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Christian Humanism
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100

Columbus departs Spain and reaches the Americas

1492

100

Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press

1439 –

100

True or False – Erasmus rejected Luther’s doctrine of “on faith alone”

Yes, he deeply respected traditional faith, piety and grace

100

How did the creation of the printing press affect the Catholic Church?

With an increase in literacy, the more opportunities to own personal religious texts and growth of individual reading, the printing press ultimately undermined the Catholic Church and disrupted the European religious culture by spreading religious knowledge and shifting the power to the people.

100

Peasant Revolt

1525 –

200

Regular slave trade established in

1494

200

First bible printed on G.P.P.

1455 –

200

Who is known as the prince of Christian Humanism?

Erasmus

200

True or False , you confess your sins to God alone in Catholicism

False, confess to a priest 

200

Act of Supremacy


1534 – 

300

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

300

Thomas More writes Utopia

1516 –

300

What did Erasmus emphasis in order to achieve salvation?

Emphasis on charity and good works, not ceremony

300

The bread and wine converts to the literal flesh and body of Christ 

Transubstantiation 

300

 Affair of the Placards

1534 –

400

Who is America named after?

Amerigo Vespucci (1499-1502), Italian, visits American Continent under Portuguese service.

400

Erasmus publishes Latin translation of the New Testament in Greek

1516 –

400

Christian humanism coupled _______ and _______

Classical learning and Christian piety

400

What was Martin Luther's main objection to Catholic church?

The Sale of indulgences 

400

 Council of Trent meets

1545-1563 –

500

It was said regarding this new form of _________ , that "One cannot yet see any good effect resulting from so much butchery; for this is not the way in which commerce can flourish and the preaching of the gospel progress"

Slavery 

500

 Luther publishes 95 Theses

1517 –

500

What external forms of religion did Erasmus de-emphasize?

      Sacraments, pilgrimages, veneration of saints, fasting

500

Name the hierarchy of the catholic church 

Pope, Cardinal , Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Monks/ Nuns, Deacons, the ppl  

500

Who refounded the Anabaptists? What was the religion “re-named?”

Menno Simons, Mennonites