Council of Jerusalem

Monarchy was the earliest form of government for the Roman city-state. Their Kings governed in consultation with an assembly made of the most prominent and wealthiest families of Rome called the patricians and formed a privileged social group called the plebians (citizens that was allowed to vote). After the death of each King, the patrician assembly would choose his successor. Later after the Etruscan King was overthrown, the Romans founded the Roman Republic. The republic differ from the…

1, Duke of Normandy and Herleva, a local tanner woman. Although he was illegitimate, he was born and raised to be the future Duke of Normandy, however, his ascension occurred earlier than expected as his father died on his return pilgrimage from Jerusalem when William was only seven years old. Due to his illegitimacy and the fact that he was so young, William’s right to rule was often challenged as barons fought with both violence and corruption to overthrow him resulting in many attempts on his…

stories were marketing, they enraged the Christians and affected the public opinion of the Turks throughout the community. In 1095 Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade to regain the Holy Land. He did this during his most famous speech at the Council of Clermont he encouraged Christians to take up the cross and fight for a cause that would not only get them rewarded spiritually but also materially. In one version of his speech he stated “…it is less wicked to brandish your sword against…

Palestine out of the control of the Muslim Turks. This was the start of what would become known as the Crusades. After the first crusade, many more occurred as well. The Third Crusade resulted from the Muslim ruler Saladin’s efforts to recapture Jerusalem from the crusaders. He was unable to defeat the armies led by England’s King Richard I, thus, causing the loss of much of the land he had initially conquered.…

The word holocaust comes from the Greek language and means to sacrifice by fire, this is the fate that some of the holocaust victims suffered. The Holocaust or Final Solution was the inhumane killing of over 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 minorities between January 30, 1933-May 8, 1945. The Holocaust took place in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II. The anti-semitism had been going on in Europe way before the Holocaust was even thought of , the hate for Jews comes from the ideas of…

First, he predicted the destruction of Jerusalem in ‘Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. ’ (Barclay, 1975, 13:8). Jesus predicted the catastrophe of holy city, and realized this becomes true eventually. After seven decades later, Jerusalem was captured, the temple was destroyed and many terrifying things were consequential taken place (Barclay, 1975…

Thirteen turning points are described in the book as: 1-In the “Fall of Jerusalem (70), “Noll looks at the background of the fall of the great city, to see the way the Church, marginalized the growth of Christianity. 2-The “Council of Nicaea (325),” Christianity becomes the defatco religion of Europe that marks the turning point of a persecuted religious movement to a popular institutionalized religion. 3-In the “Council (451),” as the church gets threatened with disunity and deep controversy…

church fathers that is, the Patristic Period ran from 100-451 C.E. where church fathers established the theological foundation of the Christian faith. By the fourth century five patriarchates,centers for religious administration had been developed. Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople all were located in the East, leading to a dominance over the West with only Rome. As a result of the Patristic period being a formative period of the christian church many developments arose from the…

Sawdust. He was the editor of the Reformed Journal and has served on many editorial boards. In 2007, Mouw was given the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life by Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served on many councils and boards that focus on theology and evangelism. Mouw has been very involved at Fuller Theological Seminary for many years. After obtaining the position as the fourth President at this seminary, serving for twenty years, he returned to…

In the dream, he saw an angel of the Lord who told him, ‘Joseph! Joseph! Be not afraid to take Mary as your wife because the child she is carrying is the Son of God.’ Joseph immediately got up out of bed and he thought of the dream. He decided to marry Mary. The two got happily married. It was now approaching nine months of birth and Caesar Augustus made a decree that all people from the town of Bethlehem had to return there to be taxed. So, Joseph being from Bethlehem and his wife took a…