Church History Unit 3 Vocab

Conciliar Movement

A reform movement that emerged in the Church in the fourteenth century that held that final authority in spiritual matters rested with church councils, not with the Pope. conciliarism emerged in response to the Avignon Papacy.

Divine Office

Also known as the Liturgy of the Hours, the official public, daily prayer of the Catholic Church. The Divine Office provides standard prayers, Scripture readings, and reflections at regular hours throughout the day

Friars

members of religious orders of men who serve the church through teaching or preaching

Great Western Schism

A split within the church that lasted from 1378 to 1417, when there were two or three claimants to the papacy at once. Also called the Papal Schism

Indulgence

The means by which the church takes away the punishment that a person would receive in Purgatory

Mendicants

Members of religious orders that rely on charity for support

Mystic

A person who regularly has an intense experience of the presence and power of God, resulting in a deep sense of union with him

Scholasticism

This method of thinking, teaching, and writing devised in, and characteristic of, the medieval universities of Europe from about 1100 to 1500. Although concerned with all of scientific learning, scholasticism is most closely identified with knowledge about God

deuterocanonical

Books of the Old Testament that do not appear in the Hebrew Scripture but are accepted by the Church as part of the canon of Scripture

Humanism

a cultural and intellectual movement that emphasized classical learning, such as Latin and Greek literary and historical texts, and that focused on human achievements rather than on the divine

Predestination

the belief that each person’s fate after death is predetermined by God and that no one can do anything to change it

Grace

the free and undeserved gift of God’s loving and active presence in our lives, empowering us to respond to his call and to live as his adopted sons and daughters. Grace restores our loving communion with the Holy Trinity, lost through sin