Chapter 15 Section 4

The Church and SocietyPages 544-552 questions 1-6

1. What is Theology?

• Theology is the study of religion and God.

2. What is vernacular language, and what were common vernacular languages in medieval

times?

• Vernacular Language is a local everyday language; Spanish, French, English, Italian, and

German.

3. Draw a Venn Diagram

Cistercians farm, pray,live secluded lives

All three Catholic orders of men stress simple living

Franciscan and Dominicans friars who preach or study in cities

4. How did the Inquisition treat people brought before it?

• The Inquisition would torture suspected heretics who would not confess.

5. How did Christian beliefs results in a resettlement of the Jews? Where did many of the Jews settle in the Middle

Ages?

• Christians persecuted the Jews and expelled them. Many Jews settled in Poland and other Eastern European countries.

6. What were Thomas Aquinas’s beliefs related to government?

• Thomas Aquinas claimed that natural law gave people certain rights that the government

should not take away