Celibacy

Both historians and Catholics believe that Pope Innocent III and Pope Gregory VII as some of the greatest figures in history because they thought of everything in religious terms. More importantly, using their powers, they were able to achieve their goals of saving the welfare of the Church and Christian civilization. The Middle Ages was known as a period of European history, from the 5th to the 15th century, that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and preceded the Early Modern…

Pope Gregory VII Often considered one of the most influential and controversial popes of the Middle Ages, Gregory VII became pope after a long career in the papal court. Historians have claimed that the papacy of Gregory VII is so important and must be emphasized, they have coined the term “Gregorian Reform”. Gregory VII played an important role in Europe during his time, and was a major contributor both before and after his election to the reform. When discussing the biography of Pope Gregory…

Within the United States of America there is a large controversial topic in debate that has been around for over one hundred years, sexual education in schools. There are two main sides within this debate where people are either for comprehensive sexual education or for abstinence only sexual education. Each type of curriculum has its own support for why it should be taught; one of these two methods has had terrible results to show for its teachings. Informing teenagers of sex can include…

1. The interpretation of modern religion has four conversation partners that interplay to create what we know as theology today. The first conversation partner is tradition. Tradition comes from the latin word tradere meaning “to hand down”. Tradition helps provide a strong base for faith to form by providing consistency based on what has been done in the past. At the core of tradition is the Bible. The Bible has been around for centuries and provides directions for the Christian community in…

In her essay “The Radical, Yet Orthodox, Margery Kempe, Fiona Tolhurst argues: “Based on the testimony of her book, Kempe embodies the opposite of Lollard norms: she is solidly middle-class, implicitly rejects the married state when she chooses celibacy, and enacts an extreme version of women’s devotion through her cryings that reflect medieval representations of the Virgin Mary’s grief” (183). When Margery is on trial in Leicester for participating in Lollardy, she: “acquits herself with the…

Greek Mythology gave a reason behind everything that the Greeks could see, feel, and what they had to do to survive. The Gods and Goddesses gave them a feeling of protection from the things they didn’t understand. They gave the mortals someone to believe no matter what the situation was. Myths gave a reason and story behind the things around them, and why the things were the way were. The ancient Greeks believed that in the beginning there was only Chaos, but out of the empty void, Erebus,…

Jewish commentators were unwilling to tolerate the concept of a human sacrifice in the Scripture” (Reiss 60). Therefore, the more preferable conclusion that the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter took place as a figurative sacrifice into a life of celibacy took form. Millar elaborates on this interpretation, first by proposing the idea that Jephthah’s vow remains not only justifiable, but a vow made with the purest of intentions through Jephthah genuinely seeking the will of God (452,455).…

the far recesses of their mind. However this once in a lifetime event is typically an American experience and is not something most immigrant children are exposed to Instead, because it is seen as more socially acceptable, they are made to embrace celibacy and abstinence. ( characterized by general statements of “..not until after your married”, and the classic “ Did you go behind the palm trees”). In her novel “How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents”, Julie Alvarez narrates the difficulties…

Over the past half-century, American society has undergone a palpable shift in a number of institutional arenas. In addition to the development of the country’s economic landscape through the market, expedited by factors such as new modes of production and urbanization, the restructuring of the family has been just as profound. With this familial restructuring came changes and some continuity in a number of dimensions, including family structure and composition, gender roles, and values and…

Some time later after several character stories, it is the Wife of Bath’s turn to tell her tale. Before she begins, she gives a very lengthy Prologue. She begins by stating how she considers herself an authority on marriage due to her extensive experience of five marriages since she was first wedded at twelve (TCT, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue lines ). She states she 's received criticism for it due to people citing the Biblical story of the Wedding at Cana, which is the only such event Christ…