Can anyone please help me with the following question. It has to do with the Med
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Can anyone please help me with the following question. It has to do with the Medici Saga. The answer has to be in 5 sentences only. ThanksWhat conflicts do you expect to see between the ideals of the Renaissance, especially in science, and the Catholic Church? Why?
Can anyone please help me with the following question. It has to do with the Medici Saga. The answer has to be in 5 sentences only. Thanks
What conflicts do you expect to see between the ideals of the Renaissance, especially in science, and the Catholic Church? Why?
Can anyone please help me with the following question. It has to do with the Medici Saga. The answer has to be in 5 sentences only. Thanks
What conflicts do you expect to see between the ideals of the Renaissance, especially in science, and the Catholic Church? Why?
Explanation / Answer
The Renaissance is often seen as a secular and even pagan movement that was in many ways anti-Christian. This was certainly the case in Italy, the birthplace of the Renaissance, here the humanists were particularly worldly and had little interest in the Church. Several early Italian humanists, such as Petrarch sought to reform the Church, but his successors were largely secular in outlook and in their concerns. Many humanist were interested in reforming the Church, but in the main the Church and religion was not a major preoccupation of the Italian humanists. However, there were many Renaissances and the movement took many forms in different countries.
The Northern Humanists made the reform of the Church their chief preoccupation. Many German, English and other Northern Humanists saw no contradictions between Christianity and the study of ancient cultures and believed that they could be reconciled
The humanists employed their textual analysis and techniques to the bible and other works and they made some astonishing discoveries and they provided evidence that undermined the claims of the Catholic Church.
In their examination of key texts and especially the Bible, they exposed many key assumptions as false. This was to lead to a widespread challenge to the idea of Papal Infallibility and the power structure of the Church. The Renaissance also encouraged people to question received wisdom and offered the possibility of change, something that was unthinkable in the middle ages. This encouraged the reformers to tackle abuses in the Church and this ultimately led to the schism and the end of the old idea of Christendom.