Christianity and modernity-questions
Chapter 1: What is Christianity?
Reading questions:
1. What is the significance of Jesus Christ for the creation of Christianity?
2. What is Christianity?
3. How does one become a Christian?
Chapter 2: Modernity in the history of Christianity
Reading questions:
1. What, in your opinion, is the modernization element of Christianity?
2. How did the early forms of Christianity develop?
3. What is the difference between concrete and abstract Christianity?
Chapter 3: Papacy in the 19th century
Reading questions:
1. How did the French Revolution pre-determine the situation of the papacy in the 19th century?
2. In which ways did the Congress of Vienna influence European Christianity and the political, cultural, and spiritual role the papacy had in it?
3. What was the 1801 Concordat between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII?
4. Did the 19th century papacy use all the tools available to it to develop the Roman Catholic Church?
Chapter 4: The development of the role of the Roman Catholic Church in 19th century Europe
Reading questions:
1. How did the French Revolution influence the political position of the Roman Catholic Church in 19th century Europe?
2. Do you know of any Concordats between states with a predominantly Catholic population and Rome in the 19th century?
3. What impact did the 1848 revolution have on the Roman Catholic Church in Europe?
Chapter 5: The development of papal care for the church in the 19th century
Reading questions:
1. Did the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century assume the role of a guardian of tradition?
2. How was the understanding of church tradition in the Roman Catholic Church restructured in the 19th century?
3. Did Leo XIII’s pontificate provide a new way of understanding the revelation, tradition, theory, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church?
Chapter 6: The shifts in papal care for the church in the 19th century.
Reading questions:
1. What were the demographic, economic, and ideological developments in 19th century Europe and in the Roman Catholic Church?
2. What effects did the establishment of Catholic universities in Rome and Europe have?
3. What was the restoration of the Society of Jesus in 1814 and which new Roman Catholic congregations were founded in the 19th century?
Chapter 7: New directions of Bible study in the 19th century
Reading questions:
1. How was the revelation, Scripture, and tradition relativized in the 18th century? What were the new attempts to understand the paths of reason and experience to the revelation?
2. What were the new streams of modern thought on the Bible in the Protestant environment?
3. What were the new streams of modern thought on the Bible in the Roman Catholic environment?
Chapter 8: The search for new direction in Protestant churches in the 19th century; new movements; revivalism
Reading questions:
1. Was secularisation connected to the Protestant churches’ search for new options in the 19th century?
2. What was the main modernization element of Protestant theology in the 19th century?
3. Were women successful in making an impact on the new paths of Protestant churches in the 19th century?
Chapter 9: Roman Catholic revivalist efforts in the 19th century
Reading questions:
1. What caused the restoration efforts in the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century?
2. Do you know any major representatives of these efforts?
3. How was revivalism connected to secularisation in the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century?