Cha cha changes

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Cha cha changes!

• Intellectual and Spiritual

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World around 1450

• East Asia
• South Asia
• Middle East/Islamic World
• East Europe
• West Europe
• Latin America

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Change in Europe

• Renaissance
• What is it?
• Yea, you know
• Reformation

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Reformation

• Reform (hahahaduh) the Catholic Church
• Divided the western church Catholic and
  Protestant
• Official beginning? 1517
• Where? University of Wittenburg, Germany
• Why? Humanist application of reason to
  understand problems within the Church

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Why Change the Church?

• Corruption
• Papal concern with Italian politics other
  worldly matters
• Papal obsession with and selling of church
  offices(investiture controversy)
• Parish priests unaware of duties
• Relics
• indulgences

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Erasmus

• Christian humanist
• how to live good lives on a daily basis rather
  than rather than provide a system of beliefs that
  people have to be practice to be saved.
  (pilgrimages, fasts, relics, etc.)
• Want spread Christ, provide education, criticize
  church abuses
• Did not advocate break with church

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Martin Luther

• 11/1/1517 95 Theses on door of University of
  Wittenburg
• Former priest
• Wanted to fix the church, but by 1520, called for
  a more serious break
• 3 solas scriptura, fide, gratis
• Spread quickly

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Other Reformers

• Calvin (Geneva) advocated salvation on grace
  alone, doctrine of predestination
• Zwingli (Zurich) if the Bible doesnt say it,
  dont do it.
• John Knox (Scotland)

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The Politics of Change

• Germany?
• England?
• Within the Catholic Church?

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In England

• Henry VIII
• Former protector and defender of the faith
• Now, separated from the Church
• Why? Women
• Edward VI
• Mary
• Elizabeth I

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Counter Reformation

• 16th C., to counter the abuses highlighted by the
  Reformers
• Three pillars
• The Jesuits
• Council of Trent
• Reform of the Papacy

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Jesuits

• Purpose restore and spread Catholicism to
  Germany, eastern Europe, and rest of the world
• Used education

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Council of Trent

• Reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings
• 1545-1563, 3 sessions
• Both faith and good works
• Seven sacraments
• Clerical celibacy
• Belief in purgatory
• indulgences

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After the Reformation
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What other intellectual changes?

• Science?
• Philosophy?
• Education?

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Sothe effect on the world?

• In Latin America?
• In Europe?

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Some Similarities?

• What are some global processes at work?
• Some other similarities?