In the Fourteenth Century, People Who Began to Question the Authority

question 25

Multiple Choice

In the fourteenth century, people who began to question the authority of the international church and its clergy used all the following arguments except that the

• A) pope had no authority over kings.
• B) state needed no guidance from the papacy.
• C) clergy was not above secular law.
• D) pope was indeed the Antichrist.
• E) church was only a spiritual body whose power does not extend to the political realm.

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