Evangelical Catholic

Flannery O’Conner resided in Milledgeville, Georgia from 1938 to 1964. Since her death, the city of Milledgeville has, like most cities, changed and adapted to fit with its worldly surroundings. Some of O’Conner’s most famous works bring forth an insight into what religion was like in Milledgeville during her time there. Her use of what readers assume to be true stories, allows the reader to experience the older culture of Milledgeville. A more recent writer, Alice Walker, also lived in the…

This assignment led me to a Catholic funeral. I attended this service in the town I live in. The service was for the grandmother of one of my youth in my youth group. Many of the group attended and for most of us it was quite different than anything we had been to before. I attend a Christian Church. I will be honest I had many reservation about attending this service and also had many questions after this service. As I approached the Church it was quite beautiful. I loved the stain glass…

With the end of the 14th century came a rediscovery of philosophy, sciences and arts that pushed Europe out of the dark ages (Oxtoby, 190). This push led to the Humanism movements that “was met with a push toward internal reform from within the Church itself. Together, these external and internal forces for change led to the schism within Western Christianity… known as the Protestant Reformation” (190). Oxtoby begins his discussion of the Protestant Reformation with a broad overview of the…

denominations. All throughout the past there have been many new denominations created with different ideas of what they believe. By recent counts there are known to be over two thousand denominations throughout the United States alone. The end of the Catholic Church was in the division of 1054, with this sudden split of the church is where and how these new denominations started to come about. A large amount of the denominations that began sometime in that period are not even around, but many of…

Dame in 2006, coming from Wheaton College in Illinois where he served for 27 years. His educational background includes a bachelor’s in English from Wheaton College, three Masters Degrees from University of Iowa in Comparative Literature, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Vanderbilt University, both in History of Christianity. Lastly, he received his Ph.D. in History of Christianity from Vanderbilt University in 1975. His honors include a national endowment for the humanities and election…

religious traditions equally, and the Catholics appear to have fared better than other religions in terms of affiliation. However, the trend in association with the Catholic Church overlooks important changes in American Catholicism, including declining participation among millennials and increasing presence of a non-white immigrant population. The Catholic Church in America is fashioned by global socio cultural trends. In addition, its male leadership enforces Catholic doctrine to the young,…

Church Comparison For this spiritual growth project, I attended three fairly different Churches. For the first, I attended CCF, which is a non-denominational evangelical Church. The second was First Presbyterian Church of Siloam Springs, a Presbyterian Church USA member. Finally, I went to St. Mary’s Catholic Church, which is under the Diocese of Little Rock, which in turn reports to Rome. Growing up, I have been a part of several Churches, so I really did not have any expectations of what any…

or just flat out tension. In one of the bigger disputes of religion in European history, Martin Luther and John Calvin vs. the Catholic Church, there was no clear winner or loser towards the beginning, once the two men proposed their ideas of why the Catholic Church wasn’t to be followed blindly. Their unique ideas opened the eyes of the people of Europe, and the Catholic Church was not happy about that. They knew they had to do something to stop the claims that were coming from both these…

He made Adam first, and then made Eve from Adam's rib. This order of creation subordinates wives to their husbands in marriage, and women to men in the church. As an act of submission to their Creator women are commanded to submit to their husbands and to male leadership in the church. Women are not allowed to teach or have authority over men in any formal capacity in the church." 5 "Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their…

He is most notably known for sparking the Protestant Reformation and breaking apart the “Holy” Catholic Church. His main teachings were founded in the New Testament and can be summarized in verses such as Ephesians 2:8-9. It says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest…