History of Our Faith – Seventeenth Century

The 17th century was a continuation of the Catholic Reformation. There were disagreements with both the Catholic and Protestant nation states and the church except in Italy. 

History of Our Faith – Sixteenth Century

We all know this as the century of the Protestant Reformation.

History of Our Faith – Fifteenth Century

After Turks captured Constantinople, the church broke into several pieces.

Great Schism continues but ends under Council of Constance’s conciliarism.

History of Our Faith – Fourteenth Century

The 14th and 15th centuries were a transition period to the modern.  It was marked by major difficulties:

 

 

History of Our Faith – Thirteenth Century

This has been called the greatest of centuries – universities’ academic freedom was used for advancement of Christian knowledge and the arts flourished:  architecture (stone books of medieval art), artists, sculptors, musicians, poets, mystery plays – the precursors of drama today, Latin hymns.  The Magna Carta in England and democracy in German city-states heralded respect for the individual.  There was an increased awareness of the world beyond Europe.

History of Our Faith – Twelfth Century

There were Crusades – a story I won’t tell – but one which needs to be clarified.

 In Europe there was a 12th century Renaissance with “a rebirth of perennial Catholic ideals and a creative lifting of Catholic Europe’s culture.”

History of Our Faith – Eleventh Century

Issues connected with the papacy again involved church-state relations with the state too often dominating.  Pope Nicholas II decreed that the pope would be chosen by seven bishops from the Rome area with the title of “cardinal”.