Church Fathers

The church was in the center of people 's lives. The men and women listened to its teachings and everything they had to say. The church slowly became corrupt because the leaders were trying to maintain a prideful facade. Leaders of the church decided to excommunicate and even execute people who challenged the church 's teachings. Jan Huss was one of these men that did not accept the church 's teachings. He was a Czech priest that was highly influenced by John Wycliffe. He was burned in 1415…

The event know as the “Great Schism” in 1054 AD marked the division between the Eastern Orthodox and Western Roman Catholic Church. The official reason for their separation was the filioque question that asked whether the Holy Spirit was a product of the God the Father alone (Eastern Orthodox belief) or from both the God the Father and God the Son (according to the Western Roman Catholics) along with a few other ecclesiastical and theological differences. It was the pope’s…

Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany on November 10, 1483 his father was a miner so they moved to Mansfeld a large mining town. When he faced a life or death situation he vowed to become a monk, so on July 17th he entered the Augustinian Monastery in Erfurt. He became a priest in 1508 and began teaching in 1512, in the theological faculty at university of Wittenberg. It was here where here he began to realize the failures of the Catholic church, soon he would become one the of the most important…

never be ordained as priests in the Catholic Church. He cited St. John Paul II to briefly explain why women were banned from ordination. However, Francis continued by saying, “I ask myself: who is most important in theology and in the mystic of the Church: the apostles or Mary on the day of Pentecost? It's Mary! ...the Church is a woman! It's "la Chiesa" (in Italian), not "il Chiesa"...it's "la Chiesa" and the Church is the spouse of Christ… A Church doesn't exist without this feminine dimension…

things he had read in books. Romero also shows his belief that the church should be separate from state, when he stays in the car when himself and another priest go to help people who had been stopped by the military on there way to the voting polls. As the movie progresses he is shown transforming into a more involved member of the community. When Father Grande was killed, Romero decided that there should no longer be a separate church for the rich and the poor, and he worked to make one mass…

Martin Luther lived in Germany and his father was would encourage him to study law and become a lawyer as was practical during his time. One day he was walking along the road and lightning struck a tree near him and the explosion blew him away but that day he realized that God had saved him. It was due to this religious event that he felt inspired to become a monk. Luther was afraid of the possibility of not going into heaven and because of this fear turned to the Bible for comfort. He…

Reformation dates back to the 16th century. This revolution touched political, religious and cultural aspects of life all over Europe. Martin Luther became the Father the Protestant Reformation, an event that strongly affected the influence of the Catholic Church across the continent, changing forever the unquestioned dominance of the Roman Church. It was during this time, that a priest named Johann Tetzel arrived in Wittenberg to sell indulgences. Luther who was against the sale…

organization and importance of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Innocent, the Third called a meeting of the fourth Lateran Council in 1215. There were a huge number of Bishops, Abbots and envoys from several European Kingdoms. The issues addressed at the council were along the lines of making the church more godly and spiritual, and addressing the problem of heresy. Pope Innocent considered heresy a serious problem and he wanted absolute authority over the church. In the first canon,…

that is tied together by similar beliefs, features of worship and church structure. Christianity is a religion which incorporates a range of denominations and faith groups, including Anglicanism; a tradition joined to Christianity consisting of ‘The Church of England’, which claims to be both reformed and Catholic following parallel beliefs to Christianity, which are evident throughout its worships and church services. The Church of England operates openly and independently around the world,…

planned. For example, in the short story “St. Francis of Assisi”, the main character, Francis, wants to pursue a life devoted to Jesus by rebuilding a church. This idea is considered idiotic, because Francis comes from a wealthy family of merchants. The relationship most important from the short story is St. Francis’s relationship with Pietro, his father. First, when a son or a daughter leaves home to accomplish something significant, it can cause tension within…