Church of Christ

Diffusion for our purpose can be defined as a practice used by people from all walks of life around the globe. Christianity has been diffusing for quite some time now. The diffusion of Christianity all began with Jesus Christ. This man was the only son of God sent to earth to spread the word of God. He went around to new places and told stories, about the love and hope that are alive in the world. He taught about loving your peers as you would love yourself. He brought…

In this essay I’ll be discussing the history of Baroque art and two artist from that era, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Then I’ll explain the role of the church during this era and how Caravaggio and Bernini differently conveyed faith and commitment to the church. Lastly, I’ll give my visual analyze on Bernini’s painting Ecstasy of St. Teresa and Caravaggio’s painting Crucifixion of St. Peter. The Baroque era came about from the Reformation which was a religious…

With not only raising political concerns like taxes and power, Cromwell further commanded the Catholic of England to transition their religion to Protestant, corresponding with himself and Henry VIII. Cromwell demolished monasteries, ripping the Church lands of the people. In response to these intense efforts to transform England into Protestant, the Catholics living in England formed a protest group of marchers known…

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,…

catholic Church purgatory is a “final purification, to attain the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven” which is experienced by those “who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified” (CCC1030). And also according to Dante’s Arrangement purgatory is a place of systematic discipline,it is only to be expected that it should be more highly and more organized than hell. According to Fritz Chery, the concept of purgatory is false and it disrespect our Lord Jesus…

Funeral My observation of a ceremony that I attended was a Catholic Funeral. While observing a Catholic Funeral I observed ,where the church was located, what the church looked like and statues outside of the church. While walking in the church, the church had an antique look about it such as the windows and the building structure. I also observed the music the church was playing before and during the ceremony, also how Catholic ministers dressed. The prayer the minister spoke was very heart…

was known as a Christian reformer and mystic who had a significant impact on the church. She is the patron of fire prevention. Her real name was Caterina Benincasa. She was born March 25, 13447 in Siena, Italy. Catherine was the daughter of Giacomo Benincasa. St. Catherine wrote a book called “Dialogue” which talks about the love of neighbours as an expression of love for God. Catherine received a vision of Jesus Christ when she was 6 and at the age of 16, she spent most of her time praying and…

that during the Eucharist in Mass, the bread and wine is transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ (Lindberg (L.) 402). This is significant, because during the Reformation in the 16th century, Luther developed the idea of “sola scriptura” or scripture alone (Harris Lecture (H.L.10/14/14). This concept meant that since it did not actually say in the scripture that the bread and body of Christ had been transformed, it hadn’t really happened. Instead, God is present with the bread and…

parish. As his ideas were attacked, he grew more aggressive and became more outspoken with his ideas. He preached against any ceremony not mentioned in the Bible, “he dismissed the whole structure of rituals, ceremonies, and rites that pervaded the church on the grounds that they were not only false, but they interfered with the true worship of God.” In 1381, there was a revolt among the peasants and his opposition took the opportunity to blame him for the incident because the peasants that…

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…