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    Schmalkaldic League against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. All this conflict eventually led to long war the war finally ended by the Peace of Augsburg. This peace treaty led to the Emperor losing power and letting Germany to determine if it was Catholic or Protestant. The reform also affects other parts of Europe like England. After the death of King Edward VII, many prevented his sister Mary I to succeed him and so they crowned his cousin Lady Jane Grey. Mary however did not give up. She and…

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    Christian Persecution

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    History – I think one of the major issues facing Christianity today is the lack of people who put Christian practices into work. Many of the younger Christians don’t seem to take Christianity seriously. They can listen to its teachings, but when the time comes, they rarely put those teachings into practice. I’m sure it’s because that they believe that God plays no active role in their lives. There are also people who take their beliefs in Christianity too far by endangering or slandering people…

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    Early Celibacy Essay

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    of all, may have been the reason for their departure from God’s Truths. Substantially, to all outward appearances, the lack of integrity and sacredness of the brotherhood’s sexual relationship with God looks as if it may be fading away within the Catholic Church. The mystical teachings given through the centuries have lost their real truths, and now emerge to be lukewarm among many of the brotherhood; giving the impression the marriage with the LORD…

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    The Mission is a movie about a Jesuit missionary and the colonial forces of Spain and Portugal. The Mission took place in South America in the eighteenth century. The Spanish and the Portuguese people were competing for the land that the indians were on while two missionaries were trying to convert the indians to Christianity. The movie was actually very historically accurate to what happened. The movie showed the war and what caused it in an very accurate way. In the beginning a missionary was…

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    Utopian texts are created to instigate introspective thought into the society in which the audience lives in. Thomas More wrote Utopia to satirize and to criticise the status quo of his era in 1555. . Written in a time of political, cultural and religious upheaval, it was a revolutionary text that challenged the accepted state of affairs. Through his work, entitled ‘Utopia’ More criticised political corruption, religious hypocrisy, distribution of wealth and the harsh penal code of the time. He…

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    Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland in 1473 and died in the month of May 1543 in Frauenberg, Poland. Nicolaus’ main occupations consisted of being an astronomer, scientist, and mathematician but was also a doctor and painter. Copernicus studied at Krakow University, there he studied painting and mathematics. He then graduated from Krakow University and went to Italy, there he went to two universities, one called the University of Bologna, there he studied religious law and after…

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    Catholic Subcultures

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    These two examples of subcultures are excellent. The Catholic and Presbyterian Church do have many similarities with their primary focus on Christianity but differ greatly as to the path to achieve this life choice, many of which seem to contradict each other. Not having as much knowledge of the doctrine specific to the Presbyterian denomination as Protestants in general I am limited in my response options. It has been many years since I have seriously looked at the similarities and differences…

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    In every part of history, societies have developed remarkable technological innovations. During the Age of exploration, the magnetic compass and the printing press were created. Both these important technological innovations have had both positives and negatives effects on a society or on humanity. Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press, which was very successful. That being said, the magnetic compass had great success also. Johann Gutenberg’s sensational invention had an immense impact…

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    Thomas Cromwell Act

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    The Act in Restraint of Appeals in 1533 was the start of a political process that effectively transferred the power of the Catholic Church to the king, Henry VIII and his advisors and the government. The Act was passed by a Parliament and had listed its grievances against the Church as early as 1529. Rather than have a king foist the act on the people at a time when religion was a major factor in the lives of all people of the town, Thomas Cromwell came up with the idea of giving the act a…

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    Future Social Work

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    Social work back in the day around 2500 B.C. Ancient Hebrews were required to give tithe to benefit the poor. This was considered an act of social working. 373 B.C. King Ashok helped create the first social services known as the abacus, which was used to keep track of the donations. 325 A.D. Emperor Constantine, a Christian church set up a variety of social services such as; elder care, hospitalized, and orphanages. Back then social workers manually hand wrote everything . They didn’t have…

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