Protestant Ascendancy

Queen, who was born among royalty during the year of 1558 in Hatfield, England. She is one of the three surviving children of King Henry VIII and the most unlikely to be next in line for the throne. She would rule during a time period where her Protestant faith would be tested in the highest regard due to her mother and her brother previous rule before her. She never knew her mother, Anne Boylan, for she was beheaded before the people for being “unfaithful” to the king. The main reason was Anne…

In 1573, Paolo Veronese, a Venetian artist, painted the Last Supper within the Church of San Giovanni e Paolo Venice. Venice was essentially the trading port for all of Europe at the time. There were pathways through the Mediterranean to other European countries as well as to Africa and the Middle East. Thus, Venice was the point where multiple cultures came together and interconnected, and this greatly influenced Veronese’s work. Veronese’s main focus in the work of art was the individuals.…

Prothero believes that Protestantism is actually more sexist than Catholicism because, as he states, “it was Catholics who put angels’ wings on women and gave us a litany of female saints. “ Protestants on the other hand, do not really give female visionaries in the church recognition. I think I agree with Prothero’s argument because, although Catholics do not give many rights to females in the church, they do celebrate and recognize the achievements of the women who have good deeds, inside or…

Thomas More is known for his 1516 book Utopia and for his untimely death in 1535, after refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint in 1935. In 1520, reformer Martin three works setting out his doctrine of salvation, which, according to Luther, could be attained through grace alone; the series rejected certain Catholic practices and attacked others. In 1521, King Henry VIII responded to Luther with the assistance of…

Finney and Tocqueville: What America Needs The second Great Awakening was another revival of man’s connection with God; however, this time God is reaching out to individuals and providing them with atonement and salvation. In this time period, America was beginning to expand out West. Religious lectures that lasted weeks, were known as “camp meetings” and they became popular in frontier culture. Frontiersmen would venture out into the wilderness and congregate to celebrate God with weeks of…

The world unfailingly evolves in an attempt to improve and advance humanity. As new discoveries are made, perceptions are altered, and people are left with a choice to either accept societal transformations, or stand against them. Looking back, this trend can be seen in virtually every aspect of history. During the Renaissance, people either accepted the new secularist views or rejected them in favor of the church, and amid the Scientific Revolution, people either supported new discoveries, or…

colonies were mostly protestant and Southern Europe while Southern Europe and America as well as Mexico followed conventional Catholic teachings. In addition, religious wars transpired as a result of the reformations; specifically, the Huguenots or French Protestants against the French Catholics. This war was started due to the fact that the king wanted to eliminate all Protestants in the country. Eventually, King Henry IV created the Edict of Nates which allowed Protestants to stay in certain…

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 Puritans sought to purify, and strived to only partially reform the Church of England. They believed, whether they stated it or not, solely in social order and made that very clear by limiting the individual freedom of their followers. The Puritans read the Bible in a religious or continuous manner and interpreted every word literally. They believed in Calvinism, or predestination. Under predestination, it says that one is predetermined as saved or damned. Though the people of…

He calls it the “protestant conversion process” (6) which begins first with awareness moving to identification, then to understanding and finally, activism. A person had to be first aware that there was a difference between the old standards of the Catholic Church and the…