CH502

I. The Origins and Growth of the Papacy

Protestants, Puritans, and Anti-Catholicism

Biblical and Ideological Origins

Various Meanings of the Term Pope

590-604 (bishop of rome, leader of church changing to Pope)
always contested by the East.

1073 Gregory VII admonishes a Bishop for being called Pope (and not being the Roman Arch Bishop.)

1.Pontifex Maximus

Chief Priest of the Roman Pagan polity. Used as early as Turtullian to critique the Bishop of Rome. Eventually taken and used by the Catholic Church.

2.Vicar of St. Peter - Pope mediates, through direct apostolic succession. In the 12th century this becomes vicar of Christ which alludes to the late and slow development of papal doctrines.

The Early Claims of Rome

Peter, Apostolicity, and Succession

The Role of Rome in Settling Doctrinal Disputes

Rome as the Capital of the Empire

St. Augustine and The City of God

II - How the Bishop of Rome Became the Pope

A.The Political Context in the Late Empire

A.The Early Life and Theology of Gregory I

procession of penance that stops the plague in Rome in its tracks.

Italy and the Lombards

Gregory and Monasticism, A.D. 574

A.The Papacy of Gregory the Great, 590-604

Assumption of Civil Authority

a.Patrimony of Peter 13-1800 sq. miles - land that people had left the church in order to have the church look favorably upon them.

b.City Provisions he had been the prefect of Rome, now he is the Bishop. He handled the giving of food to people.

c.Diplomacy with the Lombards - deals with the Lombards themselves. 592 arranged peace with a duke. By 602 (by the end of his pontificate) the king and queen of the Lombards have their Child baptized by Gregory.

d.Practical and Theoretical Assertion of Authority - the Bishop of Rome is responsible for the whole church. All Bishops are to be corrected by the pope. Even the decisions of councils must be approved by the Pope. Began to give order to this unstable world.

Extending Rome's Authority

a.Correspondence with Bishops

b.Missionary Activity- Augustine(the lesser, taking a trip to England to bring it under the order of the Catholic church). A connection between missionary movement and the Pope. Columba, Wilfred, Willbrord 6th century missionaries who looked for official sanction from the Pope.

c.Monasteries

Gregory as Latin Doctor of the Church

a.Gregory Main Works

1.The Pastoral Care - shows the attitude a person should bring to the office. Shows a great social concern for adapting various forms of preaching to various types of people. "the care of souls in the classic tradition."

2.Commentary on Job, or Moralia - a moralization of scripture, uses a allegory in sort of shady ways.

3.Dialogues on the . . . Miracles of the Italian Fathers -

4.Correspondence - massive, some 800 letters.

b.Gregory Conception of Purgatory and the Mass - reflects them, sums them up and furthers them with Papal authority.

from Wikipedia:

Avignon:

In 1309 the city was chosen by Pope Clement V as his residence, and from 9 March 1309 until 13 January 1377 was the seat of the Papacy instead of Rome. This caused a schism in the Catholic Church.

Seven popes resided there:

* Pope Clement V: 1305–1314Operato
* Pope John XXII: 1316–1334
* Pope Benedict XII: 1334–1342
* Pope Clement VI: 1342–1352
* Pope Innocent VI: 1352–1362
* Pope Urban V: 1362–1370
* Pope Gregory XI: 1370–1378

This period from 1309–1377 — the Avignon Papacy
was also called the Babylonian Captivity of exile.

Council of Constance:

The Council of Constance is the 16th ecumenical council recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418. The council ended the Western Schism, by deposing the remaining papal claimants and electing Pope Martin V.

The Council also condemned and executed Jan Hus and ruled on issues of national sovereignty, the rights of pagans, and just war in response to a conflict between the Kingdom of Poland and the Order of the Teutonic Knights. The Council is important for its relationship to the development of the Councilarism and papal supremacy.

First Crusade:

The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to the appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. It was supported heavily by Bernard of Clairvaux. Problematic in that warriors were promised salvation.

Heloise:

Héloïse d’Argenteuil (1101-16 May 1164) was a French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess, best known for her love affair and correspondence with Pierre Abélard.

Thomas Aquinas:

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino; born ca. 1225; died 7 March 1274) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.

Aquinas is held in the Catholic Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood.[1] The works for which he is best-known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. One of the 33 Doctors of the Church

Donation of Pepin:

The "Donation of Pepin" in 756 provided a legal basis for the erection of the Papal States, which extended papal temporal rule beyond the traditional diocese and duchy of Rome.

Peter Abelard: Peter Abelard (Lt: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailard; Fr: Pierre Abélard) (1079 – April 21, 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Héloïse has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century".

Franciscans:

The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic religious orders that follow a body of regulations known as "The rule of St. Francis",[1] or a member of one of these orders. Saint Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco Bernardone; born 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226)[2] was a deacon and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans. A really interesting guy, sort of renegade priest for a bit, but reconciled with the church. Upon which, he began to lead on order of ministers who were ascetic but more missionaries than monks. later in his life he was the first to receive the stigmata after fasting for 40 days.

Dominicans:

The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum), after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic in the early 13th century in France. Membership in the Order includes the friars,[1] the nuns, the sisters, and lay persons affiliated with the order (formerly known as tertiaries). Founded to preach the gospel and to combat heresy, the order is famed for its intellectual tradition, having produced many leading theologians and philosophers. Dominic was a contemporary of Francis, 1200.

Lioba:

710?-782 - was an Anglo-Saxon nun who was part of Boniface's mission to the Germans, and a saint. She was a very powerful abbess, she was later canonized. She was in charge of all of the nuns that worked for Boniface and lead in his place if he was ever away.

Seven Deadly Sins:

The Catholic Church divided sin into two principal categories: "Venial sins", which are relatively minor, and could be forgiven through any Sacramentals or Sacraments of the church, and the more severe "Capital" or Mortal sins. Mortal sins destroyed the life of grace, and created the threat of eternal damnation unless either absolved through the sacrament of Confession, or forgiven through perfect contrition on the part of the penitent.

Innocent III:

was pope from January 8, 1198 until his death. As pope, Innocent III began with a very wide sense of his responsibility and of his authority. The Muslim recapture of Jerusalem in 1187 was to him a divine judgment on the moral lapses of Christian princes. Papal power was based on more than scriptures. They acquired large amounts of land and bishops and clergy were, in theory, agents of papal programs. Pope Innocent III’s increased involvement in Imperial Elections took historically documented form when he called the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 during which time he beckoned around 1200 bishops, abbots and nobles from around Europe to assist in either tweaking current laws or creating new ones to further influence the masses in supporting the Pope as the universal authority of the empire.

Cistercians:

The first Cistercian abbey was founded by Robert of Molesme in 1098, at Cîteaux Abbey near Dijon, France. Two others, Saint Alberic of Citeaux and Saint Stephen Harding, are considered co-founders of the order, and Bernard of Clairvaux is associated with the fast spread of the order during the 12th century. In the first century of its existence, the order had spread throughout France and into England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Eastern Europe.

Seven Holy Orders:

Major orders: Presbyter; Deacon; Subdeacon.
Minor orders: Acolyte; Exorcist; Lector; Doorkeeper

One of the seven sacraments. priests role in society

Gregory VII:

was Pope from April 22, 1073, until his death. One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he played in the Investiture Controversy, his dispute with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor affirming the primacy of the papal authority and the new canon law governing the election of the pope by the college of cardinals. He was at the forefront of both evolutionary developments in the relationship between the Emperor and the papacy during the years before becoming pope. He was beatified by Gregory XIII in 1584, and canonized in 1728 by Benedict XIII as Pope St. Gregory VII.[2] He twice excommunicated Henry IV, who in the end appointed the Antipope Clement III to oppose him in the political power struggles between church and Empire. Hailed as one of the greatest of the Roman pontiffs after his reforms proved successful, Gregory was during his own reign despised by many for his expansive use of papal powers.[3]

Boniface (or Winfrith) of England:

Saint Boniface (Latin: Bonifacius; c. 672 – June 5, 754), the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid or Wynfrith at Crediton in the kingdom of Wessex (now in Devon, England), was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. connected to Lioba. The support of the Frankish mayors of the palace (maior domos) and later the early Pippinid and Carolingian rulers, was essential for Boniface's work. Monasticism went from the Celts to the Anglo-Saxons and thence to the Carolingian kings. Boniface had been under the protection of Charles Martel from 723 on. From the Anglo-Saxons, Boniface joined the papacy and the Carolingian kings and provided education for them. The Christian Frankish leaders desired to defeat their rival power, the non-Christian Saxons, and to incorporate the Saxon lands into their own growing empire. Boniface's destruction of the indigenous Germanic faith and holy sites was, thus, an important part of the Frankish campaign against the Saxons.
In 732, Boniface traveled again to Rome to report, and Pope Gregory II conferred upon him the pallium as archbishop with jurisdiction over Germany. Boniface again set out for what is now Germany, baptized thousands, and dealt with the problems of many other Christians who had fallen out of contact with the regular hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. During his third visit to Rome in 737–38, he was made papal legate for Germany.

Transubstantiation:

The earliest known use of the term "transubstantiation" to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ was by Hildebert de Savardin, Archbishop of Tours (died 1133), in the eleventh century and by the end of the twelfth century the term was in widespread use.[3] In 1215, the Fourth Council of the Lateran spoke of the bread and wine as "transubstantiated" into the body and blood of Christ: "His body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine, the bread and wine having been transubstantiated, by God's power, into his body and blood." implications include abuses of control and of the automatic nature of the grace.

Henry III:

29 October 1017 – 5 October 1056), called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. He was the eldest son of Conrad II of Germany and Gisela of Swabia and his father made him duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI) in 1026, after the death of Duke Henry V. On Easter Day 1028, his father having been crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Henry was elected and crowned King of Germany in the cathedral of Aachen by Pilgrim, Archbishop of Cologne. After the death of Herman IV, Duke of Swabia in 1038, his father gave him that duchy (as Henry I) as well as the kingdom of Burgundy, which Conrad had inherited in 1033. Upon the death of his father on June 4, 1039, he became sole ruler of the kingdom and was crowned emperor by Pope Clement II in Rome (1046).

part of a revival in the church as he was both earnestly Christian (wanted to see the church grow and improve the lives of Christians) and he was successful at limiting attacks from barbarians.

Lay Brothers (conversi):

by the beginning of the 11th century, the time devoted to study had greatly increased, thus a larger proportion of the monks were in Holy Orders, even though great numbers of illiterate persons had embraced the religious life. At the same time, it was found necessary to regulate the position of the famuli, the hired servants of the monastery, and to include some of these in the monastic family. So in Italy the lay brothers were instituted;

Cathari:

was a name given to a Christian religious sect with dualistic and gnostic elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France and other parts of Europe in the 11th century and flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries. Catharism had its roots in the Paulician movement in Armenia and the Bogomils of Bulgaria with whom the Paulicians merged.

The Catholic Church regarded the sect as dangerously heretical. Faced with the rapid spread of the movement across the Languedoc region the Church first sought peaceful attempts at conversion, undertaken by Dominicans. These were not very successful, and after the murder on 15 January 1208 of the papal legate Pierre de Castelnau by a knight in the employ of Count Raymond of Toulouse, the Church called for a crusade, which the French carried out and was known as the Albigensian Crusade. The Papal Legate had involved himself in a dispute between the rivals Count of Baux and Count Raymond of Toulouse. It is possible that his assassination had little to do with the Cathar heresy. The anti-Cathar Albigensian Crusade, and the inquisition which followed it, entirely eradicated the Cathars. The Albigensian Crusade was undertaken by the French for mainly political purposes as it enabled France to conquer the until then independent principalities, such as Toulouse, of Southern France. The excuse of eradicating Cathars led to a massive genocide in the South of France. The purpose of the genocide may well have been to remove the population resource from which the hitherto independent rulers of the South had drawn their armies and resources.

Poor Clares:

Margery Kempe:

(c. 1373 – after 1438) is known for writing The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. This book chronicles, to some extent, her extensive pilgrimages to various holy sites in Europe and Asia.Kempe and her "Book" are also significant because they record the tension in late medieval England between institutional orthodoxy and increasingly public modes of religious dissent, especially those of the Lollards. Throughout her spiritual career, Kempe's adherence to the teachings of the institutional Church is challenged by both church and civil authorities, most notedly the Bishop of Lincoln and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Arundel, who acted rigorously against heresy, enacting laws that forbade allowing women to preach, for example.

Seven Sacraments:

Donation of Constantine:

Treasury of Merit:

Julian of Norwich:

Fourth Lateran:

Council in 1215 which beckoned around 1200 bishops, abbots and nobles from around Europe to assist in either tweaking current laws or creating new ones to further influence the masses in supporting the Pope as the universal authority of the empire. Included in defining fundamental doctrines, the council: reviewed the nature of the Eucharist (the ordered annual confession of sins); detailed procedures for the election of bishops; mandated a strict lifestyle for clergy including forbidding them to participate in judicial procedures in which “sinners” had to undergo often painful physical consequences to either atone for their sins or prove themselves innocent of often frivolous charges.

Four Books of Sentences:

Hrotsvit:

Penance:

Cyril and Methodius:

Peter Lombard:

Cluny:

The town grew up around the Benedictine Cluny Abbey, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in A.D. 910. The height of Cluniac influence was from the second half of the 10th century through the early 12th. The Cluniac (Clunian) Reform was a series of changes within medieval monasticism, focused on restoring the traditional monastic life, encouraging art, and caring for the poor. The movement is named for the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy, where it started within the Benedictine order.

Synod of Whitby:

Charles the Great:

St. Benedict:

Ex Opere Operato:

Celtic Penitentials:

John Wycliffe:

Cassiodorus:

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