Council of Jerusalem

“Both Acts 15 and Galatians 2:1-10 detail a meeting in Jerusalem. Although they are not identical, the overwhelming similarities between the two accounts suggest that both passages are indeed descriptions of the same event.” The last statement of Paul being asked by James, Cephas, and John “to remember the poor” (Gal. 2:10) might be key to understanding that the event he is describing is similar to the event of the “Jerusalem Council” in Acts 15. The eastern provinces of the Roman Empire…

for all Gentiles salivation. These pre-conditions are all males must be circumcised and should obey the Law of Moses’ (V.5). This group were not sent by Jerusalem church as Carter and others describes “they were sent by this Judeo-Christian party to Antioch to propagate their doctrine through the falsely claimed to have been sent by the Jerusalem apostles is equally evident.” The Pharisees group claim show that for Gentiles believers no room for salivation by faith alone unless first they…

reasons behind the creation of the military orders, one being the role of the church in legitimizing combat. The fact that the Church sacralized warfare, and granted absolution of sin, knights protecting the pilgrims during the trek from Jaffa to Jerusalem were a natural response. According to Hayes, the military orders growth was “fostered by a theological shift in attitude of…

followers of the new message of Jesus; they were a dedicated and enthusiastic group devoted to communal living who shared everything with each other for the common good. 2. James the Just of Jerusalem was the leader of the new religion in Jerusalem. Paul was the leader of the new religion outside of Jerusalem. 3. Saul was a young Jew, that considered himself the new religions worst enemy. He was born in Tarsus, and was a champion of Jewish orthodoxy and a persecutor of the new Jesus heresy. As…

Pope Urban II Council of Clermont 1095-9 Pope Urban II was in France, his native land, when he called the first crusade in the closing of the Council of Clermont 1095 on the 27th of November . It is a rare occasion when the pope leaves Italy, so this was a momentous time in itself already. Pope Urban II sanctioned the crusade because he had received a letter from Alexios I Komnenos whom is the Byzantine emperor from the Eastern Christendom pleading for help because the Turks were advancing…

Another approach that Urban II used in his speech at the Council of Clermont to compel them to join the crusade, was to tell them that they would receive forgiveness of sins by the power invested in him, as pope. “Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned” (The First Crusade). Pope Urban II believed that he had the power, given to him by God, to forgive sins. There were Christians who realized that they were sinners, and that by fighting in the Crusade, they…

In 1095 at the Council of Clermont in France, Pope Urban II gave a speech that would affect the church for many years to come. He declared that church was going to try and get the Holy Land back from the Seljuk Turks in battles that would be known as the Crusades. Since the mid-seventh century, the Muslims had controlled the Holy Land and had prevented Catholics from entering Jerusalem to make pilgrimages. The Catholics saw gaining the Holy Land back as a sacred duty because the Muslims were…

Let’s look at each of these factors in turn. In the case of motivation by religion, some historians make the point that Pope Urban II indicated at the Council of Clermont in 1095 that crusaders would be coming to the aid of Christians in the Byzantine Empire. He reported in his speech that the people of Persia, who were actually Turks and not Persians, had taken so much land from the Greek empire that it…

The 40th chapter of Isaiah is difficult to interpret because of the ambiguity of the text. This chapter has caused numerous scholarly discussion leading to many different interpretations of the chapter. This paper will focus on verses one through eleven, answering questions regarding some of the difficulties of the text. A few questions that will be addressed are the following: Who is the speaker of the text? Is there multiple speakers in this passage? What is the main point of the message? Who…

II, who showed significant care for his religion. Christians during the Middle Ages always wished to have control over their holy city of Jerusalem, where Jesus had lived his whole life in. They took their religion, Christianity, seriously, and they would do anything to take it back. But another reason why Christians wanted to take back Jerusalem was because Christians were believed to be forgiven for their sins if they took back the holy city. Being forgiven for your sins was supposedly…