Indulgence

In the chapter “Excerpts from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber (1905)”, it outlines the ascetic Protestantism and analyzes the role Protestants more specifically Calvinism played in forming a capitalist society noting that religion played a crucial role in the formation of capitalist society. Key concepts: capitalism, Protestantism asceticism, history In “Chapter IV, The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism” historically, there have been four major forms of…

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…

Although Germany’s gross domestic product remains high due to successful exports and a large population of producers and consumers, German spending trends reflect a transition away from materialism. This trend has historical roots, such as the Nazi era, when leaders promoted a similar mentality of abstaining from material luxuries in order to eliminate the concern of selfishness. Instead, Nazi leaders encouraged citizens to value their nation above all else. After enduring various forms of…

In his nostalgic poem “Blackberries”, Yusef Komunyakka allows the reader to better connect with the speaker’s problems by the use of first person point of view. By allowing the young boy to express his stream of conscious directly to those listening to the poem, we get an intimate glimpse at his transition from innocence. The poem begins with the boy recalling his time spent picking wild blackberries. He enjoys this act, and how it leaves his hands stained “like a printers/Or a thief’s before…

The Ancient Greeks had a moral code known as the 8 evil thoughts. The indulgence of these thoughts were believed to degrade one’s humanity. “The Cyclops” is the 4th episode of The Odyssey in which the narrator Odysseus and his men steal from the cyclops known as Polyphemus. Polyphemus then begins to eat some of them out of rage, and Odysseus conceives a plan in which Polyphemus is left blind and enraged. Odysseus demonstrates 2 of the 8 evil thoughts known as Hyperephania and Kenodoxia, also…

grievances with the Church and his solutions to the problems he saw, of which a prominent one was the system of indulgences. Indulgences were sold by the Church to people to absolve them of their sins. Luther viewed these absolutions as antithetical to the true way of being a Christian. His theories taught that faith alone was the way to salvation and that external measures like indulgences were not useful to good Christians. While this view formed the basis for his broad activism and acclaim,…

Marie de Médicis). Being in the money business, the Medici’s honed to a science making money using a complicated system of exchange (pawning) They paid the RC 2,000 florins a year for a special “license” that absolved them of this serious sin. Indulgences are defined as, “a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution.” A “licence” is also a “grant”, one that…

During the Reformation many groups had their own achievements they wanted to be accomplished. The Council of Trent and The Roman Inquisition were two of the most important groups. They both had goals they wanted to be reached and went through trials and tribulations to have these goals achieved. To begin with The Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento northern Italy. The Council of Trent was an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. It was promoted by the Protestant…

The Protestant Reformation was a time in which change ran rampant throughout Europe, both religiously and politically. The idea that rather than there being no salvation outside the Church, and that the way to salvation was merely through the hierarchy of the church, or that rather than seeking God through a "father confessor" one could seek him through prayer instead, became a big challenge on the Roman Catholic Church, one that seemed to be headed by one particular man... Martin Luther. Martin…

the traditional accounts, Siddhartha follows an ascetic life for six years. The answers he first found gave him temporary bliss, but not permanent peace, he went off in his own direction before deciding that a middle path between mortification and indulgence of the body will provide the best hope of achieving…