History of the Orthodox Church

After the Ottomans conquered Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire ended, Russia became committed to the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Russian rulers inherited the Byzantine legacy. Religion in the 19th century favored Christians over Muslims (“The Key to Conflict, 2014”). This meant that the Russians technically had power over the Ottomans due to the fact that the Russians were Orthodox Christians and the Ottomans were majority Muslim. During the Crimean War, the Ottomans lost many Muslims…

challenges even death in order gain religious freedom. The point of the reformation was to make Christianity right, to bring it back to its pure origins. Their name is derived from them wanting to purify the church. The Puritans have been persecuted for accusing their King of failing to cleanse the Church of Catholic rituals, and were hounded as radicals for their forbear of the Protestant reform. The origins of Puritanism are to be found in the early stages of the English Reformation. The name…

The year is 1095 and the territory of the Muslim Empire is expanding into the holy land, the Roman Catholic Church sees this and launches one of the most famous string of wars in world history, the Crusades. The main objective of the Crusades was to retake the holy land in the Middle-East. The Crusades were a series of holy wars which began in 1095 when Pope Urban II made a plea to retake Jerusalem and the holy lands. In total there were eight Crusades lasting around 196 years, however, the last…

Feminist theology views the Christian faith from a viewpoint of a commitment to justice for females. Two additional features are added onto Christian theology to make up feminist theology. One is the assumption that theology has not always been accurate due to ongoing sexism in the tradition. Social views such as patriarchy and androcentrism have put men before women and therefore failed to deliver justice to females. The second feature is a commitment to emphasize women’s experience while…

The Reformation was a religious revolution that was held in Western church in the 16th century. The most important leaders were Martin Luther and John Calvin. The reformation had political, economic and social effects, thus the reformation was the underlying foundation for the founding of Protestantism. Protestantism is one of the three major branches of christianity. Reformation was introduced mainly to give talks about issues that negatively affected Catholicism, along with others supporting…

As this movement grew, many in Europe began to believe that change was good and that by “cleaning and sharpening the tools of antiquity”, they too would leave their mark on history (Brians, 2000). By the 17th Century, humanists were spreading the term “enlightenment” and promoting that changes in society were only to be made through the ideas of logic and reason combined with common sense and observation. During this time,…

Throughout history people have turned to sacred beliefs for sense of well-being, gathering with others whom share their interests, or simply for a guided way of life to live by. Some of the world cultures have rituals, sacred grounds, even objects of common use to represent the practices in which they hold so dearly, for the majority of cultures, religion, typically with a worshiped deity, if not more than one, and a literary central religious text to live by, is how the rest of the religious…

Background: The history of apologetics in Christianity Origins Apologetics is the defense of Christianity with the help of sacred books, with the data of science and philosophy, with the provisions of jurisprudence against criticism and actions by those in power. Apologetics is always in the circle of ideas and ideas of the century. It is designed to expose pseudoscientific and philosophical attacks on Christianity and to promote the mastery of religious ideas by new scientific discoveries,…

My choice for my second paper was the ecclesiology of Vatican II and the book you assigned me was Rediscovering Vatican II: The Church in the Making by Richard R. Gaillardetz. At the publishing of the book it had been forty years since the close of Vatican II and the publisher thought it would be a great idea to publish books that make the teachings of the sixteen documents more accessible to Catholics. This book focuses on three of the documents, you could say one major, Lumen Gentium, and two…

Byzantine art was being created from the 6th century all the way until the 15th. Knowing a little history on this time period will help us better understand the art that was created. Byzantinism came from a split in the Roman empire. Byzantine art was inspired by classical Roman art, even though they spoke Greek. Orthodox Christianity was very prevalent, and it spread quickly through art. Churches were very important to them, and much time and thought were put into the creation of these sacred…