation
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#1 Corruption in the
Catholic Church: a) Greed
The Catholic Church
has certain ideas
about excess.
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What does excess
mean?
Do you think the
Church approved of
excess?
Pope Clermont V
#1 Corruption in the
Catholic Church: a) Greed
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Bishops and clergy
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Their lifestyles imitated those of royalty
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Wanted the same lifestyle
that lay people enjoyed
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Sought wealth and luxury items
Nuns and monks married (this
violated the vow of
chastity)
Lost respect as selfless
protectors of the Church
a) Greed
b) Indulgences
c) Simony
d) Taxation
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Corruption in the
Catholic Church: b) Indulgences
The church as a religious
& economic institution
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Needs $ to finance projects
What is one way the Church
makes money?
_____________________
 Charges Christians for the [saving of their
soul] – or salvation – what they are
“purchasing/buying” is called an indulgence.
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What is controversial about this
practice?
a) Greed
b) Indulgences
c) Simony
d) Taxation
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#1 Corruption in the
Catholic Church: c) Simony
Positions in the Church
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Sought after (wanted)
The Church realized that
it could make money off
peoples’ desire to work in
the Church
 The offices of bishops
were sold at excessive
prices
 This practice is
called simony
#1 Corruption in the
Catholic Church: c) Simony
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Why is simony a problem?
 Some people were able to obtain
multiple offices (or become bishops
in one church as well as in
another)
 Why is this a problem?
 Why else might simony have been
considered a problem?
a) Greed
b) Indulgences
c) Simony
d) Taxation
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#1 Corruption in the
Catholic Church: d) Taxation
Like during the Middle Ages, all
Renaissance Christians were
required to pay taxes to not only
their king but to the Church (in
Rome).
 Europeans resented the Church for
requiring taxes from them.
Word Wall
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Your Task: look at your Notes and (1
PERSON AT A TIME, volunteer to come
up to the SMARTBoard and write a new
vocab word from today’s lecture.
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Definition? Why is it important?