Heresy

Upon completing Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, a book detailing Solzhenitsyn’s account of the terrors of the Soviet Gulag, I picked up my copy of Krauthammer’s article At Last Zion and read through its seven pages. I am uncertain which text is more terrifying. Grandiose fatalistic vaticinations abound in Krauthammer’s piece. American Jewry, we are told, will decline and ultimately disappear. Later on we read that Israel, the renascent Jewish homeland, is “the last hope.” Though we are afforded…

The Enlightenment period is a perfect example of the Church staying true to its teachings and reminding the world of the limits of science in satisfying man’s yearning for truth. As per usual, people were falling astray from the truth and started to doubt the Church. The views of philosophers, such as Rene Descartes, became popular amongst the people. Rene Descartes was dissatisfied that philosophers before him had been unable to agree on what is true. His solution was to start over and doubt…

The American Revolution is inconceivable in the absence of the context of ideas which have constituted Christianity. There are three main events in history that affected it; the reformation, the two revolutions in England, and the flight to America. The first event is the Protestant Reformation. It began in 1517 because Martin Luther, a Catholic priest in Germany, challenged his church’s ideas and practices. Two of Luther’s main beliefs were “liberty of conscience” and “the creator/redeemer…

In modern society, science, logic, and reason live side-by-side with religious faith. People today have come to terms with scientific facts and what their religion tells them. But was the divide between scientific thinking and blind faith always so clear? Thousands of years ago, the darkness of the Middle Ages in Europe gave light to an age of knowledge and enlightenment, when faith took the backseat to scientific and logical thinking. This new age didn’t just take place immediately, however.…

The early modern period, was a time plagued by large scale witch-hunts and trials across Europe. During this period the classification of a witch changed, and the attitude towards those who practiced witchcraft shifted away from the medieval ideas of white and black magic, to a vision that all magic not given by god, must have come from Satan there therefore be evil. The ways witchcraft occurred, and the ways it was dealt with varied greatly across Europe, as did the peaks of witch activity in…

In this paper I will prove that William Tyndale dedicated his life to the sacred and painstaking work of translating the New Testament and therefore making the bible accessible for all ordinary people to not just read, but understand as his writing style was vivid and eloquent. In spite of the consequences, being labeled a heretic, and ultimately a martyr, Tyndale’s bravery and personal faith in Christ, rather than the sole reliance of the church, demonstrated his determination to provide the…

Pseudonymity is best described as the practice of using forged documents to create new works of writing bearing a deceased writers name, instead of the current writer claiming the credit for the work. Many of Paul’s writings and letters have been said to have not actually been written by Paul himself. Many scholars believe that some letters were creations of Psuedonymity(Harris,2014). The Psuedonymity practice was quite popular among apostolic writers and was widespread among Hellenistic Judaism…

The early councils and fathers distinguished between heresy and orthodoxy with the aim of preserving what they believed as true Christian message. During the middle Ages, a doctrine was established that would safeguard the nature of God and Christianity. In the sixteenth century, reformers stripped away superfluous…

recognizing she could manipulate a certain external charm, but she resented men for causing women to risk becoming examples of haughtiness by valuing aesthetically pleasing characteristics. In a Frankish society becoming increasingly fearful of internal heresy, imitating holy women like Leoba would be just as ideal, but probably not as consistent on the ground. For example, the “conspiracy” against Judith, Louis the Pious’ queen, showed how royalty was vulnerable to accusations of royal…

Jack Lalley Mrs. Cortese World Lit Section-7 4/28/15 Oppression is the unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary. In the book 1984 by George Orwell and in the world today there are a lot of examples of how the government or the top party keeps the population in line. For Big Brother, the leading party of Oceania where 1984 takes place, oppression is a huge tool that they use to keep the power and control over the people. In countries in the world…