Religion 2016 half yearly

Religion 2016 half yearly

1. Components of religion: their are 7 conponments

   • it includes belief in deitals and spirits, gods, and goddesses
   • the sacrificed stories and writings explains main beliefs and practics
   • sacride rituals, prayers and festivals involving gestures, objects, words and music
   • Sacred space: to worship, eg temples, shrines, household alters and burial places.
   • Sacred signs representing religious stories, objects and ideas
   • Special people: priests, re teachers, healers etc
   • Ancient religions also include regulated times for planting and harvesting crops.

2. Ancient religions

   • Mesopotamia
     • worchiped as protectors of the city
     • Often erratic in their behaviours, harming some people whie favoring others
     • feared and placated in rituals: seasonal rituals relating to the life-giving floods and the planting and harverting
   • Egypt
     • stories of osiris and isis: which explain the birth, death and re-birth, in humans
     • osiris was the rebirth of crops, and for human after death. This god protected the dead
     • Isis was motherhood: she reproduced living creatures and she had healing powers. She protected family
   • Myths: stories told of the gods, what they were and what they did
   • Legends: Tells stories of great greek heroes and heroines.
   • Greek
     • Had heaps of myths and ledgends
     • Theirs gods and goddesses, who controlled the human lifes
   • Aboriginal
     • Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal) Culture and Beliefs

3. The Church in History

   • The Black death
     • Timeline
       • 1320s - The black plague erupted in Gobi desert
         • 1340s - The plague spread towards the west
           • 1347 - Plague reached Constantinople, then egypt and Cairo
             • 1348 - Reached Paris, England and Germany
     • The diseases would follow cities and ships
     • Some syptoms were fever, limbs, vomiting, blood and swelling of the lymph nodes
       • Flagellants - were people that would punish themselves for what ever unpleased there god. They did this for walking through the streets wipping themselves.
   • Martin Luther
     • When Pope Leo X and the Archbishop of Mainz began to use the sale of indulgences to pay for the constuction of St Peters Basilica in Rome, Luther objected
     • It was the preaching that made Luther take the step he had been thinking about for more than a year
   • Causes of the Reformation
     • Abuses occurring in the catholic church
       • Exemptions from the civil law
       • Corrupt and uneducated clergy
     • New Spirituality for the protestant
     • Money - Taxation to support the pope
     • Power of Kings
     • Corrupt popes
     • New learnings: the bible was translated into greek, making it easyer for the public to read
   • The reformation and catholic reform timeline
     • 1517 - luther handed out his 95 theses. this was seen as an attack on the church
       • 1518 - When pope luther refused to take back his attack. The pope leo X said that indulgences isnt allowed and condemning luthers ideas
         • 1520 - Pope gave him 60 days to recant or face excommunication. Luther send an apology but continued informing the public. Luther had support of the german nobility.
           • 1521 - luther was excommunicated and summoned to the city of worms. He was later captured by his supporters and taken into saftey.
             • 1522 - 2 year he preached in central germany
               • 1524 - he was banished by the chruch and the emperor
                 • 1530 - Many german princes and cities signed a document called the Augsburg, for them to chose thir religion between Lutheranism or Catholicism
                   • 1546 - luther died
                     • 1555 - each german prince chose thier religion and for their teritiorie.
   • Result of Luther
     • Zwingi a powerful priest became a luthers
     • John Knowchanges the chruch of scotland to Presbyterian
     • In england king henry VIII also split from rome
   • What Martin Luther Really saying
     • The heart of the Gospel was, for Luther, the belief that salvation is a gift of god, and that it cannot be earned by anything a person may do.
   • King henry VIII assignmant
   • The countor reformation
     • the council forbade many corrupt practices among priests, bishpos and cardinates
     • You cant be a pope without being a ordained for six months
     • the council forbade bishops taxing money from parishes
     • All abuses of indlgences as a means to raise money were forbiden
     • The council of trend laid down the laws about mass and made marriages to be performed in front of a priest and two witnesses.
   • The first Vatican Council \ terms
     • between 1869-1870
     • Successor of St Peter: Comes after and in a direct line from St Peter as Head of the church
     • Infallible: free from error
     • Teachinges definitivly: teachings finally and in his authority as Pope.
     • Magisterium: the teaching authority of the pope and bishops together of the pope alone.
     • Obedience of faith; the obedience given by all faithful
   • The council of Trend
     • they reformed the sacraments and laid down laws about the mass and made marraiges to be proformed in front of a priest and two witnesses
       • Also they changed the training of priests and made them more accountable for preaching and teaching