Church History Ch 5 Test Review Game

While secular people/groups were patrons of the arts during the Renaissance, the Church was largely uninterested in

The so-called New Laws prohibited "encomiendas" in the Spanish colonies

Much of the early missionary success on the continent of Africa was later undermined by:

Christianity arrived in _____ very early, perhaps as early as the first and second centuries.

Sometimes the missionaries:

The selling of indulgences was an abuse by certain churchmen, not an action of the Church herself.

The colonizers, including some of the missionaries, often thought of the native populations as

Much of the early missionary success on the continent of Africa was later undermined by:

Christianity arrived in _____ very early, perhaps as early as the first and second centuries.

Historians commonly recognize that the Renaissance was a gradual shift within European society + had no beginning or end

It's inaccurate to say that the Renaissance stressed the human more than the divine

The success of evangelization in the Age of Exploration varied depending on

The cathedrals of the Renaissance served as:

Anthropocentrism is a worldview that places nature at the center of the universe

The ____ missionaries were the first to arrive in what would become the US (now California, Southwest, Southeast)

A cultural and intellectual movement in the Renaissance that emphasized the rediscovery of ancient Greece and Rome life

During the Renaissance the Church cautioned against:

The European based culture framed upon the principles of Ancient Greek and Roman society, history, philosophy, etc

Indulgence is a partial or total wiping away of punishment due for sins that have been forgiven

"Spanish for “conquerors”; those explor-ers who left Spain to conquer new faraway territories

The method by which religious missionaries adjust their evangelization methods to match the cultural elements of a group

The first missionary activity began in the age of exploration.

The Bible was widely distributed during the last half of the fifteenth century due to

The process by which a nation establishes a prominent presence by exerting an element of power in areas beyond borders

Sometimes the missionaries:

Perhaps the most prominent of all the works of the Renaissance was

There are dark periods in the Church's history when God's grace fails to transform people.

A cultural rebirth begun in the late Middle Ages that rediscovered the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece, and Egypt

Partly due to the plague, the Renaissance was characterized by a strong preoccupation with spiritual concerns like death

Western Church is known as the Roman Catholic Church.

New World was a term applied to the Americas, as compared to the “Old World” of Europe

The leaders of seafaring nations in Europe primarily viewed colonization as:

During the Renaissance the Bible was more widely distributed