CHALLENGES TO CHURCH

AUTHORITY

STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVE

• The students will trace the reactions of the church to challenges on a graphic organizer.

FOCUS QUESTION

• How did the church react to challenges from Heretics, Muslims, and Jews?

As you have read, most As you have read, most Europeans in the Middle Ages Europeans in the Middle Ages

belonged to the Catholic Church. belonged to the Catholic Church. As Christianity spread in Europe, As Christianity spread in Europe,

many Jews and Muslims were many Jews and Muslims were pressured to become Christian or pressured to become Christian or leave their homes. At the same leave their homes. At the same time, others openly challenged time, others openly challenged

the church’s authority.the church’s authority.

Some Christians began to question Church teachings.

Religious ideas that oppose accepted church teachings are

called heresy.

People who have ideas that oppose the church are called heretics. Heretics were

fined, imprisoned, or killed.

Christians fight the Moors

• The Muslim Moors

controlled Spain.• Christians fought them to

take away land.• They called this

Reconquista, or reconquest.

The Rise of Portugal and Spain• Please turn to page 283 in the text.

• The marriage of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella united Castile and Aragon.

JEWS FACE DISCRIMINATION

• Christians believed that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus.

• Christians killed Jews during the Crusades.

• Jews were blamed for the Black Death.

• Throughout Europe, Jews were forced out of their homes or killed.

The Spanish Inquisition

• Ferdinand and Isabella created the Spanish Spanish InquisitionInquisition, an organization of priests that looked for and punished non-Christians.

• They were ruthless in seeking heretics, Muslims, and Jews.

• People found guilty were sentenced in huge public ceremonies and most were burned in public.

CHRISTIAN REACTIONSCHRISTIAN REACTIONSTO GROUPS IN THE MIDDLE AGESTO GROUPS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

CHRISTIANREACTIONS

HERETICSHERETICSPeople who have

ideas that oppose thechurch. They were

Tortured, fined, Imprisoned and killed.

MOORSMOORSThe Muslim Moorscontrolled Spain.

Christians fought themto take land away. TheyCalled this Reconquista.

JEWSJEWSWere seen as

Responsible for the Death of Jesus; blamed

for the Black Death; were forced out of their

homes or killed.

FOCUS QUESTION

• How did the church react to challenges from Heretics, Muslims, and Jews?

They sent priests and friars to find them. They were sent to prison, tortured, and even killed if they did not leave during the RECONQUISTA.

Why were church officials interested in finding heretics?

• They might have been worried that heretics might lead others to question the church’s teachings.

How did Reconquista affect Spanish Jews and Muslims?

• Jews had to convert to Christianity or leave the country. Islam was banned.

Why did some Christians discriminate against Jews?

• They blamed them for the death of Jesus.

What was the purpose of the Inquisition?

• To find and punish non-Christians in Spain.

WHAT WERE SOME OF THECHALLENGES THE CHURCH

FACED?

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