Excommunication

Martin Luther single handedly started the Reformation and lead a new start for people everywhere. He is still considered one of the most influential person today, even after so many years. Because of him more people got an education and stood up for what they believed in. Even when he was young he realized that the church was wrong. His ideals greatly differed from those of the church so he broke away and started his own religion. Because of the differences he ended up changing religion and the…

The Fourth Lateran Council, as called by Pope Innocent III (1198-1216), was conducted on April 19, 1215. This council is sometimes referred to as the “Great Council” as over nine-hundred abbots and over four-hundred bishops attended the event at the Lateran palace in Rome. Some of these clergy men were “coming from as far afield as the Latin empire of Constantinople and crusader-held territories in the Levant (MP p. 139)” due to the importance of the event. The council, or synod as it sometimes…

The Roman Empire in the Middle Ages is predominantly known for its religious reforms and impact on the history of the religious community as a whole. However most of the standards and ideals that are so strongly relied upon from this era descend from the earlier pre-christian Roman Empire. One of the first major initiatives in the religious aspect of the Roman Empire is the signing of the Edict of Milan by Emperor Constantine the Great in the West and Licinius Augustus in the East. The Edict of…

Martin Luther is most publically known for starting the Protestant Reformation. His written document, “The Ninety-Five Theses,” justified his disagreement with the Catholic Church. Luther was justified in attacking the Catholic Church because it was “corrupt” with indulgence at the time, Christians were being led astray by paid Christian attractions, and began to corrupt those within the Church as well. The Catholic Church in the 16th century, gave indulgences to sinners as a way to physically…

The Protestant Reformation started in the sixteenth century by individuals who felt that the traditional Catholic Church had gone against Christianity’s basic teachings. Many felt that the church had too much power over their followers and were using this power to control others and gather money. The church had been charging for indulgences, or forgiveness of sins, which was seen as fraud and greed in many individuals’ eyes. Some of the leaders in this reformation where Martin Luther and John…

An individual's action always has a consequence where they take on the responsibility for it. Whether or not an individual's action is right or wrong they have the right and responsibility to question the judgement they have been given. This type of issue is evident in things like a Totalitarianism and in events like the Nazi Book Burning. This type of things occur because people fear to question authorities and it is evident in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451 which is a dystopian…

The standard disciplines in old Greek and Roman social orders were passing, Bondage, mutilation, detainment, or excommunication. A few disciplines were particularly original. In aged Rome, for instance, an individual who killed a nearby relative was encased in a sack with a chicken, a snake, a dog, and a monkey, and then thrown into the ocean. The matured orders were…

Being alone with your thoughts can be a good and bad thing it can be our safe haven or our personal hell. Damon Knight, writer, editor, critic and anthologist, lets us explore nonexistent worlds of the future. The short story “The Country of the Kind” is about an isolated man who is against the world. Elizabeth Lowell, a New York Times bestseller author says, “Some of us aren’t meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own…

of the people, “freeing Christians from a burdensome Catholic Religious system” (Mullet, “Martin Luther” 1). Luther was a highly educated monk, who later challenged the Roman papacy with his 95 theses, which in return, would then result in his excommunication from the church. His actions and writings were immensely influential at the time, painting him as the face for the reformation. "Martin Luther was born in 1483" to a father who was a peasant farmer but rose in…

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