Christian Church

The Christian religion is and has been one of the most prominent religions in the whole world and Martin Luther deeply impacted how the church ran in the Renaissance. He was a teacher and a great writer who used his teaching to help others. He was a Christian humanist, religious influencer and father of the protestant reformation which changed the way people viewed God in the Renaissance. Due to all of these things and many more, I believe that Martin Luther deserves to be awarded “Most…

began. The Church started to gain much more power than the governing bodies. So much that at various times, an intense struggle for religious authority and political power played out. Even as that struggle continued the Church still affected the people at that time and spread throughout the world with great speed. Christianity had effects on the government during the middle ages with religious leaders vs. Kings and Queens. The Church had their own laws and its own courts of justice. The Church…

beliefs. Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians ultimately believe in a monotheistic life and life after death. They also used religion to unite the empire. Similarly, Roman and Orthodox Christians understand that Jesus was born from a virgin, murdered, and resurrected. As well, holding the Bible and ten commandments as truth. Although in the way the trinity was explained, the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches had differing views. As the Roman Catholic church centered on the Trinity’s…

While there may be debate as to what the most important event was in the time periods all the way up to the 1600’s, I would argue that it was in introduction of the Christian religion to the western civilizations. Every aspect of civilization was impacted by this socially, economically and politically. Christianity was first introduced by Constantine in the Roman Empire in the late third century. Constantine issued the famous Edict of Milan, which made it official that the Romans would tolerate…

The figure of St. John Paul II is colossal in modern times. As one of the most influential figures of the 20th century as well as one of Catholicism’s longest serving popes he sought to reconnect the Church with its congregation, other faiths and especially world youth and functioned as a great inspiration for positive social change. Due to his uncommonly long papacy he fully developed numerous theological ideas and promulgated numerous seminal encyclicals, some of which presented a somewhat…

Imagine being a member of the Catholic Church in the early 1500’s and witnessing the corruption that occurred. A religious man named Martin Luther lived through the crookedness of the Church and wrote about it to spread awareness throughout Europe. His work inspired others to take action in the Church. These actions caused what we know today as the Protestant Reformation. So, who really was Martin Luther and why was he so important to the start of the Protestant Reformation? To understand what…

Luther’s successor as the preeminent Protestant theologian. He plays an important role in the Church History. It is him who made a powerful impact on the fundamental doctrines of Protestantism. He is not only a famous French religious reformer, but also the founder of Calvinism and the writer of a monumental book, Institutes of the Christian Religion. In my opinion, Calvinism and Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin’s greatest achievement because they are systematic and…

The Catholic Church responded to the Reformation by calling the Council of Trent to resolve issues that had been made clear by the Protestants. It was held in Trentino in Northern Italy because it was near where the German Protestants lives and they invited them to the council. It lasted for 18 years between 1545 and 1563. It had three sessions between 1545-1549, 1551-1552, and 1562-1564 because it was interrupted by plague and war. The Council was held to clearly state church teachings. The two…

Catholic Church broke with tradition regarding ecumenism. For the first time, rather than regarding the Jewish people as the “killers of Christ”, they acknowledged them as their “older Christian brothers”. Vatican II recognized God’s covenant with the Jews, and the Catholic Church’s roots in Judaism. In addition to addressing the Jewish faith in a more amicable way, the attitude towards other Christian faiths was decidedly more friendly. Rather than taking the stance that the Catholic Church was…

was a schism/split between the Roman church (Carnine 62). This was caused by the different beliefs between the popes in the church such as icons (Carnine 62). Icons are a part of new innovations over time because they are still used today to represent words or expressions such as the apple on iphones. This represents the company and the product. “In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers” (Carnine…