Church of Christ

in using Priests, the priests preformed many duties amongst the villages and preformed several ceremonies that were sacred to the Celtic culture. Just as the Christians have priests, the Christians use priests in everything that has to do with the church. Marrying, blessings, and other sacred duties that would require a certain priesthood to carry out. The afterlife according to the Celts that after you died, your immortal spirit passed into the next world, then you have to actually pass though…

1. Trace the stylistic development of the Romanesque church. As Romanesque art began to expand, the churches began to expand as well. Churches expanded throughout western Europe. The churches were beginning to be designed larger than the previous churches because they needed to accommodate the increase of monks and priests. These churches had dormitories designed in them for the monks to live in. Romanesque churches were designed with arched windows, barrel vaults and groin vaults, which were…

themselves fully, into the Church. Baptism translates to “immersion.” “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:13). All baptized Catholics are joined into one Body of Christ. In other words, through Baptism, we become one community and one people under God. Catholics tend to be baptized as infants, to begin their relationship with the Church. Baptism is…

One of the main points addressed at the council was the heretical teaching of Arianism. Arianism is the belief that Jesus Christ, while more divine than man, is subservient to God, and not part of the holy trinity. This theological division roared into the spotlight from a sermon given by then Bishop St. Alexender. Alexender proclaimed that the father, the son, and the holy…

last century before mayhem rang throughout the Catholic Church. In the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Church had become overrun with un-eligible bishops, priests, leaders, and weak popes. With the leaders of the Church so corrupted, many seized this opportunity to expose the workings of the Church and to challenge its doctrine. Although the pope responded to these challenges, a reformation occurred. This division of the church and people led to numerous problems and much bloodshed…

The St. Martin’s Catholic Church, where he was last a priest at for over 20 years, was a strong community of volunteering through leadership. When a small task came up, someone covered it. When someone was completing a task, you would hear that they were simply offering it up. Life…

Martin Luther with a background as a professor and priest wrote in 1520 “The Freedom of a Christian “.This writing is about the three treaties he put out about how the church should run things. He shows Christians that they don’t need to do anything special like indulgences to please god and get into heaven. He tells Christian that salvation is by faith and grace alone not any good works (Protestant Reformation notes and lecture on Martin Luther). Luther also explains that there should be no…

This document is an Apostolic Exhortation by Pope John Paul II, written to the episcopate, the clergy, and to the members of the whole Catholic Church. Its purpose is to address the role of the Christian family in response to the changing issues they face in our modern world, in order to provide encouragement and enlightenment in Christ and His Church amongst the ever-growing secularized world. To highlight the importance of the Christian family, there are several examples given demonstrating…

The Protestant Reformation was the splitting of Western Catholic Christianity in the 16th century. Corruption started to become evident in the Catholic Church and reformers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin set out to change the church. Once Luther had seen this major corruption, he started to travel through Europe proclaiming his beliefs and criticizing the papacy. Pope Leo X and Charles V worked together to punish Luther but the Germanic states helped to hide Luther. Protestantism quickly…

of the Ninety-Five Theses concerning the issue of indulges, which he posted on the door of the church, was a condemnation of practices by the clergy which for the preceding 150 years, had festered and weakened the religious institution to the point of rendering it a contradiction of itself. The actions Luther targeted were the main issues which had caused a slow deterioration of the standing of the church through the years. The degrading actions of the religious institutions were pointed out by…