Some of these are unbiblical traditions, others are false doctrines. What you should do is try to find a church which is strongly committed to biblical Christianity and is willing to put biblical principles into practice.
Buy Now: Book. Buy Now: DVD. Buy Now: Book Kindle ePub. Buy Now: MP3. Catholicsm is a tradition which has been passed for a long time. Where was its origin and the approximatly when did it begin? When did Christianity begin? Is it true that the Roman Catholic Church was the original true church?
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Share Flipboard Email. Mary Fairchild. Christianity Expert. Mary Fairchild is a full-time Christian minister, writer, and editor of two Christian anthologies, including "Stories of Cavalry. Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter. Cite this Article Format. Fairchild, Mary. The Great Schism of and the Split of Christianity. Is the Date of Easter Related to Passover? John Chrysostom, the Golden-Tongued Preacher. Development of Christian Denominations. These monks would also work in the gardens and on the land.
They might also spend time in the Cloister, a covered colonnade around a courtyard, where they would pray or read. Some monasteries held a scriptorium where monks would write or copy books.
When the monks wrote, they used very neat handwriting and would draw illustrations in the books. As a part of their unique writing style, they decorated the first letter of each paragraph. The monasteries were the central storehouses and producers of knowledge. The next wave of monastic reform after the Benedictines came with the Cistercian movement. The keynote of Cistercian life was a return to a literal observance of the Benedictine Rule, rejecting the developments of the Benedictines.
The most striking feature in the reform was the return to manual labour, and especially to field work. Inspired by Bernard of Clairvaux, the primary builder of the Cistercians, the Cistercians became the main force of technological diffusion in medieval Europe. By the end of the 12th century the Cistercian houses numbered , and at its height in the 15th century the order claimed to have close to houses.
Most of these were built in wilderness areas, and played a major part in bringing such isolated parts of Europe into economic cultivation. During the rule of Pope Innocent III — , two of the most famous monastic orders were founded.
They were called the mendicant, or begging, orders because their members begged for the food and clothes. At their foundation these orders rejected the previously established monastic model of living in one stable, isolated community where members worked at a trade and owned property in common, including land, buildings, and other wealth.
By contrast, the mendicants avoided owning property, did not work at a trade, and embraced a poor, often itinerant lifestyle. They depended for their survival on the goodwill of the people to whom they preached. They would usually travel in pairs, preaching, healing the sick, and helping the poor. Francis of Assisi founded the order of the Franciscans, who were known for their charitable work. The Dominicans, founded by Saint Dominic, focused on teaching, preaching, and suppressing heresy.
The Dominican Order came into being in the Middle Ages at a time when religion was starting to be contemplated in a new way. Men of God were no longer expected to stay behind the walls of a cloister. Instead, they traveled among the people, taking as their examples the apostles of the primitive Church.
Like his contemporary, Francis, Dominic saw the need for a new type of organization, and the quick growth of the Dominicans and Franciscans during their first century of existence confirms that the orders of mendicant friars met a need.
The inspiration for the Franciscan Order came in when Francis heard a sermon on Matthew that made such an impression on him that he decided to devote himself wholly to a life of apostolic poverty. Clad in a rough garment, barefoot, and, after the Evangelical precept, without staff or scrip, he began to preach repentance.
Francis was soon joined by a prominent fellow townsman, Bernard of Quintavalle, who contributed all that he had to the work, and by other companions, who are said to have reached eleven within a year. The brothers lived in the deserted leper colony of Rivo Torto near Assisi, but they spent much of their time traveling through the mountainous districts of Umbria, always cheerful and full of songs, yet making a deep impression on their hearers by their earnest exhortations.
Their life was extremely ascetic, though such practices were apparently not prescribed by the first rule that Francis gave them probably as early as , which seems to have been nothing more than a collection of Scriptural passages emphasizing the duty of poverty. Similar to Francis, Dominic sought to establish a new kind of order, one that would bring the dedication and systematic education of the older monastic orders like the Benedictines to bear on the religious problems of the burgeoning population of cities, but with more organizational flexibility than either monastic orders or the secular clergy.
Dominic inspired his followers with loyalty to learning and virtue, a deep recognition of the spiritual power of worldly deprivation and the religious state, and a highly developed governmental structure. They were both active in preaching and contemplative in study, prayer, and meditation. The brethren of the Dominican Order were urban and learned, as well as contemplative and mystical in their spirituality. While these traits had an impact on the women of the order, the nuns especially absorbed the latter characteristics and made them their own.
In England, the Dominican nuns blended these elements with their own defining characteristics and created a spirituality and collective personality that set them apart. The Western Schism was a prolonged period of crisis in Latin Christendom from to , when there was conflict concerning the rightful holder of the papacy.
During that time, three men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope. Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schism was ended by the Council of Constance — For a time these rival claims to the papal throne damaged the reputation of the office.
The schism in the Western Roman Church resulted from the return of the papacy to Rome under Gregory XI on January 17, , ending the Avignon Papacy, which had developed a reputation for corruption that estranged major parts of western Christendom.
On April 8, the cardinals elected a Neapolitan when no viable Roman candidates presented themselves. Urban had been a respected administrator in the papal chancery at Avignon, but as pope he proved suspicious, reformist, and prone to violent outbursts of temper.
Many of the cardinals who had elected him soon regretted their decision; the majority removed themselves from Rome to Anagni, where, even though Urban was still reigning, they elected Robert of Geneva as a rival pope on September 20, This second election threw the church into turmoil.
There had been antipopes —rival claimants to the papacy—before, but most of them had been appointed by various rival factions; in this case, a single group of church leaders had created both the pope and the antipope. The conflict quickly escalated from a church problem to a diplomatic crisis that divided Europe.
Secular leaders had to choose which claimant they would recognize. In the Iberian Peninsula there were the Ferdinand Wars and the — Crisis in Portugal, during which dynastic opponents supported rival claimants to the papal office. Sustained by such national and factional rivalries throughout Catholic Christianity, the schism continued after the deaths of both initial claimants; Boniface IX, crowned at Rome in , and Benedict XIII, who reigned in Avignon from , maintained their rival courts.
When Boniface died in , the eight cardinals of the Roman conclave offered to refrain from electing a new pope if Benedict would resign, but when his legates refused on his behalf, the Roman party then proceeded to elect Innocent VII. In the intense partisanship characteristic of the Middle Ages, the schism engendered a fanatical hatred between factions.
Efforts were made to end the schism through force or diplomacy. None of these remedies worked. The suggestion to have a church council resolve the schism was first made in , but was not initially adopted because canon law required that a pope call a council. They balked at the last moment, and both colleges of cardinals abandoned their popes. A church council was held at Pisa in under the auspices of the cardinals to try solving the dispute. At the fifteenth session, on June 5, , the Council of Pisa deposed the two pontiffs as schismatical, heretical, perjured, and scandalous.
But it then added to the problem by electing another incumbent, Alexander V. He reigned briefly from June 26, , until his death in , when he was succeeded by John XXIII, who won some, but not universal, support.
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