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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/43787/
- Published: 2017-10-18T06:31:44.000Z
- Updated: 2017-10-18T06:31:44.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Tonight's Handout:

**Nominalism**   
 William of Occam (Early 1300s): All is the way it is because God says so. Common sense be damned b/c it detracts from God's glory. Does God ordain something because it's good for humans? Or is something good because God ordains it?

**The Black Death**  
 Plague. 1350ish. Rising wages; followed by falling wages. Less money for beer; mad peasants.

**Sacraments**  
 Bestow grace that leads to inner sanctification? Or is inner sanctification not possible?

**Indulgences**  
 Does the Catholic Church have the authority to loose and bind or doesn't it? John 20:23; Matthew 16:19; II Corinthians Chp. 5.

**District 12 in Panem**  
 How many Germans viewed Germany vis-Ã -vis Rome (the Capitol)

**Nepotism**  
 Putting family into official positions

**Pluralism**  
 Bishops presiding over more than one diocese

**Absenteeism**  
 Bishop not present because, you know, he has other dioceses

**Simony**  
 Selling offices

**Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503)**  
 Evil man. Proof that the Church must be divine or couldn't have survived this SOB

**Humanism**  
 Technically, “northern humanism.” Back to the sources! Back to early Christianity. Emphasis on faith and simplicity. Hated Church corruption. Erasmus; St. Thomas More.

**Thomas a'Kempis (1380-1471)**  
 Author of *The Imitation of Christ*. A classic. A must read if you're seeking to bridge spiritual dialogue with a Protestant. Fueled by Nominalism, but that's not where its greatness rests.

**Popular piety**  
 Incredible rise in years leading up to the Reformation. This is a shocking change in historical narrative/perspective over just the past 30 years.

***Sola fides***  
 Faith alone: Ignore James (“Epistle of straw”)

***Sola gratia***  
 Grace alone: Do you really believe there is no free will? Put down that crack pipe and be honest.

***Sola scriptura***  
 Bible alone: Nowhere does the Bible say this

**Fuggers**  
 Great name. Lenders.

**Bishop Albert Albrecht**  
 Bought a diocese, borrowed money from Fuggers to pay for it

**Johan Tetzel**  
 SOB abuser of indulgences. Helping Albrecht not get his knees broken.

**Holy Roman Empire**  
 Not holy, not Roman, not an empire. Basically, Germany and some surrounding areas.

**Charles V**  
 Holy Roman Emperor. Devout Catholic, his penchant for mistresses notwithstanding

**Reformation for $1000, Alex. “Holy Water Fonts”**  
 Where did some early zealous reformers take craps?