The Final Class (sniff, sniff, single tear)

The Trial of John Huss

This is the outline for the final class before the exam. this will set the stage for Christian History II in the winter semester.

Seeds of Discontent

The Decline of the Papacy & the Growth of Reform

I. Western Europe “Born Again”  

            A. Black Death

            B. Renaissance

            C. Growth of Nationalism

            D. Humanism

II. Decline of the Papacy

           A. Increased Immorality

           B. The “Babylonian Captivity”

                 i. Avignon

                 ii. Rome

                 iii. The Great Schism

          C. Will the real Pope please stand up?

                 i. Ending the “Great Schism”

                 ii. Conciliar Movement

                 iii. The Tail That Wagged the Dog

III. Responses

            A. Mystics & Monastic Reforms

            B. Imitation of Christ

            C. Growing Prominence of Women

                        i.Catharine of Siena

                        ii. Joan of Arc

                        iii. Julian of Norwich

            D. Inquisition

                        i. Factors

                        ii. Effects

IV. Early Reformers

            A. Wyclif

                        i. Lollards

            B. John (or Jan) Hus

                        i. Hussites

            C. Council of Constance

            D. Latin v non-Latin Europe…

Quotes:

“It is one thing to be of the church, another thing to be in the church. Clearly it does not follow that all living persons who are in the church are of the church. On the contrary, we know that tares grow among the wheat…Some are neither in name nor reality in the church—such as reprobate pagans. Others are in the church in name only—such as, for example, reprobate hypocrites. Still others are in the church in reality and, although they appear to be in name outside it, are predestined Christians—such as those who are seen to be condemned by the satraps of the Antichrist before the church.”

 ~Jan Hus, de ecclesia, chapter 3~

“if you do that which I am going to tell you now, you will have reached a consummate perfection and nothing will be wanting in you. It is the attainment of an ardently desired and perseveringly sought disposition of the soul in which you are so closely united with me and your will so conformed to my perfect will that you never wish not only evil, but even the good that I do not wish.”

~Catharine of Siena, Dialogue~

“When we see the host we ought to believe not that itself the body of Christ, but that the body of Christ is sacramentally concealed in it…We Christians are permitted to deny that the bread which we consecrate is identical with the body of Christ, although it is the efficacious sign of it…”

~John Wyclif, The Eucharist, 1:2~