Heresy

In Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, the play argues that the church wrongfully wields too much power over society by being the governing body, unopposed in its decisions, and very controlling in many aspects of life. As the government, the church gained more power than it could use ethically. The church not only had authority in religious affairs, but also political authority as well. In a dialogue between Sagredo and Galileo, Sagredo cautions Galileo that in Florence “the monks are in power there”…

Inferno is the first part of an epic poem called Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. He narrates as himself going through Hell guided by a poet name Virgil. Together they go through 9 circles of hell which are Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery. This is taking place in the year of 1300 during the Easter week. Dante describes in detail each thing he sees as he goes along and gets challenged along the way. To explain the torture of the Inferno that…

and his findings contradicted the Bible and the ideas of Aristotle and Plato, so he was chastised by the church. Furthermore, the Pope was viewed as infallible and Galileo's discoveries opposed the beliefs of the Pope, so his ideas were viewed as heresy. New scientific discoveries challenge the establishment…

The clash between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV of France began in the year 1296 over taxation of the French Clergy. Specifically, King Philip IV implemented taxes over the clergy and all other laymen of the French kingdom with a motive to fuel a war with King Edward I of England. Refuting this, Boniface asserted that no cleric was to pay taxes to a king without proper papal consent. If the clergy went against his commands, Boniface threatened excommunication to all who ignored him.…

the Trinity. We will first define the term and examine Scriptural support, then review the initial historical development of the Trinity including heretical errors. We will switch to discussing the post-Schism adoption, further evolution and new heresies relating to the Trinity during that period. And finally, the paper will close with a personal appraisal and application. Trinity Terminology and Scriptural Support To begin, let’s define the Trinity. The word itself is not used in Scripture but…

separated from other writings and placed into the “New Testament” canon. The first defense was from legalism which was quickly handled by Paul as described in the New Testament. This was followed by the church fathers defense against Gnosticism. These heresies needed to be addressed swiftly, especially after Marcion created the first New Testament which took out all…

25, 1521). Now in those days a Diet was less about losing weight and more about weighty decisions. Or to give to be more precise a Diet was "the general assembly of the estates of the former Holy Roman Empire". The Diet of Worms accused Luther of heresy. After deliberations, Luther was asked to recant. After spending the final night of the Diet praying and consulting with his friends, he did not withdraw. Rather, according to…

Mark had recorded everything he heard, just not in the order of Christ’s words or the things he had done (Goodnight, 2017). He did however, record everything truthfully and omitted nothing. Then, another example Ignatius wrote in his book ‘Against Heresies’ was that Matthew wrote the gospels of what he heard, from his own point of view and in doing so he helped build the foundation of the church. He goes on to compare the cherubim angels with four faces, to the four gospels, and the four…

were not believed as threatening. In Albertus’ time, the difference between necromancy and immoral manipulation of magic was deemed by the amount of contact with the devil, but this idea soon changed. The expressed concern resulted in a step toward heresy and apostasy, and also in combining the general ideas of learned magic with common magic laid the foundation for the idea of witchcraft. Witchcraft is considered the performance of magic in contact with demons and entails completely rejecting…

From 1450 all the way into the 18th century, the early modern period is understood and seen as the formation of the Renaissance, many scientific and technological discoveries and reformation. There were many discoveries of new lands, machines and cultures which became one of the main reasons on how society today has improved. The Renaissance started as a cultural movement based on the intellectual basis of its own version of Humanism, where Man is the measure of all things. This idea became…