What were the main problems facing Christians during the sixteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Problems for Christianity in the sixteenth century
1. Christianity had hardly reached or had only superficially penetrated
many parts of society
a. mission-minded felt the need of a new conversion strategy,
addressed to the poor; the rootless masses of growing cities
2. pagan beliefs permeated the countryside
a. rural communities still lived in worlds full of spirits and demons
b. clerics had to enforce their claim to a monopoly over ritual
4. people were more concerned about religion that dealt with the survival
in this world toward rather than one that dealt with salvation in the next
a. trials of rats and exorcisms of swarms of locusts
b. appeals to folk healers and wise women
c. vows to saints for worldly purposes
d. charms to master nature
e. spells to conjure the supernatural
5. rituals and common local religious practices were the common enemies
of the clergy of all Christian traditions strove to control or abolish
6. private practices such as bigamy and fornication
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