Orthodox Church

The Catholic Church was powerful in the Middle Ages. One reason it was so powerful was the organization of the church. The Roman Catholic was organized into an elaborate hierarchy, with the pope as the head in western Europe, with different levels of leadership among the clergy. Individuals began to organize themselves into apostolic communities. The second reason the church was so powerful was wealth. Most people donated ten percent of their income to the church and the church did not pay…

in their lives. The catholic church was the last institution that survived the fall of Roman Empire (Richardson, Robert 1). The church was outside of feudalism and didn’t take part of it (Richardson, Robert 2). The church and government were very important and powerful in the middle ages. The church was viewed as powerful when the pope crowned Charlemagne as the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. This action symbolized the strong alliance between the government and church. Even though Charlemagne…

Full confession moment: One of my pet peeves are the never-ending lists that tell the church, and most noticeably church pastors and leaders, what they are doing wrong and how to fix it. While I'm sure many of these are well-intentioned, they often come off a people looking for popularity and readers at the expense of the church. They often also ignore the fact the pastoring a church, or being a church leader is hard. Not every chuch can be turned around with your five, or ten suggestions.…

When my mother was forced to leave the United States and go live in Poland I became forlorn. She was deported to Poland because she was missing some necessary documents that were required in order to live in the U.S. Many contrasting thoughts began to evolve and collide in my head. I had a feeling bothering me that my mom moved because of me. I didn’t understand anything because I was only in third grade. My father began to play the role of my mother during my childhood. He would cook, do the…

Booth discarded the conventional method of the church gathering, and began walking and preaching to people in the street. General Booth knew poverty and what it was to be poor, because when his father loses all his money due to misfortune. He had to go find work. Booth went work at a pawnbroker as an apprenticed to help support his family. This deprived him of a formal education. His education was limiting to a private tutor form the Methodist Church, due to the long hours of work with very…

Tension between the different Christian denominations was deeply present during the Protestant Reformation. The tension between different Christian denominations caused violence within city states. Anabaptists, a more radical Protestant religion, made both Catholics and Lutherans upset with the idea of adult baptism. Lutherans and Catholics both hunted the Anabaptist because of this. Adult baptism was made illegal and people were executed for committing adult baptism. The Anabaptists eventually…

Faust is a five-act grand opera by Charles Gounod. It is based on a poem written by Johann Von Goethe who wanted to use his work as the philosophy of human life. Faust originally was a Polish legend about a doctor selling his soul to the devil to experience the pleasures of life. Taking the idea of legend, Goethe transformed it to a poem, which he used to make connections about philosophy and religion. Around this time many literary, musical, and pantomimes were released depicting the legend…

control over schools, universities, and publications” (Newth 9). Which resulted in the Church banning Thomas More's, Galileo's, and Joan of Arc's written work. In 1543 the church had stated that no book may be printed, censored, or traded without their permission, and in 1563, the King had abolished that law (Newth 10). Stating that only he, Charles IX of France could decide which books would be published. The church itself had created a list of books in 1559 that were banned; the list had…

I’ve been informed from my daughter Markela Joseph that she may not be able to receive her sacrament of confirmation because of an activity that begins at 9:30 which I haven’t yet attend because as I recently told you when I signed up and continuously when you ask that I can’t attend many things that are on Sundays because I work on Sundays from 8:00 Am until 6 pm I am a single parent. She attends creole mass with her older sister on Sundays and family members and close family friends. The…

The reformation greatly affected the political state of Europe. After Lutheranism in Germany, many of its princes converted to protestantism. These princes eventually created the Schmalkaldic League against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. All this conflict eventually led to long war the war finally ended by the Peace of Augsburg. This peace treaty led to the Emperor losing power and letting Germany to determine if it was Catholic or Protestant. The reform also affects other parts of Europe…