Pope Urban VI

The leaders would usually elect or choose the successor of the last bishop. This decision is not up to the Pope to decide. The church is still tied with the government until the west Frankish kings lost control over the bishoprics to the territorial princes. During the reign of the Capetian dynasty, most of the counsellors of the kings were the bishops. For…

while the word ‘cathedral’ comes from the Latin word ‘cathedra’ which means chair. In England Canterbury Cathedral is the oldest church still in use, and it is considered part of the World Heritage site. In 597 A.D. (Anno Domini; in the year of Lord), Pope Gregory the Great sent St. Augustine…

weary of Catherine and petitioned the pope for permission to end his marriage. The pope refused. After reading some of the reformers writings on the abuses of the Catholic Church and the corrupt practices, he decided that he too would break away from the Catholic Church and form his own church, the Church of England. In this Act of Supremacy, Henry VIII authorized himself not only the King of England, but also the head of the Church of England. The pope furiously complained, but now since…

I am a theist and I believe god does exist which many philosophers like Alfred Russel Wallace, Archbishop Selby, and Sayyid Qutb etc. They try to prove that god is not dead. But I think that the argument for God is dead because there reasons are better even though I think God is not dead. Karl Marx believed that God and religion were running society and was corrupting people. Marx’s opinion was that religion is an illusion that provides reasons and excuses to keep society functioning. Karl Marx…

of Christian warriors as they began the two hundred year battle with the Muslims to take back what they believed was their Holy Land. The Muslims had taken control of this land and put an end to Christian pilgrimages. This incited the furor of Pope Urban II, who declared the war which became known as The Crusades. The long course of this battle greatly affected medieval Europe and its civilization, and continues to stir up conflict and controversy in our world today, as well as dangers to…

This essay was written using characters from the book, “The Ugly American”, with the purpose of comparing and contrasting three characters and describing their successes and failures as they apply to the SO imperatives. I have also tied the characters actions and the use of the SO imperatives into some of my own personal experiences while in Special Forces. Ambassador Gilbert Macwhite was my favorite character and was not hard to choose with his simple understanding that the American way of…

Catholic Reformation This writer thinks the first major event that leads to the Catholic Reformation was the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation started by Luther questioned doctrine, and the practices of the Church. During that time many educated Catholics wanted change the perceived wrongful practices performed by the Church. Furthermore, with the many questions raised and printed by Martin Luther and the printing of the Bible in modern languages such as German and Greek,…

The Age of Exploration and the Protestant Reformation had made great influences on the spread of printing presses throughout Europe. The spread of printing presses influenced writers, explorers and artists. Before the press, everything was expensive and hand written. There were only a few copies of everything. Explorers in the 1400s and 1500s had few, hand drawn, unrealistic maps to base their travel and explorations off of. Although the printing press made major consequences on both exploration…

In today’s world, when people hear the name Martin Luther, they think of a man who nailed the 95 Theses to the church door and created the Protestant church. However, Luther never actually nailed anything to a door, and it was never his intention to create his own church. Actually, several of the matters Luther caused were not his intention. So, what exactly did Luther do to make himself so significant that the world still remembers him today? Obviously, he inspired the creation of the Lutheran…

The reader will find an eloquently written book. The author begins his story with Pope Urban II speech at the council at Clermont in 1095. Author states, Urban II called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam and the need to aid King Alexious I of Byzantine in order to halt the rise of Islam in the Near East. Phillips takes the reader on the crusaders journey that is fraught with successful and dithering Popes, nobles, and commoners who are rarely able to produce a successful military campaign…