Essay On Christianity In The Middle Ages

Though Christianity customs and traditions have evolved over time, its core belief has stayed the same over centuries. From the time of the Middle Ages, and even in today’s day and age, there have been many conflicts within the Christian church causing it to split multiple times, creating the denominations that we know today. This was due to the different opinions presented by church hierarchy about different traditions and views that should start to be incorporated; or even some that should cease to exist. Before I continue on with the similarities and differences during the Middle Ages and now, let me begin with how Christianity came to be. “We know that by the second century, Jesus of Nazareth was the divine Son of God, who had been resurrected from the dead to save all humanity. …show more content…
They were also known to take a journey barefoot to a shrine. It was believed that if you were a true believer, you would willingly give up what your ‘flesh’ wanted and become like Jesus. This is done when one changes their inner self (or heart, as most refer to it) by “prayer and confession and disciplining the body- fasting, going on a pilgrimage, even torturing the body (Engen, Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages: Christian History Interview- Stepping into a Christian Culture).” “[Parents] often sent their children to the schools established by the Church. Even though the education was meager, it allowed the selected students to pursue studies in religion, philosophy and Latin at the monasteries (Dickson, A History of Christianity in the Middle Ages)…” Actually, those who believed in different religions were considered