Clergy

Life during the medieval period was either great or very difficult. This depended on a person's family history and their classification. Ruling, clergy, middle, and peasant were the four main types of classifications during the medieval times. People in the ruling and the clergy class usually had the best of everything, so their lives were great. Life was very difficult for the middle- class people and the peasants. Most of them did not have much at all. Many peasants would go days without…

Sam Burton Mrs. Tarpey English 3 14 October 2015 Parson Power Many clergy fail to practice the very standards they teach. In the story "The Canterbury Tales," Chaucer clearly displays this lack of respect for religious duty through the monk and friar. On the other hand Chaucer uses the parson to exemplify a priest who does practice what he preaches. Though the parson is a static character, his immutable morals reinforce his constant reputation as a Christ-like figure. Throughout the story…

Estate Planning Law: Top Probate Tips Everyone Should Know According to Wikipedia, probate is the legal process by which a will is proved in court and accepted as a valid document. In short it is the approval of a will’s validity in case of the demise of an estate owner. But what are the most vital probate tips that everyone should know about? The process of administering the estate after the demise of the owner can be suspended until the death certificate has been received. Often the death…

taxed with nobility, church, and government taxes, and lastly enlightenment ideas because the bourgeoisie wanted more freedom. In France around the 1700’s the three estates (Clergy, Nobles, Bourgeoisie/Peasants) faced 3 different kinds of oppression, political, economic, and social oppression. The first estate known as the Clergy or the Catholic Church did not like the enlightenment ideas. The second estate were the nobles. They had 2% of the population but owned 20% of land and paid no taxes.…

the Bible themselves without the Catholic Church forcing their own biblical interpretations onto followers. While Luther began his reform in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin began their own in Switzerland. Ulrich was elected to Zurich’s clergy because he openly rejected celibacy with a woman and six children. After his election Ulrich lead the Protestants in a civil war where he was injured and later executed by the Catholics. Luther and Ulrich only differed on one point of…

worked solidifying the doctrine of Christianity that the clergy could get behind and a message they believed their messiah had intended. However, in Rome, Christianity was a state religion and still fell to the authority of the emperor, there were a few minor conflicts between clergy and state officials on matters of authority though nothing extreme, that is until the Massacre at Thessalonica. The Massacre at Thessalonica is seen by many in the clergy at the time as the flash point between these…

Wollstonecraft disagreed with French writer and Enlightenment thinker Pierre Bayle. He had advocated for a dissociation between morals and religion, claiming that there was no correlation between the two. Wollstonecraft, on the other hand, combined the clergy and monarchy positions in her argument that any man with a high rank and enough power will…

I choose to write about father, John Witherspoon because I heard of him but not a lot. I thought it would be interesting to learn more about our founding father John Witherspoon. Instead of writing about somebody I already know a lot about I can write about somebody I only know a little about. It is important to know your founding father and what they did or accomplished. John Witherspoon came to the burgeoning United States to become president of what would become Princeton University, and he…

Not everyday does one get the pleasure to spend the day with a person some people consider to be the devil. A man so hated by some that he’s depicted as Satan himself. Yet at the same time this man has a following so large it’s considered to be a threat to the Catholic Church in Rome. Who is this controversial man? None other than Martin Luther. The same Luther who had the audacity to nail 95 Theses to the door of our very own Wittenberg Church doors. This was a day with the devil, kind of. To…

The priest Massicotte in Robert Lepage’s Le Confessional on the hand presents the expression of an unfaithful clergy and a “False Father” character as oppose to the ideal priest of Father Logan. The term false father imposes two folds of meanings towards the Massicotte character. Firstly, Massicotte does not have his biological offspring, so that he is not qualified with his patriarchal identity with a family as he has never been a father. Secondly, the false Father refers to both his disloyalty…