Order of Saint Benedict

From 1095 to the end of the Middle Ages, the call to the Holy Land echoed across Europe as enthusiastic preachers lectured crowds upon wooden platforms, exercising all the tricks of the orator’s trade by coaxing, threatening, and promising in order to rouse up revenge upon there enemy. Preaching was the most effective way to reach the illiterate masses. Although the clergy and nobles of Europe were used to receiving letters begging aid for the Holy Land, for the most part the emotions and hopes…

Fulda in order to recover ancient time manuscripts because in medieval Europe monasteries had been only institution which cared about…

As the 226th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis has established his views and ideologies of the church since before he became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998. Known for his humility, dialogue, openness, and inclusivity, Pope Francis has been under the radar to be a Pope that will take the church in a new direction that best suits the way the world is today. Pope Francis’ vision of the church parallels the meaning of the church’s catholicity and the movement towards World…

know Trappists as “the monks who don't talk”. Thus, it is naturally assumed that they take a vow of Silence. However, the Trappists never actually take an explicit vow of Silence. They take three vows, which have their origin in the Rule of St. Benedict, written in the sixth century: a) A Vow of Stability (loyalty), promising to live the rest of their lives with one monastic community. b) A Vow of Obedience to an Abbot , and c) A Vow of “Conversion of Manners”, the promise to live the…

Boyce-Tillman argues, “Hildegard welds tune and text in the tradition of the woman singer/song-writer for whom the song represents an intensification of her own feeling and beliefs” (34). Her music was directly related to cosmic order, because Hildegard held the belief that singing helped one to enter a deep connection with their very own essence, the Holy Spirit (Boyce-Tillman 28). Thus, it is clear that she thought the soul and the human body were in sync with one another, and…

The Foundation of Qualitative Research in Education states, “In taking an emic approach, a researcher tries to put aside prior theories and assumptions in order to let the participants and data “speak” to them and to allow themes, patterns, and concepts to emerge.” While I interviewed my grandmother, I tried to incorporate the emic approach and kept an open mind and listened to her talk about her religious…

of Jerusalem, which is God’s judgment on Jews. Chrysostom asserted that God foreknows the Jews’ refusals of Christ. He first sent his prophets and Christ to them in order to stop their mouths. Now they have no excuse to blame God for the expulsion. Augustine depicted the entire Jewish nation as cruel persecutors of Stephen, in order to elaborate his ‘garment of love’. Luther even claimed that God’s judgment on Jews,…

According to Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Gandhi, King, and Lanza De Vasto the nonviolence philosophy relationship between nonviolence and society was important for social change. Peter Maurin has been studying philosophy and church history. He was most well-known for documenting the three-point program for the Catholic Worker community. Though nonviolence philosophy was a topic of little recent interest, the strategies have been noted in several times in history and seems to have been well…

something other than heterosexual (Regnerus). Same-sex marriage is not only disruptive to the societal order, it also disrupts the Constitution. The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was an amendment to the Constitution…

1 Nestorius placed a special emphasis on the humanity of Jesus. He began preaching against the title Theotokos or Mother of God, beginning to be used of the Virgin Mary. He distinguished between the logos (“divine nature”) and Christ (the Son, the Lord) as a union of divine nature and human nature. He refused to attribute the human acts and the sufferings of Jesus to the divine nature, arguing that God could not suffer on the cross, as God is omnipotent. Therefore the Virgin Mary, could not be…