Protestant Ascendancy

Utopia: The Perfect Society Saint Thomas More’s Utopia presents us with a retelling of the world’s one and only “perfect” society. It is a very detailed account of the life style of the Utopians from a man named Raphael Hythlodaeus. This fictional account of the island in the new world is incredibly vivid and even mixed in with truths from explorers and other facts from the time, which makes it seem almost as if it was reality. On the surface, More’s Utopia is a blueprint for a perfect society,…

Changing Identities and Beliefs in Europe and the Americas The middle ages was a dark, cruel and brutal, and came to an end in slow steady process which led it into the renaissance. Though there is no clear line between the two periods in Europe, the main aspects of the renaissance period was the rise in humanism: “a change in attitude about humanity in dialogue with the new and the old” (Hare, 30/8/16). This meant that it was time when people were began to look at the older civilizations such…

Between the 14th and 16th centuries things started to change for the people in Europe; cities started to flourish and grow, people in the middle class started to grow in wealth and knowledge, and attitudes toward the church changed (Hankins, 2017). This was known as the Renaissance period and was the turning point in society as they knew it. It was a period in time that would turn out to be the biggest part in shaping and developing our society in American culture. There are five areas of…

starting point, though some historians view them as an outgrowth of earlier seventeenth-century sentiments. Other historians posit and argue that the Ranters are a religious invention. Religious dissenters, such as the Quakers, needed scapegoats to explain the moral and social declination occurring in English society, creating the term Ranter. Writings and pamphlets from the period, though, clearly indicate that contemporaries believed select individuals truly adhered to the beliefs of…

Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares or simply known as Father Antonio de Olivares, was a Spanish Franciscan who among others, founded the famous mission of San Antonio de Valero, also known as "The Alamo" in 1718. Father Antonio de Olivareswas born in 1630 in Spain. On September 8, 1720, after suffering a broken leg and worse health, Olivares retired from MissionValero and eventually died when he was 92 years of age in 1722. In 1709, he participated in the expedition headed by Pedro deAguirre…

INTRODUCTION The religion of Christianity has many sub groups within the religion. These are called denominations. Denominations in Christianity are a distinct religious group with similar traits. The religion of Christianity has many sub groups within the religion. These are called denominations. Distinctions between groups are determined by which doctrine they follow. From denominations there can be branches of Christianity which are groups of denominations that share similar beliefs and…

To whom it may concern. I am an exhibition planner for the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa and we are currently in the process of preparing for next year’s special Exhibition. An object rich in history and culture would be Gutenberg’s printing press. This object was the invention that historians consider changed how civilization evolved. This change is often compared to when humans discovered iron which ended the Neolithic Era (new stone age) and entered the Age of Empire (also…

When I first opened my anthology to the section on Sir Thomas Browne, I had no clue what I was getting myself into. I had heard mentions of him only in passing, so I knew nothing of the man behind the name, nor did I expect to fall in love with what the Norton editors deem his “exercise in delighted self-analysis” (Greenblatt 1696): Religio Medici. Because our anthology does not provide this work in its entirety—I suppose such a thing is not to be expected, as the full work appears to be…

The reformation’s revolt against the Catholic Church’s theology, practices, and hierarchy climax in a disagreement with the sacramental system which was categorized by these things. Quarreling among reformation leaders was initiated through disagreement about the understanding of Sacraments especially the Lord’s Supper. The leading disagreement of the Lord’s Supper between Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli is Christ’s materiality and presence during the Eucharist. In order to understand the stances…

The Barmen Declaration was the most important document that the Confessing Church had drafted. Although it did not directly address the Aryan paragraph nor Nazi antisemitism, it condemned the “false doctrine” of the nazified theology of the German Christians and the unbiblical synchronization of church institutions. This document served as confession of what they believed to be the proper understanding of the Reformation Confession of Faith. While Karl Barth was the predominant author of the…