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Church Reforms

Church Reforms. The color is Green. The Church in Crisis. Between 500 and 1000 church were suffering. Reforms. Reforms began quietly in 910 with the founding of a Benedictine monastery at Cluny in France . One way that the church adapted was by building MONASTERIES

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Church Reforms

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  1. Church Reforms The color is Green

  2. The Church in Crisis • Between 500 and 1000 church were suffering

  3. Reforms • Reforms began quietly in 910 with the founding of a Benedictine monasteryat Cluny in France. • One way that the church adapted was bybuilding MONASTERIES • Monasteries were communities in which Christians gave up their private possessions to pursue lives in prayer.

  4. Spiritual Revival • New age of religious feeling was born • Called the Age of Faith

  5. More Changes • Popes prompted reforms • Enforced laws against the marriage of priests • Enforced laws against the selling of church offices.

  6. Church Reorganization • New Church Structureadvised by the Curia – a group created to advise the pope. • Made canon law (church law) • Extended the power of the pope • Church collected taxes called tithes • Early 1200’s, success in their reforms • New church group arose • Friars – group that moved from place to place spreading the ideas of the church • Women became nunsand joined in the spiritual revival

  7. Monks Friar

  8. Cathedrals • Many towns in Europe built magnificent cathedrals • These huge churchesused a new style of architecture called gothic

  9. Review • Write the question down • Answer the question by using your notes • How did the church in Medieval Europe pull itself out of suffering? • What are monasteries? • Did women play a role in the church’s spiritual revival? • What were built in many European towns that represented the New Age of Faith?

  10. Video: Religion in medieval times.

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