Bishop

political forms including Congregational, Presbyterian, and Episcopal. As matter of fact, the different features in each church system creates the disagreement in scripture practices, moral issues, and salvation. Episcopal policy generally rules by Bishops, or priests, was named as church leaders. Majority church decisions based on an autocratic authority structure. Unlike episcopal ruling, Presbyterian rules by elders, who are church leader. Likewise, pastors generally are elders and make…

The study of the Carolingians can sometimes be daunting based on the vast amount of sources, different languages used in the secondary sources, and the numerous arguments presented. That being said, this work looks at the way the church influenced the monarchy, specifically through the use of the Speculum Principum, followed with a chapter viewing if those ideas made an impact upon King Louis the Pious. The Carolingians were a product of their own demise. By gifting too much power to the church,…

Roman Catholicism and Presbyterianism are two religions that people in the world today participate in and live by. Each of them have stemmed from the time of Jesus Christ. Back then there was not a good way to create text to last forever for others to read. When the time came around for the word of the Lord to be recorded— the text was written in a language that not everyone could read or understand. So when things were converted for others, countless stories and preaching’s were translated…

Anglican Church have opposite views on the roles that women should be allowed to have in the Church. While the Catholic Church is strongly against women becoming ordained ministers, the Anglican Church allows women to become deacons, priests, and bishops. While these two religions branched from the same set of beliefs, their reasoning behind this decision…

I picked Martin Luther, he was an argumentative man. Luther, judged the entire Catholic Church, the position of the Pope, the bishops, the priests, also the monks. Martins’ belief changed Western Culture. Martin Luther believed that the Roman Catholic Church had become too crooked to offer the people the leadership needed to gain redemption. Within ten years Luther had started a revolution that changed Western Civilization. The Catholic Church tried all the will power they had to muzzle Luther,…

In “The Fish”, Elizabeth Bishop described the fish that was being caught and through the imagery readers can decipher the age of the fish. In lines 9-11 of the “The Fish”, it describes that the fishes’ “brown skin hung in strips like an ancient wallpaper”, the readers can use this information and guess that the fish must be at an old age. It would be different if Bishop said that the fish was old because then you couldn’t see why the fish was considered old. Bishop described that the fish has…

and inspiring as indicated in the II Vatican Council Documents, especially "The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church," "the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World," "the Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity." and the United States Bishops' Pastoral, "Called and Gifted: Catholic Laity 1980." SECULAR. In the past, the Secular Franciscan Order tended to operate out of a "religious life" model. The II Vatican…

is but one of the many reasons that Pope Innocent III called the Forth Lateran Council. Innocent III was the exemplar of papal monarchy, a mover and shaker of medieval culture that took full advantage of the power invested to him in his office as Bishop of Rome. After eighteen years of reigning from the chair of Peter he called the Great Council…

Starting with King Charlemagne and Pope Leo III, the church and government were connected. Charlemagne offered protection to the church, and the church taught loyalty to the king. If people were breaking the rules in term of faith and not conforming the king would deal with it. Together church and government controlled the masses. For years the alliance between the two bodies kept the people controlled, but when Pope Leo IX decided that the wealthy and the kings should no longer choose the Pope…

The spread of Christianity brought about considerable changes in the late antique world, with similar reactions to the ‘new’ monotheistic religion among the Anglo-Saxons and Irish as could be seen among the Gauls. Not only did the subsequent religious conversion effect the balance of authority in the region, but it also changed the society’ values regarding morality and ethics, as well as gender roles. Conversion itself meant different things to the different social classes. Additionally, the…