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is unique because I was raised in a Catholic-household, meaning I went through my First Communion and Confirmation, but I still never had the willingness to learn who Christ was, or why I was a Christian. My own personal struggle with my faith finally concluded when I came to APU. The feelings of skepticism and uneasiness about where I was with my faith really felt as though they…

Reformation was described as a widespread theological revolt in Europe, against the abuses and totalitarian control of the Roman Catholic Church. There were three reformers who were identified in support of the cause. Martin Luther in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, and John Calvin in France. These men stood by their beliefs and protested various unbiblical practices of the Catholic Church. The men were trying to get the people to return to sound biblical doctrine. The Protestant…

C.E. The Renaissance is like a phoenix, the mythical creature that dies and is born again from the ashes. Also described as Rebirth, Enlightenment, and Rediscovery, the Renaissance was a time where the people of Europe began to revert back to the school of thought that Plato and Socrates had worked to make. The Europeans rediscovered Philosophy, Religion, and Adventure. To start of course I have to begin with the Philosophy…

children. But in the Catholic faith, that transition starts in the eighth grade. As a Catholic when you become of age, you have to decide whether to continue your belief in the Catholic faith or to move on to something else. I decided to be confirmed and continue my belief. The process to become a confirmed Catholic is a long one. You can’t just walk into church one day and decide to be confirmed on the spot. I, like most people didn’t decide to be baptized into the Catholic religion, my parents…

completely disregards his mystical nature and becomes the forefront of sin and evil in the novel. The nuns in Fludd are far from the quintessential nuns one would expect in the Catholic Church and thus are the least pious in the entire…

which unknowingly at the time, would have lasting effects on the history of Christianity (Mullet, “Luther” 1). During the Reformation, a theologian, Martin Luther considered himself a “liberator” of the people, “freeing Christians from a burdensome Catholic Religious system” (Mullet, “Martin Luther” 1). Luther was a highly educated monk, who later challenged the Roman papacy with his 95 theses, which in return, would then result in his excommunication from the church. His actions and writings…

about the concepts of sin, salvation, penance, and how to worship god. This man was Martin Luther, who over the course of life would change the fabric of practices and ideas in the Roman Catholic Church. Martin Luther was motivated by his own, unique convictions to reject the teachings of the medieval Roman Catholic Church and would challenge…

Letter at Seventeen Welcoming the Stranger among Us: Unity in Diversity (A Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, USCCB, 2000/2001) I. CONTEXT Ecclesia in America (1999) and “Message for World Migration Day 2000” by Pope John Paul II motivated and laid a foundation for the birth of Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity (2000) (hereafter: WSAU) of the U.S. Conference of the Catholic Bishop. In the two papal documents, Pope John Paul II expresses the message of unity in…

especially easy for students to do so because it’s very close to campus and is practically all student run. Our group also had an inside connection with a member of the church which helped us to get a foot in the door. One of the member’s roommates is Catholic and goes to church every week, so it was easy to ask her questions about the church and see if it would be possible to do the study. She immediately told us it wouldn’t be a problem. She said the church is very open and accepting,…

The Voodoo religion has a rich history. It has survived oppressive times and now flourish in both Haiti and the United State. (the place) In the 1600’s, every slave was baptized upon arrival to the new land and was educated in the Catholic faith. They were forced to practice their religion in secret. The African priest, known as “doctor feuilles”, or medicine men and makers of charms, were now slaves and practiced in secret. Some of the slaves wore talismans as protection. Some nights the slaves…