Reformation in Switzerland

A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay that tied into the SLE of being a Committed Catholic where I highlighted the violence in racism and why we shouldn’t be racist to one another. I wrote it for the Maryknoll Essay contest, which called students, “to take a clear stand for creative and active nonviolence and against all forms of violence.” The SLE bullet points that I thought most tied into this essay were understanding and being able to explain Catholic beliefs and being able to live as Jesus…

Satyagraha means truth and insistence, both words could be said to have been part of Archbishop Romero’s strategy to stop the violence happening in El Salvador. Romero was a man who was only trying to speak the truth and insist in nonviolent, mostly non-confrontational ways that the use of violence in this conflict could be stopped. The film Romero, has several instances where this belief could be clearly shown. The first instance where Satyagraha as a nonviolent reaction is clearly seen is…

substantial way. Martin Luther’s effect on religion in the 16th century is similar to Donald Trump’s new found effect on politics in America. In his lifetime Martin Luther became a well known figure of theology and strongly influenced the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s translation of the Bible from latin to vernacular, helped alter both the church and German culture, while also fostering the development of the German language. Martin Luther’s works lead to a cult like following and the…

Urgains G Vilsaint The trading of Guns, the Protestant Reformation, and the Ming Dynasty changed the world positively and negatively. Without these events, the face of the world would not have been the same. Since the 1450’s to today, one of the main things that has changes and shaped the world is the trade of guns and gun powder. Guns are good because they help Countries take over territories. Hernando Cortez used guns on his travelled and with the help of horses, diseases and guns he was…

known as Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in 1517. However, religious tolerance remained a controversial topic. In early modern Europe, most states had an established church supported by the ruler. However, partly as a result of the Protestant Reformation, many states had sizable religious minorities. While many were for freedom of religion, others were against it. People were for religious tolerance because of reputation, unity,…

The First Crusade was the first and most successful of a series of holy wars that defined the Middle Ages. Ostensibly a religious mission to regain the Holy Land, the crusade changed the ways the nobility interacted and opened western Europe to new ideas. While the goal of the First Crusade was to “rescue” Jerusalem, its most lasting effect was the strengthening of the Catholic Church. At the behest of the Pope, Urban II, a large group of French nobles went to try to recapture Jerusalem. The…

The tone of anger and condemnation once again intensifies with another example of the impotence of moral authority All hope for a brighter future is lost. Even the church is jaded and has lost it ability to comfort the people as expressed in the following lines: How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry Every black’ning Church appalls; The very lines prompt an even bleaker view of England in the nineteenth-century. The lines/sentences introduce us to the chimney-sweeper who are none but the…

The renaissance is the re-birth of classical ideas. Many artists of this period were influenced by the Roman and Greek culture and wanted to re-create their works by adding their own touch and thoughts. Also, at this time, art began to flourish and patrons commissioned many artists. Artists like Michelangelo Buonarroti and Hieronymus Bosch were and still are very famous for their works. In this essay, I will discuss “The Last Judgment” done by both Michelangelo and Bosch. Michelangelo was from…

Despite the extensive presence of the Catholic church in the late Middle Ages, it seems as though society was still fixated on the opposition between Fortune and free will. It is common knowledge that Christianity preached free will to its people, and that the idea of Fortune or fatalism was a pagan idea condemned by the Church. Fortune as a concept, then, could only be explored through writing. Geoffrey Chaucer was one of many writers who wrestled with the opposition between free will and…

During the early Fifteen Hundreds a man known as Martin Luther became a voice for a movement that would change the way people practiced religion. Previous to the Protestant Reformation, Europe had been through over a century of plague from the Black Death which desimated the population killing a third of European society. The plague was thought by many to be punishment by God for the sins Europeans had committed. Society especially the middle and lower class began to view the Church…