4. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Importance of the human being. Human
being will be the new centre of the
Universe.
• Interest
in
scientific
and
and
technological progress, based in
observation and experimentation.
• Interest in Greek and Latin classical
cultures.
• Use of the languages of each country.
5. The ambassadors by Hans Holbein.
Which objects are associated with the two men?
6.
7. THE SPREAD OF HUMANISM
• Schools and Universities were the
driving force behing humanist thought.
• Schools were supported by patrons, who
offered economic support.
• The invention of the printing press by
Juan Gutemberg (1450) was the most
important contribution to the spread of
humanist ideas.
8. • The first printed
book was the
Bible, printed in
Mainz in 1455.
10. LET’S REMEMBER THE WAY OF THINGKING
• The human being is, after God, in a privileged
place in the Universe.
• Human being are free and they can decide their
own destination.
• God created man in his image and likeness.
Man must aspire to the highest.
11. ¿QUÉ ES EL HUMANISMO?
• FUE UN MOVIMIENTO INTELECTUAL
QUE SE DIFUNDIÓ DESDE ITALIA AL
RESTO DE EUROPA
• LOS PILARES DE ESTE MOVIMIENTO
FUERON LA REVALORIZACIÓN DEL
ANTIGUO MUNDO CLÁSICO Y LA
EXALTACIÓN DEL SER HUMANO.
12. MUNDO MEDIEVAL
TEOCÉNTRICO
MUNDO MODERNO
ANTROPOCÉNTRICO
MENTALIDAD EUROPEA
LAS IDEAS, EL PENSAMIENTO,
EL ARTE Y EL CONOCIMIENTO
SE FOCALIZAN MÁS EN EL SER
HUMANO Y SUS CAPACIDADES
QUE EN DIOS, SIN
ABANDONARLO.
ESTAMENTAL: NOBLEZA,
CLERO, CAMPESINOS.
RELACIONES DE VASALLAJE.
SOCIEDAD
ESTAMENTAL. LA BURGUESÍA
ADQUIERE MAYOR
IMPORTANCIA.
ECONOMÍA CERRADA. BASE
AGRARIA Y FEUDAL:
AUTARQUÍA O AUTOCONSUMO.
ECONOMÍA
ECONOMÍA ABIERTA.
DESARROLLO COMERCIAL Y
PREDOMINIO DEL CAPITALISMO.
REINOS PATRIMONIALES
FUERTE UNIÓN DEL PODER
POLÍTICO Y DEL ECLESIÁSTICO
ORGANIZACIÓN
POLÍTICA
PENSAMIENTO Y CREACIÓN
ARTÍSTICA CENTRADA EN DIOS
Y EN LA RELIGIOSIDAD.
CERRADO, POCOS
DESPLAZAMIENTOS DE
POBLACIÓN
ESPACIO TERRITORIAL
CONFORMACIÓN DE ESTADOS
NACIONALES
ABIERTO, AUMENTO DE LAS
MIGRACIONES Y DE LAS
EXPLORACIONES
GEOGRÁFICAS FUERA DE
EUROPA
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14. SEVERAL EVENTS
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1492 : Columbus discovered América
1503-1507 : La Gioconda, de Da Vinci
1515-1547 : reign of François 1er
1519 : Cortés conquered México – first world tour by
Magallanes and Elcano.
1532 : Pizarro conquered Peru. Pantagruel, by Rabelais
1538 : Mercator prepared the first world map.
1543 : Copérnico did his theory heliocentric of the
Universe.
1547 : Miguel Ángel built the dome of San Pedro in The
Vatican.
15. MAIN HUMANISTS
• ERASMO DE
ROTTERDAM (14661536)
• “ELOGIO DE LA
LOCURA”
• CHRISTIAN
HUMANISM
16. MAIN HUMANISM
• DANTE ALIGHIERI
(1265-1321)
• HE WAS THE FIRST
HUMANIST.
• HIS MAIN WORK IS
TITLED “LA DIVINA
COMEDIA”
26. What was the Reformation?
• The reformation was a split in the
Christian church. It happened because
people were unhappy about the Church.
27. What was the Reformation?
• They
are
called
Protestants because
they protested and
started a new religion.
• It
is
called
the
Reformation because
they set out to reform
the Church.
28. CAUSES OF THE REFORMATION
• Attitudes of the high clergy: luxurious
lifestyles, lack of chastity.
• Lack of preparation of clergy.
• The sale of ecclesiastical charges.
• The sale of indulgences: payments
received for pardoning sins.
• The sale of bulas: documents that allowed
to do things that were prohibited by the
Church.
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30. Why Reform?
• Popes corrupted by power & lose focus of
spiritual leadership
• People wanted to know how to save souls
• Indulgences –a release
of a soul from purgatory
For monetary donation –
a HUGE abuse of
Church power!
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31. The Pope’s Corruption
• The Pope spent too much money on the
arts
• Spent on personal pleasure
• Fought Wars
• Pope Alexander VI fathered several
children
• Priests were uneducated, drank, and
gambled
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33. Abuses in the Church:
a. Ignorant priests who didn’t even
understand the mass
b. Wealthy bishops who had more interest
in money than religion
c. Immoral popes like Alexander VI who
had mistresses and 7 children and Sixtus
who planned to assassinate Lorenzo de
Medici
d. Also,
simony,
nepotism
and
absenteesim
34. Simony
To bribe people to elect you to
high position in the church
Nepotism
To give important jobs in the
church to your relatives
Absenteeism
To neglect your parish or
dioceses because you don’t
live there
35. MARTIN LUTHER
•
•
•
•
•
He was a German Priest
Saw problems in the Church
All he wanted was to be a good Christian
Church believed salvation gained
from faith + good work
– Luther thought faith alone gained salvation
• Oct 31, 1517 – Posted 95 Theses
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36. 95 Thesis
• Attacked the “Pardon Merchants”
• Lead to the Founding of Christian
Churches that did not accept the Pope’s
authority
• Posted on church door in Wittenburg,
Germany
• Thousands of copies distributed
throughout Germany
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39. • Luther’s 95 Theses was a description of
the 95 problems that he had with the
Catholic Church and the way they were
acting.
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40. “I do not accept the authority of popes and councils… my
conscience is captive to the word of God. …Here I stand and I can
not do otherwise. God help me. Amen.”
– Martin Luther April 18th, 1521
41. The Pope & Luther
• The Pope issued a papal bull or bula (a
papal bull is an official document from the
pope)
• He warned Luther to give up his ideas
• Luther burned the bull in public
• The
Pope
responded
by
excommunicating Luther and declaring
him a heretic
42. Spread of Lutheranism
• Some German princes liked Luther’s ideas.
• German states were run by princes but were part of the
Holy Roman Empire
• Emperor Charles V called a meeting of the princes
called the Diet of Worms. Luther refused to give up his
ideas.
• Charles V issued the Edict of Worms which said Luther
was an outlaw.
43. PRINCIPLES OF LUTHERANISM
• Lutheranism was based on three
fundamental principles:
Salvation through faith alone.
Universal priesthood.
The authority and free interpretation of the
Bible.
44. CARACTERÍSTICAS DEL LUTERANISMO
• Las personas se salvaban por la fe, no
por las obras.
• La fuente de verdad eran los libros
sagrados.
• Sólo hay dos sacramentos: el bautismo y
la eucaristía.
• El culto a la Virgen y los santos debe
prohibirse.
• Negaba la autoridad del Papa.
45. DIFFERENCES
Lutheran
• Only faith in Jesus saves
your soul (Justification by
faith alone)
• Religious truth is in the
Bible
• 2 sacraments exist:
baptism and communion
• The local prince rules the
church
• Priests can marry
Catholic
• Faith in God and good
works saves your soul
• Religious truth is in
the Bible and church
teaching
• 7 sacraments exist
• The head of the church is
the Pope in Rome
• Priests must not marry
46. The Differences: Churches
Protestant
• Protestant churches
were plain and simple
• No statues or art
• Priests wore plain
garments
• The service was in
the vernacular
language, not Latin
Catholic
• Catholic Churches
were richly decorated
• Lots of statues and
art work
• Priests wore rich
garments
• They said mass in
Latin
48. King Henry VIII
• Famous King of England.
• He wanted to divorce his first wife
(Catalina de Aragón, daughter of the
Catholic Monarchas), because she
could not produce a male heir, but
Catholic Church would not allow it.
49. King Henry VIII
• He broke away from the Catholic
Church of England with the Pope in
Rome
• And created a new religion: the
Anglicanism, in which he was the
Head.
• He remarried six times
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51. John Calvin
• He was one of the new leaders of
Protestantism
• Being close to Luther, also believed in
the doctrine of justification by faith alone
to
explain
how
humans
achieved
salvation
• Believed
in
predestination,
which
meant that God determined in advance
who would be saved and who would be
damned
52. Calvinism:
• belief in predestination gave firm conviction
they were doing God’s work on Earth
• conviction made them determined to spread
faith to other people
• became dynamic and activist faith
• replaced Lutheranism as most important,
dynamic form of Protestantism.
• Calvinism spread throughout Switzerland and
France.
60. • The spread of Reformation in Europe led
the Catholic
authorities in Rome to
persecute
Protestants and begin a
reform of their own Church.
61. • The reform of the
Catholic
Church,
known as the CounterReformation
began
with the Council of
Trent
(Concilio
de
Trento), between 1545
and 1563, convened
(convocado) by
the
Pope Pablo III (later
presided by Julio III
and Pío IV).
62. • The Council of Trent was a meeting of
the most important members of the
ecclesiastical hierarchy and certain kings.
63. • The Council reaffirmed
dogmas of Catholicism:
the
main
Faith and validity of good deeds (buenas
obras) to get salvation.
The santity of Mass.
The seven sacraments.
The worship of the Virgin Mary and the
saints.
Reaffirmed the authority of the Pope.
The only admitted version of the Bible will be
the Vulgata by San Jerónimo.
65. • The Council also did several reforms in
the Catholic Church:
It prohibited the sale of indulgences.
It created seminaries to prepare and train
priests.
It insisted on celibacy among the clergy.
66. • These reforms were carried out in many
Catholic religious orders, such us the
Carmelites (reformed by Saint Teresa de
Jesús).
• New orders were created, such as la
Compañía de Jesús or los Jesuitas (the
Society of Jesus or the Jesuits), founded
by Saint Ignacio de Loyola.
67.
68. • The Churh encouraged the role of the
Court of the Inquisition, to judge the cases
of heresy (acts against the faith, for
example, to become protestant).