Lesson 26-The Late Middle Ages

1. Lesson 26-The Late Middle Ages The Third Five Hundred Years

2. Church History Ca. 30AD 590 AD 1517 AD Ancient Church History Medieval Church History Modern Church History Reformation & Counter Reformation Apostolic Church The First Medieval Pope Apostolic Fathers The Rise of the Holy Roman Empire Rationalism, Revivalism, & Denominationalism The Crusades Church Councils Revivalism, Missions, & Modernism Golden Age of Church Fathers The Papacy in Decline The Pre-Reformers ?

3. 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 • To England, Ireland and Scotland • To the Balkans and Russia Great Political Leader - Charlemagne

4. Threat from the south

5. 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 Africa North 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

6. 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 Dependent on Government Engaged in slave trade Ethiopia

7. Christianity in Asia China Persia

8. Eastern Orthodoxy 988 Conversion Of Russia 1453 Fall of Constantinople Rise of Ottoman Empire

9. 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

10. Great Period of Piety Monastic orders revived and created Personal piety increased and was subverted by error • Rise of the Universities • Building of Cathedrals

11. 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

12. What about the message of the gospel? • Became mixed and muddled in 4th; recovered by Augustine • In Medieval Days – convulsion and confusion hindered the Church. Today peace and prosperity hinders the Church. How is success achieved in either case? • It’s purity was lost again sacramentalism Even though the messengers got the emphasis in the wrong place, they were preaching the Bible

13. 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 ?