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The Church and Culture
Directions: Use Chapter 7, 8, and your Source Book to help you answer the following questions:
1. What did St. Augustine say about governments in City of God?
2. How did St. Jerome impact future Christians?
3. How did Leo I’s Petrine Supremacy help establish Christianity?
4. Define Papal States:
5. How did Gregory I increase the influence of the Church:
a. .
b. .
c. .
6. With the growth of monastic communities, why did communal life become common?
7. As monastic communities spread, how were monks and nuns perceived by the public?
8. St. Anthony, T181: What values did the Church promote with stories like that of the
temptations of St. Anthony?
9. What three practices best characterize Irish monasticism?
10. How did Christian monks/ missionaries convert pagans in England/ Europe?
11. Hilda, T185: How was Hilda like St. Benedict (include examples)?
12. St. Boniface, SB 203/ Edline- What does this tell us about attitudes towards pagans?
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13. Why did the lay investiture conflict begin?
14. Why was the Church opposed/ how did lay investiture benefit monarchs?
15. What is canon law?