Heresy

Perhaps the most obvious display of the religious tension during the Renaissance is the continuous war waged between Catholicism and Protestantism. Fueled first by Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Henry’s children, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I continued to fight the same battle long after the death of their father. Mary Tudor, like her mother Catherine of Aragon, was a devout Catholic. Even when Anne Boleyn convinced Henry to declare Protestantism the religion of the realm, Mary…

Sweeping the nations is a plague called The bird flu. This disease is extremely dangerous and is rapidly spreading uncontrollably. At the rate this plague is spreading now, 50% of the world’s population will be dead in a matter of months! The bird flu is also immensely contagious. Due to air travel, the bird flu can become intercontinental in only a few hours. This plague has done damage, is doing damage, and will continue to do more damage unless it is stopped. Power in the government is…

church and state, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and expression. He born when the churches were dominant and ruled the society. Their power was to the extent that they punished any sort of heresies by death. So, there were many crimes - especially religious one - which were punishable by the capital punishment. Having this in mind, he accused his current French criminal system to be inhumane and immoral and assumed it as a religious system…

It was the year of 1431. Joan was sentenced for heresy. “It had been difficult to know what to do with Joan once her miracles had begun to fade. If God had not withdrawn His favor from her completely - which was surely the message of her capture...It was a matter of regret…” (Castor 160) Is it really true? That after the miracle she had begun to see only what she wanted to see and lost track of the true point? Is it true that she was so consumed with trying to complete the missions that God…

The Scarlet Ibis was a story about a boy who had a brother with a disability. I enjoyed many parts of the story. When the boy was born his brother named him Doodle because he crawled backwards. Everyone thought at first that the boy was going to die except for Aunt Nicey she said “He would live because he was born in a caul and cauls were made from Jesus’s nightgown.” . Doodle did not die, instead his brother decided to make him stronger. Everyday he would take him and work with him on learning…

Pride is good in moderation, but in excessive amounts, it could lead to tragedy in the lives of those in its path. “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is a short story about a boy and his unhealthy relationship with his brother Doodle. Throughout the course of the story, narrator treats Doodle harshly until one day, he was no longer there. One apparent theme in “The Scarlet Ibis” is too much pride can lead to regret, which is shown by the consequences of the narrator’s actions. In the story, the…

Mary I Tudor is born into the Catholic household of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon on February 18th, 1516. She is the only child of this marriage to survive infancy, and thus she is treated with great reverence from a young age. Mary is raised as a devout Catholic by her mother Catherine, and is extensively tutored in a diverse array of subjects. Mary’s diverse tutelage is due in part to her mother 's misfortune in not being able to produce a male heir. Catherine realizes that…

John Hus was a Bohemian religious reformer and martyr. His name comes from the village of Husinec where he was born. Huss was the forerunner of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. He was a national hero whose influence is still felt in the Czech Republic. Huss was born into a peasant family and graduated from the University of Prague (Charles University). He began lecturing at the university in 1398 and served as rector twice. Huss was ordained a priest in 1400. At this time many…

evil threat, at war with God’s kingdom so as to establish his own demonic realm. Yet on the other, God had ultimate control over the world, including Satan and his forces of evil; to argue otherwise was to adopt a dualist position and fall into the heresy of Manicheanism. Hence, in Protestant ideology, the Devil, and thus the witch, could only carry out evil acts because God allowed them to, as He ultimately “rule[d] ouer Deuils…[and]…his instruments, Witches and Sorcerers”. That the witch…

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church is the most well-known religious leader in the world today. The office of the Pope was instituted early in the history of the Church. The Papacy was established much later. The leader of the church in Rome was a Bishop as was customary in the early church. In its origin the office of the Pope was not unlike any other office in church leadership, the term was not used exclusively at the church in Rome nor did it convey any special authority not available to…