lesson 26-the late middle ages the third five hundred years
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Lesson 26-The Late Middle Ages
The Third Five Hundred Years
Apostolic Church
Apostolic Fathers
Church Councils
Church History
Ca. 30AD 590 AD 1517 AD
Golden Age of Church Fathers
Reformation & Counter Reformation
Rationalism, Revivalism, & Denominationalism
Revivalism, Missions, & Modernism
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Ancient Church History Medieval Church History Modern Church History
The Pre-Reformers
The First Medieval Pope
The Rise of the Holy Roman Empire
The Crusades
The Papacy in Decline
The Early Middle Ages: The Second Five Hundred Years
Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
The place of Christianity
Great Popes: Leo the Great – 5th
Gregory the Great – 6th
Great spread of Christianity
1. To England, Ireland and Scotland
2. To the Balkans and Russia
Great Political Leader - Charlemagne
Threat from the south
Threat from the south
Growth and Collapse of Christianity in the Orient
The Church in the East
Nestorian in Persia
Monophysite Jacobites in Syria
Chalcedonian Orthodox in Constantinople
The Church in China
The Church in India
Survival in AfricaNorth Africa lost to Islam
Egypt became a country of dual religions: Muslim & Coptic
Nubian Christianity continued to grow
Ethiopian Christianity was the most vital expression of African Christianity
Late Middle Ages: The Third Five Hundred Years
Were these the Dark Ages?
“The end did not come. The first millennium of Christianity closed, and the second opened with no greater terrors than ordinary robberies, murders, rapes, burnings, wars, massacres, and plagues. So people sighed a sigh of relief, and life went on as usual.” Charles Williams Descent of the Dove
Christianity in Africa: Survival Egypt Nubia
Ethiopia
Dependent on Government Engaged in slave trade
Christianity in Asia
China
Persia
Eastern Orthodoxy
988 Conversion
Of Russia
1453 Fall of
Constantinople
Rise of Ottoman
Empire
Roman Catholicism
Christendom
•The Diversity of Roman Catholicism
•The Struggle with Islam
•Lay Investiture Who had ultimate authority?
•Great Achievements
GOLF
THEOLOGY Summa Thomas Aquinas
•Great Period of Piety
Monastic orders revived and created
Personal piety increased and was subverted by error
•Rise of the Universities
•Building of Cathedrals
•Great period for literature
Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Dante Divine Comedy
•Period of Reform Papal- Gregory
Lateran Council 1215
•Development of Orders
•Time of heresy Cathari or Cathars
Waldensians
Wycliffe and the Lollards
Savonarola in Florence
What about the message of the gospel?
•Became mixed and muddled in 4th; recovered by Augustine
•It’s purity was lost again
sacramentalism
Even though the messengers got the emphasis in the wrong place, they were preaching the Bible
• In Medieval Days – convulsion and confusion hindered the Church. Today peace and prosperity hinders the Church. How is success achieved in either case?
April 6 On Loving God: Medieval Monasticism
April 13 God Wills It: Crusades or Missions?
April 20 Universities and Scholasticism: Thomas Aquinas
April 27 Doing what lies in you: The Sacramental System
May 4 Waldensians
May 11 ?