Orthodox Church

The Catholic Church began to have vast authority and control over large regions within the known world. Over the last three decades the church acquired large sums of money and real estate from supporters of the church and Christianity. The papal office had grown accustom to this power it had obtained when two reformers arose and took offense to the structure of the church and its administration. These two reformers were John Wycliffe and Jon Hus. Their ideology and influence created regional…

North Africa is similar to the rise of earlier Roman rule; by examining the underlying causes such as the institutional structure of the Christian church before the…

Loundy Silkman The Early Church and Persecutions For many years Christians and pagans coexisted until the emperor Trajan made Christianity illegal- a situation that stayed in effect for 100 years until the rule of Constantine. During the 100 year that Christianity was illegal people met underground in people’s apartments. These early builders of the Church had to meet in secret, yet they served as the cornerstone of Christian worship in Rome. Throughout this time many of the Christians’…

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…

In the introduction to Two Sisters in the Spirit, Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote: “the Church has received the promise of objective sanctity… that her divine mission is guaranteed until the end of time. But this in no way eliminates the obligatory vocation to subjective and personal sanctity, which is indeed the ultimate reason for her whole institutional and objective side.” This paper will delve into how Balthasar and Victoria Harrison, the author of “Personal Identity and Integration: Von…

East and West. According to the documents it would appear as if the Eastern Orthodox had more issues with how the West Catholics ran the church and began inching away from the word then the Catholics had with the Orthodox. The events that leads up to the schism were more important that the events following the schism. The great Schism occurred in 1054 but tensions existed long before that. Before 1054 Catholics and Orthodox had already kind of split geography wise. Catholics were mainly in the…

The article I will be reviewing is Sacrifice and Pagan Belief in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Byzantium by K. W. Harl. The article was published in the Past & Present academic journal in August 1990. The topic is what happened Pagan beliefs and the art of Pagan sacrifice starting around 300AD to around 600AD. K. W. Harl is writing this article to state that the conversion of Pagan beliefs and Pagan sacrifices to Christian beliefs and Christian values was a song, slow process that started in the…

As matter of fact, the different features in each church system creates the disagreement in scripture practices, moral issues, and salvation. Episcopal policy generally rules by Bishops, or priests, was named as church leaders. Majority church decisions based on an autocratic authority structure. Unlike episcopal ruling, Presbyterian rules by elders, who are church leader. Likewise, pastors generally are elders and make all decisions on church. Lastly, congregational is ruled by…

guide or reference for their own investigations) or, ultimately, historians. The procedural, formal style of writing used in the document lends it a certain implicit authority, as does the knowledge that it was written in association with the Catholic Church. Though…

of African descent all around the world, it isn’t just the act of going to church but rather every aspect the religion reaches in individual’s everyday life as well as the community as a whole. The black church and black religion are not synonymous, however. As stated before Black religion describes the practice of people all around the world and with such one would be wrong to assume all black religions are based in a church like institution. Black religion in America has a strong basis in…