Christendom

Print did play an integral role in the success of the Reformation and she might be a child of Gutenberg, however she was not alone “Printing was a revolution in that it made more identical copies at lower cost available should not be credited with the intellectual and psychological changes that were really the result of a new method of reading. Whether manuscript or text” (Chartier). There are so many components that play into the successes of the Reformation during the 16th century. However,…

Tradition the author, Gloria Fiero presents Martin Luther as the voice of the religious reform movement against the abuses of the Church of Rome. Martin Luther's revolt against the church was an attempt to put an end to “the misery and wretchedness of Christendom” (Friero, Pg. 475). Hence he insisted that the way to find peace with God was through having heartful faith in God. Thus this idea contradicted some of the corrupt behaviors that the church was practicing such as indulgences.…

Introduction: In Overhearing the Gospel, Fred B. Craddock makes the case for Kierkegaard’s communication method of indirect discourse (Craddock, 2002). The author seeks to answer this following question: “How does one person communicate the Christian faith to another?” (Craddock, 2002, p. 4). Craddock sets out to analyze the aspects of Kierkegaard’s method of communication and clarify the problems the 19th-century Danish philosopher’s indirect discourse approach faced in communicating the gospel…

The Middle Ages was a time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance (The Middle Ages). This time period is also often called the “medieval period” by some. As a way to control the timeline, the Middle Ages were split into three sections. The Middle Age’s began as a transition to a more structured system and ended with the increasing power of the merchants and artisans in the towns. These are called the early, high, and late Middle Ages. In the time between…

The Duchess of Malfi takes place in Italy, during the 16th century. It begins in Malfi, or Amalfi, at the duchess’ court in the province of Salerno on the Western coast of Italy. The scene later changes to Ancona as well as Loretto, and interspersed throughout are scenes in Rome where Bosola reports to Ferdinand and the Cardinal. The play is believed to be set between the years 1504 and 1508, but spans several years as Antonio and the Duchess establish their family, all while keeping it a secret…

Number I There are several reasons for the start of the Crusades. The rapid expansion of Islam leading to the Holy War is one of the main causes. Western Europe is the main region where Christian concept took root and grew into Holy War. Even with the close measures of the Islamic Kingdoms, Byzantine Christians, never found value in waging or condoning war. Within a century of Constantine I’s rule, “[c]hristians in government found themselves faced with questions of life and death, war and…

Gaddafi currently has set a very high bar for crimes an individual can commit. Gaddafi has been involved with many terrorist attacks and has ordered to kill many. Gaddafi has been involved in the bombing of the Berlin disco, Pan Am flights, Libyan hospitals, and Libyan cities. Gaddafi has also “crushed a 1996 prison uprising by killing 1,200 people” (“Libya’s Tyrant Must Depart”). Macbeth has also committed many cruel deeds that have allowed him to stay in power. Macbeth’s brutal crimes can be…

The Ottoman empire was first found in the thirteen hundreds. The empire stretches much further back, but it was under the leadership of Osman that this great empire succeeded in moving out from its territory in northwestern Anatolia and started conquering and taking over other territories. The first main victory took place in the Balkans, and these conquests led them to return to western Anatolia flush with money and men. In the middle of the fifteenth century they had already took some…

Patterns persuade. 1963, the United States of America was in turmoil. The tension was rising between black and white, bond and free, north and south. Turmoil was building up for the eventual Civil War, one of the most crucial events in the nation’s history. Martin Luther King, Jr., a pinnacle leader in the race for freedom of the Negro people and a key icon of the Civil War, had been arrested and imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama for certain demonstrations. Local clergymen issued a statement…

It would be easy enough to imagine that increase in reports of leprosy and heresy in Medieval Europe were just the result of the disease spreading or being better understood, but Richard Moore suggests there was much more going on. Leprosy and heresy cannot be examined as a cultural aspect without looking at the greater series of events that were faced by medieval Europe. It is no mistake that cases of leprosy increased at the same time as cases of heresy. The increase of centralized powers…