Modern History of the Church Part I

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Modern History of the Church Part I

• Historical Events Leading Up to
• Vatican II

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Historical Events in the Church 325 to 1564

• First Ecumenical Council of Nicea 325
• Council of Constantinople 381 382
• Council of Trent 1545 - 1564

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16th to Early 20th Centuries

• Political Philosophy of
• Thomas Hobbes 1588 1679
• Immanuel Kant 1724 1804
• Jeremy Bentham 1784- 1832
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• 1712 - 1778

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16th to Early 20th Centuries Continued

• Georg Frederick Hegel
• 1770 1831
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1788 1860
• John Stuart Mills 1806 - 1873
• Karl Marx 1818 - 1883

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16th to Early 20th Centuries Continued

• Frederick Engles
• 1820 1889
• Frederick Nietzsche
• 1844 1900
• Marx Engles - Lenin

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Historical Events in the Church 1869

• Vatican Council I 1869
• Pope Leo XIII and
• Rerum Norvarum

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19th to Mid- 20th Centuries

• Berlin Conference 1869
• First World War 1914 - 1918
• Rise of Communism and Nazism
• Depression (Crash of Wall Street) 1920s 1930s

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19th to Mid- 20th Centuries

• Rearmament
• Second World War
• Holocaust
• Yalta Conference 1945
• Use of Atomic Bomb 1945

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19th to Mid- 20th Centuries

• United Nations Formed 1946
• Marshall Plan 1947
• Independence
• India, Africa etc.
• China

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Historical Events in the Church 1962 - 1965

• Vatican Council II
• 1962 - 1965

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Vatican Council II

• Conciliar Documents
• Seven Principles of
• Catholic Social Teaching
• Missio ad Gentes

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Seven Principles of Catholic Social Teaching

• 1. Life and Dignity of the
• Human Person
• 2. Call to Family, Community,
• and Participation
• 3. Rights and Responsibilities
• 4. Option for the Poor
• and Vulnerable

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Seven Principles of Catholic Social Teaching

• 5. The Dignity of Work and the Rights of
  Workers
• 6. Solidarity
• 7. Care for Gods Creation