Martin Crane

Satirical Article Analysis In the article, “It’s A Sad State Of Affairs When We Can’t Even Refer To Every Holiday As Christmas”, Gerald Crump argues that America has went down the drain with political correctness and inclusivity, by taking away the ability to say, “Merry Christmas”, on any given holiday without being shunned for doing so. Crump’s real statement is for the people who find it hard to say, “Happy Holidays”, which is mainly directed at Christians who are offended and feel their…

Protestant Reformation had an important impact on the society. Martin Luther proposed the secularization of marriage system. The main contents included the enactment of new marriages, the abolition of secret marriages, government-controlled secular courts or government-authorized churches (Mr. Chan＆Mr. Wong, 2013).…

Around the 1500s, the Reformation began, causing a massive uproar throughout all of Europe, and as a result many Catholics converted to Protestantism. One group of the Counter-Reformers who tried to go against this movement were the Jesuits. The Jesuits were mostly active in Europe; however, they also sent missionaries all over the world to places such as India, Brazil, and Ethiopia, to gain attention through their new practice. Counter-Reformation included the Council of Trent, the Spanish…

Martin Luther was born 1483 in Saxony, during the Middle Ages, a period when the general population was mostly illiterate. Only those who were wealthy enough to have tutors or those who were clergy where able to read Latin and Greek. Luther was a professor as well as a monk and priest. Because of his knowledge of the scriptures, he recognized the way the church misled the people. Typical of the Middle Ages, the church often used their knowledge to misrepresent scripture. They collected money for…

In the modern age as a society we recognize multiple religions and their denominations, however if we search the past we may learn that during the 1500’s there was very little religious freedom. During this time religion was taken very seriously as can be expressed by the many publications of religious books, many pilgrimages, as well as an abundance of memberships to voluntary religion societies. It was also at this time that for anyone who was not a firm believer within Roman Catholicism was…

Firstly, the historiography of the subject will be examined. The initial idea that large shifts in attitudes towards the supernatural resulting from the Reformation were presented by Max Weber in his work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Weber argued that the Reformation was part of some great process, where Protestantism rejected sacramental magic and instead brought about a rationalisation and intellectualisation of the world where incorporeal forces no longer existed in…

Primary Analysis over Bartolome de Las Casas Bartolome de Las Cases is a Dominican priest who wishes to protect the Indians of the New World from the brutality afflicted on them from the Spanish. Las Cases sailed to the New World in 1502 and stayed till 1547 before returning to Spain. In this time, he saw the cruelty his nation laid upon the natives in the name of Christianity. When he came back to Spain, he took up the defense of the Indians in a series of debates from 1550-1551 and a year…

Ghostology has a long and vivid history. Ghosts were first heard of in the sixteenth century until now. The word “ghost” originated from an ancient term, “gast”, in the evolved modern German language. As time went on, “ghost” became a significant for the disembodied spirit of a deceased person. The people of the ancient time where culturally brought with the understanding that the soul of a human's being survived bodily death and deserved a kind of sustenance in the afterlife based on the kind…

The thesis of this paper is to discuss the obedience of Martin Luther despite the ridicule and distain of the public. His love and respect for God was unshaken during the reformation despite his feelings towards himself. God created us to serve and worship him. Many individuals have a problem with obedience and keeping Gods commandments, yet they claim to love him. Martin Luther loved God yet, he struggled with his own spirituality. Many people in the church have similar feelings. They want to…

our understanding of the world and how it works. I don’t think it’s surprising then that through our desire to understand all aspects of life, we have created a definition for what no one should be capable of explaining while still living – death. Martin Heidegger believes there are no claims to be made…