Christianity Gives Direction How does Christianity give direction? In chapter 70 of The Discoverers, the pages are filled with examples of how Christianity paved the way in history. Today’s authorities in the church still aspire to pave the way in history. More specifically the history that will tell the immigration story.…
As the Muslims grow in numbers, starting around 700 CE, the Christians and popes felt threatened by the spreading of Islamic power and domination. Because of this, the popes recruited a group called the Crusades. A crusade is a medieval military or army. The purpose of gathering a crusade is to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims and to stop them from growing in power. However, in order to gather the group, popes from all over Europe, use religious and political reasons to motivate and persuade the Crusaders.…
WIll Abrahamson 3/23/18 History Matteo Ricci Article Critique In the Intricacies of Accommodation: The Proselytizing Strategy of Matteo Ricci, the author, Yu Liu creates the argument that the importance of Matteo Ricci in being an exchange of cultures, which were east and west, came accidently through him being a missionary. I find this argument by Yu Liu to be very compelling, for two reasons. The first reason is that gives credit to Matteo Ricci as being successful in the sense that he bridged cultures, but as a missionary he lacked results, the second is that the source provides great detail into the journey of Ricci, starting with his arrival in China in 1583. The second reason is related to the first, in that it seems that…
Another motive for setting sail on his voyage was that Columbus desired the conversion of Christianity over non-religious cultures. He encountered the Taíno, who where the first Native Americans he was in contact with. They were part of the Arawak language group, and their world was stretched a thousand miles across the islands of the Caribbean. His immediate thought was that they had no religion, so it would take no effort in converting them to Christianity. Columbus saw the Taíno as a way to expand his personal wealth, so, “He selected 500 to be exported to Spain as slaves, and 500 to serve as slaves to the Spanish on the Island.…
In response to this new assertion of royal independence from the papacy, the papalists struck back. In 1302, one such papalist, Giles of Rome, completed his treatise entitled De Ecclesiastica Potestate. Giles’ Ecclesiastica is evidence of some of the contemporary views of papal monarchists who argued for a universal monarchy, with the papacy at its head, though by the time of Giles’ writing, the views in support of a papal monarchy were beginning to die out. His theories were written in direct response to the events of the difficulties between Philip IV and Boniface VIII. It was originally believed that his attitude in regards to the conflict was in favour of the king.…
St Benedict was a wise man. In 530BCE, Benedict wrote a Rule for monks living communally under the authority of an Abbott. Years past and people took notice of his Rule. Today, Benedict's Rule is being followed by Christians all over the world. But how is his Rule a guide for Christian living?…
The Roman Empire in the fourth century C. E. underwent a major change in the religious arena. The Emperor of Rome, Constantine conversion to Christianity was seen was the turning point in history when he gave boost to the religion by supporting it financially. Roman culture and society completely transformed when Christianity started to spread wide and far. As the Christian population continued to grow, the creation of hierarchy in the church was established to organize the believers in the Roman Empire. Although Christianity was growing there was still many struggles and controversies.…
Andie Zatarain Mr. Harris Church History 2nd period October 2, 2017 Saint Augustine, Intellectual snob or intellectually curious? Throughout the confessions, by Augustine of Hippo, Augustine was academically curious. Augustine was not an intellectual snob. St. Augustine’s intellectual curiosity lead him to convert into the Christian faith.…
The Church had separate trials and punishments to those of the monarch’s, any member of the Church who committed a crime would be judged in the Church court. The Church would judge a person’s innocence through trials by ordeals. These ordeals include ordeal by poison, water, pulling an object from boiling oil, carrying hot metal over a certain distance, walking over hot coals if one of the burns got infected, the person would guilty. If a person would be found guilty, assuming that they weren’t dead from infections or burns, they would be punished by banishment or excommunication, were the person would be unable to talk to any church member or attend any church activities. These laws were also used on King John in the 15th century causing a rebellion, which meant that the Church had far greater influence on the people and the barons than the…
In AD 64, a large fire spread through Rome and nearly destroyed it, crippling its economy and forcing many citizens to flee. Nero, who is often accused of “fiddling while Rome burned,” irresponsibly stood by as much of Rome was consumed. Now in a difficult position, he blamed Christian arsonists. This led to a large, state-sanctioned killing of Christians that continued, on-and-off depending on various historical events and periods of peace, to AD 313, when Constantine ended it with the Edict of Milan. One of the supporters of this persecution was Emperor Diocletian.…
During the Early Middle Ages, Europe was enslaved by the Roman Catholic Church. Well discipline oppressing fear ruled the lives of peasants, mobility, Lords and Kings. The only accepted Christian religion was the Catholic religion. All other religious sects were regarded as heretics. A heretic, any belief or doctrine disagreeing with the Church.…
In the book How the Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods, he describes the Catholic church as civilization. Civilization is defined as “an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture,science, industry, and government has been reached” by Dictionary.com. Our modern culture, Western Civilization, was completely built by an institution that is ironically criticized by society today: the Catholic Church. Woods manages to do a great job of defending his thesis through three themes: Church and State, Faith and Reason, and Religious Pluralism. These three themes enabled the Church to impact many and create a more modern civilization.…
Contributions to the Spread of Christianity During the Western Civilization Rational There were many different contributions that spread the religion of Christianity during the Western Civilization. First, the accomplishments of the Hebrews, later recognized as the Jews, helped in spreading Christianity as a religion during the Western Civilization, which was also considered the earliest known civilization (36-38). These different contributions that are mentioned in the Power Point begin from 1250-150 B.C. and last through 5-67 A.D. Each one of these contributions are extremely important to the religion of Christianity of today as without them, Christianity might not be a religion or it might not be the religion that we know it is today. Secondly, during 150-220 A.D., several different individuals helped spread the word of Christianity (180).…
Abelard and Augustine: Devout Sinners and Christians Abelard and St. Augustine felt compelled to write of their mistakes and misfortunes reflective of their lives. Despite the fact they did so in efforts to confess their sins, the two differ in a multitude of ways. Some of which include their approach for convincing people religion can provide them with salvation, or their attitudes towards religion in their earlier life. St. Augustine wrote within the first century where Christianity was a competitor when it came to religion. Up until this time, Roman Paganism was undoubtedly the main religion within Europe.…
Augustine’s Deep Thoughts of Sin and Suffering Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, is unarguably one of the most influential church fathers whose views have helped shape modern protestant theology. He largely contributed to shaping a bible-focused theology that transformed Europe and the majority of the world, and many modern theologians dream of reaching the international stature that Augustine did. But to reach that stage that Augustine got to, did not come easy. He went through a lot of doubts and suffrage, but all of it would ultimately help create the man who still today, is teaching and leading people to Christ.…