Council of Jerusalem

Urban II’s call for the crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095 was a large mobilization of both knights as well as clerical and lay noncombatants. However, there were numerous impetuses of both spiritual and non-spiritual nature that motivated western Christians to leave their homes and partake on what was considered an arduous adventure. Western Christians were motivated to go on the First Crusade because of the opportunity to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the…

Salahuddin Al-Ayubi - warlords who admired. Salahuddin al-Ayubi was born in 532 AH 1138 AD in Tarkit that part of the West Bank of the River Tigris, located between Mosul and Baghdad. His father, a governor named Najm bin Shadhin is the nephew of Sultan Nurudin Zenggi, Kurdistan descent who came from Azerbaijan. Aside from being a warlord, he was also a preacher and leader of the non-Muslim leaders of the Arab nation. During his lifetime, he was in a tent more war than live in the palace with…

started by the Pope and a message he spoke to the Council of Claremont. The Crusaders were promised absolution from sin and eternal Glory for their efforts. This to any man is too much to resist, so thousands upon thousands flocked to fight for the cause, with a hope to gain some of their own land on the side. The Crusaders captured many of the mediterranean…

began. I knew how to work this thing only because I watch a lot of Dexter’s Laboratory as a child, therefore I dialed the knob back a few hundreds of years and ended up at the first Buddhist council in China and next a battle with the first Crusades. Some might wonder why would I want to go to a Buddhist council in China, well why wouldn’t a person want to know about that fat guy statue or better known as Siddhartha Gautama, that sits in the Chinese…

in the Middle East. The holy city of Jerusalem was seized by Muslims 457 years prior to the Crusade. The Seljuk Turks, Muslim nomads, conquered…

residing in Jerusalem. The Christians had many reasons for starting the First Crusade which impacted the Christian and Islamic relationship forever. The capture of Jerusalem by the Muslim forces along with the letter sent to Pope Urban II by Emperor Alexius I asking for military aid, collectively, led to the tragic event of the First Crusade. It is important to understand that there were a few events that led to the First Crusade, but ultimately the biggest event was the capture of Jerusalem.…

Identify at least 4 passages that consist of Luke’s editorial summaries by chapter and verse In the very first chapter of Acts, we are given the traditional elements of the resurrection: Jesus speaks to the apostles, Jesus commands them to stay in Jerusalem, and Jesus tells them to wait to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, then Jesus ascends to Heaven. Luke’s editorial summaries operate distinctively within the narrative to offer the reader his personal observations and interpretations. The…

The two sources I have chosen are Fulcher of Chartres’ account of Pope Urban II’s speech at the Council of Clermont in 1095, calling the Christians to crusade, and an extract from Arab politician and chronicler Ibn-al-Qalanisi’s account of the First Crusade, describing the behaviour of the Franks as they seize a town from the Muslims. Fulcher of Chartres was trained as a priest and was appointed as chaplain to Baldwin of Boulogne in 1097 after leaving for crusade in 1096 with the entourage of…

no later than 62AD. Luke was one of Paul’s traveling companions; therefore, he would have had a first had view of the Gospel spreading across the Roman Empire. Finally, Luke’s primary reason for writing is to show the advance of the Gospel from Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, particularly moving from a Jewish audience to Gentiles. Acts is written with an ever-widening circle of the Gospel spreading. This being his purpose, Acts 15 marks a pivotal moment of the early…

Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity is an over-arching study of Christianity beginning with the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70. It is organized around fourteen points considered by author Mark Noll to be the most critical to the formation of Christianity as we know it. This book serves those who are researching the topic in an academic manner or who wish to have a survey of Christian history in totality. This book is not for some who have a casual interest in the growth…