Terms and Concepts Theology Chapter 4

What were the dark ages?

a vision of a Christian government devoted to the enforcement of Christian values

government system: superior or lord granted land to a vassal in return for military services

spared women, clergy, children, and peasants from attack by warring feudal lords

Interdict

new form of religious life based on simple values; "begging" orders - Francis of Assisi is ex.

Church ppl w/ power or influence of favoring relatives especially by giving them jobs

the theological and philosophical system developed by major Catholic thinkers(Thomas Aquinas)

papal representatives employed the Inquisition to judge the guilt of suspected heretics-greg IX

“and from the sun.”part of nicene creed:forms a difference between the East and West churches

Unam Sanctam

outlawed fighting from wednesday evening to Monday morning as well as all religious holidays

practice where secular rulers chose bishops for their territories; pope then doesnt have right

the buying and selling of spiritual things, for example, Christianity

the teaching that bread and wine is changed to the Body and Blood of Christ at concecration