What vows did the Benedictine rule require quizlet?

Under Benedictine Rule, nuns and monks took three vows. The first was the obedience to the abbess or abbot, the leaders of the convent or monastery. The second was poverty, and the third was chastity, or purity. You just studied 7 terms!

Q. What vows did the Benedictine rule require?

Benedictines make three vows: stability, fidelity to the monastic way of life, and obedience. Though promises of poverty and chastity are implied in the Benedictine way, stability, fidelity, and obedience receive primary attention in the Rule – perhaps because of their close relationship with community life.

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Q. What vows did the Benedictine rule require?
Q. How did the church’s spiritual authority lead to political power?
Q. How did the church control medieval life?
Q. Why was the church so corrupt in the Middle Ages?
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Q. How did the church’s spiritual authority lead to political power?

What gave the church spiritual authority and how did that lead to political power? The church administered the sacraments and could deny them as a punishment, it had absolute power in religious matters.

Q. How did the church control medieval life?

The control the Church had over the people was total. Peasants worked for free on Church land. This proved difficult for peasants as the time they spent working on Church land, could have been better spent working on their own plots of land producing food for their families.

Q. Why was the church so corrupt in the Middle Ages?

The Church developed several corrupt practices to pay for these extravagant lifestyles. Christian tradition taught that pilgrimages to sites of relics (objects used by important religious figures) and holy places were acceptable ways of repenting (making up) for one’s sins.