Martin Niemöller

Martin Scorsese is amongst the most recognizable names in Hollywood. His success as a director can be attributed to many things, such as his postmodernist style and his amazing cinematography skills, but what his success as a director truly hinges on is the development of characters, and relationships amongst them, within his movies. Like any great director, Scorsese pulls inspiration for his movies from his own life experience, and as an Italian-American growing up in 1940s and 50s New York,…

Philip II of Spain was also called the prudent. He ruled up until his death. He inherited the throne of Spain once his Father, Charles V, left the Holy Roman Empire throne. He received land in Spain, Netherlands, also some possessions in Italy and the new world. But he wasn’t very popular in those places because the only language he could speak was Castilian. When he came to power he worked very hard to overcome the flat in the system. Philip II was strict on the rules of catholicism and…

century monk Martin Luther. Not just our country, but our entire society owes many of our current social, political, and religious views to his actions against the church, which sparked countless revolutions across the globe. In particular, the ideas of freedom of religion and separation of church and state are two of the most important features of today's culture that can be directly tied to Martin Luther’s actions, despite the fact that Luther himself was against this outcome. Martin Luther…

As the Renaissance drew to a close, a new revolution was surfacing throughout Europe. The Scientific Revolution would change the way we look at the physical world and challenge the Ideas of the supreme power of Europe, the Catholic church. Despite this challenge, there were groups who liked and pushed the growth of the sciences. This included many protestant religions and even absolute monarchs. Overall, the Catholic church was very against the sciences. This was especially so with subjects…

18-e Today we want to look at the Decline of the Medieval Church. We will also cover a time that the Catholic Church had three popes at the same time. http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com As the Roman Church assumed spiritual its authority and used it unmercifully against straying church members, and against other bishops. The height of arrogance and assumed authority was in 1054 A.D. when Pope Leo IX issued the Bull of Excommunication against the…

came from a man known as Martin Luther whose contributions greatly impacted thousands if not millions. Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483 and played many crucial roles as a professor, monk, composer and priest. Luther did not love the fundamentals the Roman catholic churches were abiding by and wanted to bring change by identifying these flaws. The lecture presented by Dr. Hollmann in the Oasis art gallery focuses mainly around the significant importance of Martin Luther and his…

presented themselves. This plane should not be purchased due to its crippling cost, potential risk to pilots who are flying this plane, and the availability to repurposing this money into needed programs such as infrastructure. On one hand, Lockheed Martin argues that as the expenditure increases, so does the performance in which in necessary for modern day combat. On the other hand, some experts believe that this plane should not be bought due to the staggering amount of money, which could be…

Wycliff (England 1320-1384) and Hus (Bohemia 1369-1415) believed that the pope did not have the right to worldly power. They defended the bible over the church, saying that the church does not have the highest power but the bible does. Soon enough Martin Luther…

Bristow, William, "Enlightenment", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/enlightenment/ This article is about the enlightenment and the reasoning behind it.It is split up into 3 segments, The science, the politics, and and the “aesthetics”. The first part of the article talks about Locke’s essay and how his thoughts influenced people to start questioning religion. The second part of the article…

The Grand Inquisitor by Fydor Dostoevsky is a parable in his novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The story takes place in Seville, Spain, during the time of the Inquisition, when heretics were routinely burned at the stake. The first time I read The Grand Inquisitor I found it disturbing. There had been, according to Dostoevsky, during the sixteenth century, chatter among the masses about the fact that Christ had not returned, and many questioned if His miracles were real. According to the parable,…