Pope Celestine V

When people think of the most explicit acts of human cruelty in history, many people’s first thoughts jump to the holocaust, Aztec sacrifices, or the European conquest of the Americas. However, an event that doesn’t get enough consideration in this gruesome contest is the Spanish Inquisition. Hundreds of thousands of Protestants, atheists, and other non-believers were brutally tortured and killed, while millions more were persecuted. This horrific event was the result of the Catholic Church’s…

Veronica Fogo Behan Latin I 04/26/2017 The Growth of Christianity in Ancient Rome Christianity impacted ancient Rome drastically, changing their whole system of beliefs and morals. Before the spread of Christianity, Romans worshiped a large variety of gods and goddesses, many having been adopted from the Greeks. They believed that if they offered sacrifices to their gods, that they would be repaid with service. In 312 AD, the Emperor Constantine had a vision that stated that if he followed the…

Legal Measures/Imperial patronage to Christianity: As stated before, during Constantine's time as Emperor the benefits of imperial patronage to the christian community, and church were enormous. Most important is that Constantine gave signal to a kind of change in regime that would end up reaching down, and bringing up the Christian church as a force not to be trifled with in the imperial society as well as with the largely pagan Roman state. Then it becomes a question as to what kind of…

The diversity of baroque is brought out by several factors, political, religious, and social being the major ones. Religion is believed to be the source of this era as a result of the Catholic Church requiring new artistic work. The art used in the church was supposed to draw individuals back to church and reinstate their faith. The visual arts played a significant role in guiding the faithful. For it to be transparent to the illiterate, art had to be powerful, clear and persuasive.…

The main cause of the Thirty Years' War, which lasted from 1618 to 1648, was the rising religious and political tensions between the Roman Catholics and the Protestant Christians. The end of the Thirty Years' War created a number of significant consequences and changed the religious, social, and political ways of Western Europe. The ending of this war created the end of the Holy Roman Empire and the Hapsburg's falling out of power. There were also religious divisions in the country which is very…

that contributed to the development of Protestantism were John Wycliffe who criticized the indulgences, the worship of saints, and the moral standards of Catholic priests; Jan Hus who stated that Christ was the only head of the Church and not the Pope; Martin Luther who taught that the salvation could not be earned by the good deeds; John Calvin who stressed on the significance of the scripture for the Church and the necessity of a moral discipline in the community; etc. (Encyclopedia…

Yesterday at Notre Dame Cathedral, Eastern Synod Lutheran Bishop Michael Pryse and I took part in a service commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Catholics and Lutheran adherents and others from a variety of Christian denominations joined us. The service included mixed choirs supported by the Basilica’s powerful organ, sincere prayers for Christian unity, and the tangible witness of being together in prayer. In our own way, we were living out ourselves the prayer of…

interpretation and the unfolding of history flowed from a grave misunderstanding of the Trinity’s unity. His misunderstanding was based on the inappropriate use of the philosophical principle of univocity. This difficulty is but one of the many reasons that Pope Innocent III called the Forth Lateran Council. Innocent III was the exemplar of papal monarchy, a mover and shaker of medieval culture that took full advantage of the power invested to him in his office as Bishop of Rome. After eighteen…

In my opinion the key contributions of Lutheranism are the principals that spurred the reformation, allowance of religious skepticism, and the inclusion of all people in the church, and opening the doors for other protestant churches to evolve. I believe these are true contributions of Lutheranism because they are still in existence today and have been the most influential in my life through my experience both in attending Lutheran services but also my Baptist church back home. When Luther…

social structure of feudalism, the only power over the king’s authority was the Catholic Church. The decisions taken by the Church were not questioned by the civilians because they were to believe that these were messages sent by God directly to the Pope. Medieval times were characterized by the lack of authority and the power local lords had to apply the law among their civilians. “Feudalism was not only a system…