Protestant Ascendancy

Introduction The history and documentation of the Protestant Reformation was described as a widespread theological revolt in Europe, against the abuses and totalitarian control of the Roman Catholic Church. There were three reformers who were identified in support of the cause. Martin Luther in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, and John Calvin in France. These men stood by their beliefs and protested various unbiblical practices of the Catholic Church. The men were trying to get the…

During the times of the old Catholic Church, people were caught up in the ways of thinking that they deemed appropriate for the time. These ways were a narrow and negative way of thinking, only promoting the Catholic religion, as the only religion of any importance, which would have meant many members of society, did not feel valued. But as time went on, the world changed but the ways of the Catholic Church did not. Pope Paul the sixth, a significant member of the Vatican II during the 1962 to…

This demonstrated that the government did not grant Protestants and Jews the same freedom to their religion that Catholics had. This inequality would become one of the issues associated with the Catholic Church in the years leading up to the Revolution. In November 1787, the government of Louis XVI, proposed…

Gabriel Richard was born in La Ville de Saintes, France on October 15, 1767. When he was 17 he entered the seminary in Angers, France. He went to school at the College in Saintes and would later attend the Sulpician seminaries in Angers and Issy. He would join the Sulpicians in 1790 and was ordained a priest in 1791. At the start he would teach mathematics at the Robertins College in Paris, but later would be forced to flee due to the French Revolution in 1792. He came over to the country by…

“Look at this place, all of you,” Schäffer said to the others, observing the architecture at the front part of the school, “And examine the wonder of this place. Splendid as it is, every one of us can safely agree that it is gleaming beacon to one of those days when the Children’s Paradise was just beginning to make its appearance in the shape as it is to this day. Someday, and I am not sure when, but when the time will come for us to see the Children’s Paradise soaring higher than it ever had,…

Imagine a world where people wait months for a book, and the prices are hundreds of dollars! This does not happen thanks to Johann Gutenberg’s invention, the printing press.1 This invention, created in the Renaissance Period, has impacted history in many ways. The name Renaissance means rebirth.2 This period began in Italy immediately following the Black Death and trade with the East. This was a time when artists, painters, sculptors, and architects thrived.3 People also began to ask…

Ahmad Young Professor Anna Higgins American Literature 2301; 9:30AM 2 March 2016 Exam One: Subjective Portion The Renaissance Period in Europe was from 1485-1660. During this time period there was a rising group of middle class merchants. This is also during the infamous time when Christopher Columbus discovered the “New World” and started the massive migration to the Americas. This period will go down as one of the biggest culture movements, that this world has seen. During the Renaissance…

Do you ever wonder how man came to be? How the world changed today? During the Middle Ages, the time period preceding the Renaissance, the Catholic Church dominated both political and social aspects of Europe.Man's view of the world changed from being extremely religious and having everything to do with religion, to still being religious but also celebrating human activities.This resulted in a more secular view of the world and an emphasis on the individual An increased level of knowledge,…

The United States has long been considered exceptional Religious Identity Formation Durkheim (1976) provided his own definition of religion as having two elements, Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things which are set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. (Durkheim 1912/1976:47) Religious identity Erik Erikson’s influential psychosocial theory of…

The film Spotlight (2015) dramatizes The Boston Globe’s spotlight team’s investigation of the priests’ sexual abuse of children within the Boston Roman Catholic Church. The Spotlight team discovers the many cases of priests who committed sexual abuse, but the lack of justice carried out by law enforcement. They uncover the privately taken care of crimes, often hidden from the public. This film raises important topics of the relationship between church and state, the church’s abuse of power, the…