Protestant Ascendancy

The purpose of the Counter-Reformation was for the Catholic Church to revive itself after the Protestant Reformation where the Church was threatened with the conversions to Protestantism. While this was a very dramatic and life changing time for religion and people, art went through a complete transition in terms of its style. Post-reform, art was very much absent in churches, and non-religious art was humanist, consisting of genre and landscape paintings. When the Catholic Church fought back…

for Americans but also for the whole world. The word “propaganda” came from Catholic Church. The phrase “congregatio de propaganda fide” (The congregation for the propagation of the faith) was used to support the Catholic faith in response to the Protestant Reformation (Labash, 20 Dec, 2001). Propaganda absolutely everywhere and has been around for a very long time. It is always symbolizing negative emotions because historically it was used to have control and power; as in Nazi regime. Today,…

Uppsala acknowledged secular world as locus and context of mission, “to a humanity that cries passionately and articulately for a fully human life.” This shift of focus from individual conversion towards world foreshadowed the crisis in mission as found in Donald McGavran’s question “Will Uppsala Betray the Two Billion?” According to McGavran the document “Renewal in Mission” did not give an authentic proposal for personal proclamation of the gospel, necessity of faith, the unevangelized…

Elizabeth Edman is a queer priest. She is also a priestly queer. It is from the perspective of these intertwined and inseparable identities that her new book (on sale tomorrow, May 17), Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (Beacon Press, $25.95), challenges Christians to embrace queerness and to boldly proclaim a faith that “is and must be queer” (3). Of course Edman doesn’t mean that straight Christians must turn gay. Queerness extends…

The actions and ways of Martin Luther made a huge impact and influenced on the Catholic Church today in many ways. Martin Luther was behind the protestant reformation as he was the one who wrote the 95 thesis which questioned the way in which the church ran. Luther was also accountable for translating the bible from Latin to English. Without Martin Luther’s work people back then wouldn’t have realised the corruption and the political conflict at that time in the church. The contributions Martin…

whilst the nobles were persons who also believed they had the divine power to stay on top of the social hierarchy and support their superiors in maintaining social order. Because of this, many of the serfs and underclass lived by the Pre-Christian traditions and teachings up till the 1600s (Sauer 156). They lived according to the traditions and principles of the Early Irish, Welsh and English customs which related to fairy tales and Druids as well as other superstitions that were not Biblical.…

The formation of Military orders was the most crucial movement for the establishment of crusader states in the Middle-East. When the crusader states first began to form, they were alone in a foreign land with little in the way of established trade routes and constant infighting due to factions from different kingdoms competing among the crusading armies. The movement could have fallen apart at any moment, but military orders, groups of warrior monks, began to form eager to take on all the…

A hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. A hero’s actions also defines him/her as a hero. For example, Malcolm X could be a hero to people for what he accomplished during the Civil Rights Movement. In literature, tragic hero is a protagonist with a fatal flaw that eventually leads to his/her death. Throughout The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is considered the tragic hero. Many people throughout The Crucible many of…

Voltaire changed the world no by giving speeches but by writing. He challenged the government through to split the state from the church. He wrote many plays, books, letters and pamphlets to explain what he wanted to be changed. He didn't like that because the king of France wanted everyone to be a certain religion that they had to be that religion. ¨He wrote how human rights are far above the dogma of holy books - how government's main duty is to secure and recognize the rights of the People,…

Milton grew up in an extremely protestant household and was taught religion as a youth by different tutors and religious schools. Milton’s father planned for him becoming a church figure, but Milton abandoned these plans due to his beliefs that the church was corrupt at the time. This did…