Anabaptist

CH 12 Age of religious wars Matthew Bauchert RENEWED RELIGIOUS STRUGGLE PG 390 -392 • Peace of Augsburg – legal Lutheranism in HRE but not Calvinists and Anabaptists • After council of Trent-Jesuits launch global counter-offensive against Protestantism • Intellectuals preach tolerance before politicians • Castellio comments of killing of Servetus by calvin • Politiques- rulers who urged tolerance, moderation, and compromise • Catholics and Protestants struggle for control of France,…

hundred and seventy thousand men capable of bearing arms.”(Chalmers). Chalmers is explaining the amount of men that are able to be in America's “army” if they were to be a separate country. He continues, “If we deduct the people called Quakers, Anabaptists, and other religionists averse to arms; a considerable part of the emigrants, and those having a grateful predilection… we shall certainly reduce the first number to sixty or seventy thousand men”(Chalmers). Furthermore, he is stating that…

Voltaire’s Candide is one of the most famous works of the Enlightenment. Voltaire questions a huge variety of ideas and social establishments through his satire, including the philosophy of Optimism promoted by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It is generally accepted that Candide disputes Leibniz ' optimism; there are many instances that indicate this in the text, especially surrounding the Eldorado episode. Optimism is the idea that God created the “best of all possible worlds” (Leibniz 228), and…

The Roman Catholic Church experienced a major split in the early 16th century. Humanism, which expanded the power of writing and reasoning beyond religious scholars, along with the consequences of plagues and wars, and the secular involvement and corruption of the Church led many to lose credibility in the what-was-then-current establishment of Christianity. One of the people that were unhappy with the church was Martin Luther, who in the early 1500s posted his Ninety-Five Theses on a church…

Massachusetts Bay Government officials focused on things such as fishing and whaling near the coast, as a form of economic stimulus. The fisherman used the whale blubber to create oil for heating purposes. Officials also focused on the building ships, as well as exporting items such as rum, timber, furs, and livestock. Those people inland used farming to grow crops such as corn, pumpkin, rye, squash, and beans, as a way of producing income and influencing the economy The society of the…

‘chosen people’ and believe that is is their duty to remain obscured by the world around them. Remaining separate from the world allows them to not become like the outsiders and to focus on their true duties as Christians. The reason the Amish are Anabaptist is because they believe that a person within the community should not become baptized until they are at peak of adulthood. Mennonite and Amish are similar in that they both believe that one should not be baptized until they are an adult, but…

Moliere believed in the religious hypocrisy and fanaticism. Candide satirized the European society by criticizing the hypocrisy of the clergy. Voltaire supported the importance of flexible thinking and scientific reasoning. Even though he believed in the existence of God, he was still judgmental of critical of revealed religion as well as of religious optimism and fanaticism. Tartuffe was an evaluation of religions hypocrisy as expressed in Tartuffe. Orgon believed Tartuffe was loyal…

During the Reformation, Catholics and Protestants were opposed on several fundamental issues regarding the Christian faith. These disagreements led to one of the most sweeping changes to occur within Christianity since Constantine. The two sides differed significantly in their understanding and interpretation of the Scripture, and of the Christian life. The main points of contention were regarding the understanding of the concepts of Sola Gratia (grace alone), Sola Fide (faith alone), and Sola…

I am enjoying the books and videos for the class. For my Session 2 topic, I chose to debate infant baptism. The topic was so interesting that I read three books. Before I knew it, I spent so much time reading that I left myself with only one day to write my paper. That was stressful, and I vowed never to do that again. Then I launched into the Session 3 readings on historical theology and once again, I became over-engrossed on the subject. I found myself, in this case surfing from website to…

Voltaire was one of the greatest writers and philosophers during the age of enlightenment. Using his controversial works, including more than 50 plays, he was able to “knock mankind on the head and reassure it at the same time” (Academy). Throughout this era, the enlightenment was used to undercut religious belief and replace it with logical reasoning. This ideology was strongly opposed by Louis XIV, who was one of the best dictators at the time due to his intelligence. This became apparent when…