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Week Eight Pope Leo X (1513-1521) wanted to finish building Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. To finance the building he allowed the massive selling of indulgences that sparked the reformation of the 16th century. The basilica that became the largest church and pride of Roman Catholicism was a cause of the Protestant Reformation. (If you read this can you please leave me a note?) |
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Stephen Langton (ca. 1155-1228), who was the Archbishop of Canterbury, was a believer in spiritual interpretation of the Bible. Therefore, by his method, in the Book of Ruth; the field is the Bible, Ruth represents students, and the reapers are the teachers. Langton is responsible for dividing the Latin Vulgate Bible into chapters. If you read this can you please leave me a note? |
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In the 1100s a man named Joachim of Fiore made a prediction that the church age would end in 1260. He came to this conclusion because there had been 42 generations from Adam to Jesus. He theorized therefore, that there would be 42 generations before the next age, and with a generation lasting thirty years; the era would end in 1260 A.D. |
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Week Five The abbots of Cluny started the 11th century reformation by reforming the monasteries. When one of their bishops, Bruno of Toul, became the pope Leo IX he took the reformation into the ecclesiastical church. Pope Leo’s main goals were to separate the church from secular control, end the buying and selling of ministerial posts, and clerical celibacy a requirement. He saw these three specific reforms as necessary because the positions of leadership in the church were being bought by wealthy and politically powerful people and once they were in power in the church they could pass their positions down to their children.
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Week Four Our New Testament canon of 27 books was first decided on at the Third Council of Carthage in 397 AD. |
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By the 3rd century the church had instituted a three year “catechumenatc” or period of learning before Christian converts could be baptized. This was deemed necessary because most of the converts were Gentile. The custom was to be baptized early on Easter morning and completely naked, to represent the Resurrection of Jesus. |
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For my church history class I am supposed to share a "church history factoid" with someone every week. If you read this can you please let me know? Feel free to tell me what you think. Week Two In order to separate itself from heretical sects the ancient church began calling itself the “Catholic Church.” Catholic meant “according to the whole,” that is, according to the total witness of all the apostles. |
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For my church history class I am supposed to share a "church history factoid" with someone every week. If you read this can you please let me know? Feel free to tell me what you think. Week 1: The scattered Jews living in the many areas of the Roman Empire before the time of Jesus had forgotten Hebrew and so they translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. The Greek version is called the Septuagint and was the version used by the New Testament authors.
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