Pope Benedict XIV

later when on to become the Queen of England? As far as Henry was concerned, the English have never elected a female ruler. He then thought his dynasty was in trouble. So, what Henry wants is an annulment. He then goes to the pope and asks him to annul the marriage. The Pope refuses to annul the marriage. Henry then calls parliament together and then issues the Act Of Supremacy In 1534. What this is going to do is declare Henry, the Supreme Head of the Church of…

The poem, "Holy Sonnet XIV" was written by John Donne and published in the year of 1633, two years after his death. Donne was born and raised as a Catholic, later becoming an Anglican cleric. The Christian faith is clearly reflected in his writings, and his "Holy Sonnet XIV", is a sinner's prayer to God. Through the utilization of diction use and literary devices such as allusion and imagery, Donne draws the audience into intimately experiencing the speaker's desperation, despair, and devotion…

Furthermore, the novel introduces the theme of Religion in the middle of it’s chapters during a flashback memory of Joe Christmas’s. Joe Christmas was being sent to live with Mr. and Mrs. McEachern as a young boy. Mr. McEachern raises Christmas with his last name instead of his own and teaches him using his strict Calvinist beliefs. Mr. McEachern has no time for fun games and he believes in no individuality. (Themes, Motifs, & Symbols). He teaches the young Joe Christmas religion by putting the…

The Roman basilica was adopted as the standard design for the Christian church during the Early Christian period (ca. 200-500). The term basilica refers to the function of a building as that of a meeting hall. In ancient Rome, basilicas, were large rectangular halls with gable roofs and were used as a site for legal proceedings, army drills and business transactions. The basilica church plan stayed a popular option for church architects throughout Europe. The most popular of the church layouts…

“Out of the Flames: The Remarkable story of a fearless scholar, a fatal heresy, One of the rarest books in the world” is a novel written by Nancy L. Goldstone. The novel is set in the period of the Renaissance, a time of which the old ideas were starting to be questioned and new ideas were being developed. The novel is about a conflict between a man named Michael Servetus and the Roman Catholic Church. Servetus is a man of science and theology, a Renaissance man and a well respected physician.…

Nordic History Most know of the five main Nordic countries- Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. They all took important places in history, and changed our society in ways that some will notice, and some won’t. Really, it’s important to learn about what happened before, in history so it doesn’t repeat right under our noses, so we need to notice these mistakes and victories, and take a look, a very good look, at a history of the Nordic countries. The Viking Age ( approx. 800 - 1050 AD…

The Puritans came to America in the 1630’s, and these Puritans left their mark on their new land, becoming the most dynamic Christian force in the American colonies. Puritanism was a religious reform movement that began within the Church of England in the late sixteenth century. Under persecution from the church and the crown, they sent an fleet of ships in the 30’s and 40’s of the seventeenth century to the northern English colonies in the New World–a migration that laid the foundation for the…

Martin Luther was born during a time where the Catholic Church had much power and reformation was a must and needed for a system that had lost its touch with the teachings of Jesus. Martin Luther became an important figure that is believed to have started the Reformation process of 1517. During this process he challenged, the process for the retribution of sins, sexuality amongst priest and nouns, and the denial of free will. All these contributions to Christianity, psychology and reformation…

did just the opposite. Boys, girls, men and women each took on new roles in their social lives and political lives. New religious practices started to rise, and people adopted to never before seen practices. Before the Protestant Reformation, the Pope ruled in all of Western Christendom with a volume of power. Christendom, also known as the Christian Kingdom is the total of all the nations where…

Seen as two different times in history, the Enlightenment and Romanticist periods are actually very close relatives of each other. During the Enlightenment period, time was ruled with logic and skepticism, always analyzing and looking for an answer through reason whether it is God or other matters. The Romanticism period focused mainly on the artistic, intellectual and literacy ideas of the time. The Romanticism ideas were birthed from the very womb of the Enlightenment therefore having some…