Early Christianity

Emperor Constantine declared Christianity and its church legal status in the Roman Empire. He did this because he had a vision during battle that if he put a Christian symbol on his shield he would come victories. Constantine did end up winning and out of respect or maybe obligation he…

This society’s religion evolved from a polytheist religion to Christianity over the course of more than a thousand years. The first polytheist god is Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. On the site of The Temple of Aphrodite that there is a 7C BCE wooden temple to this goddess, demonstrating the site’s only connection to Mesopotamia. Demonstrated in “Inana’s Descent to the Nether World”, the Mesopotamians believe that Ishtar ascended down to the underworld and her time there represented winter.…

household asleep, my handmaids too….My body is here at hand, Your each wish to fulfill; Your servant to command I am and shall be still.” The lady tries to have him but Gawain refuses to sleep with her. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are based on Christianity but it was known that the story had Pagan rituals to be able to coexist with the people and the transition of religions wouldn’t be so big. They developed having a Christmas tree in the story and having Christ on a cross, also celebrate…

The Jewish people have an expansive and troubled history. Unlike being a Christian or Muslim, being Jewish is not simply a matter of religious beliefs. Being Jewish is an ethnic identity that does not necessarily mean a person follows the Jewish faith. Jews for many years had no nation of their own, and so they were disseminated among many other different people and nations. After Expulsion indicates the difficulties the Jewish people went through not only with non-Jews, but also within the ties…

Martin Luther started a religious reform with the intent to purify Christianity in the early 1500s, but his actions brought about an unintended social revolution. As the leader of the Reformation, he needed to take responsibility for what his movement caused. Yet, despite what his Catholic critics said, Luther never deviated from his support of the nobility, and was never a hypocrite in his views. His writings and teachings consistently defended the nobility’s power. In his Ninety-Five Theses,…

Christianity did not just come out of nowhere, it developed throughout hundreds of years. Thanks to the combined efforts Paul, James, Peter, Jesus’s followers, and all of the Jews and Gentiles, this religion has been formed from the teachings of Jesus Christ. He only wanted to reform the religion of Judaism, but throughout several disputes, Christianity became its very own religion. Throughout the life of Jesus Christ, he was very much human just like us. Jesus, just as we were born, was born…

and serve(s) as a medium in which evolving self-understandings of community can be expressed” (JCM 157). Though these monotheistic religions are unified under this common objective, rituals and worship served a variety of purposes in ancient times. Early Levitical and Deuteronomical texts in the Torah detail the exact ways in which sin was to be atoned for…

In the country we live in today, religious liberty is very prominent. To my understanding, today no is forced to abide by a particular religion. The participation in religion solely relies on the choice of the individual. However, centuries ago, religious freedom was looked down upon. There are numerous events that took place that resulted in the branches of other denominations and religious liberty. British Colonist settled on the Eastern seaboard of America. It was common that in the English…

I understand to do theology is to think systematically about the fundamental ideas of Christianity. It is an intellectual reflection on the act, content and implications of the Christian faith. Theology also helps me to better understand Christian doctrine, to make comparisons between Christianity and other religions, to defend Christianity against objections and criticism and to draw on the resources of the Christian tradition to address contemporary situation. I note that it is impossible…

The most important period in the 16-18 century was the reformation because it had the most impact on the world. The reformation was the most important period over scientific revolution, and explorers because even though there were many more important events that occurred, Jesus Christ, Roman Catholic Church, Martin Luther, John Calvin, were the main occupants. Jesus Christ helped provide new religious ideas that Martin Luther later changed. There were many influential events from religious…