What motivated men to join the crusades led by Louis IX? Throughout the Middle Ages the idea of the crusade was employed by both the Church and the secular rulers of Western Christendom as a weapon against the infidels of the Holy Land. Shortly after Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade to a large clerical gathering at Clermont in November 1095, the crusade became a traditional element of both Christian and knightly life. The notion of the crusade as both an act of service to God and as a means of celestial improvement inspired a number of Christian men to join the crusading movement. [1] The loss of the territory of Jerusalem in the summer of 1244 had unravelled the unexpected success of the Sixth Crusade and as a result King Louis IX of France, as a devout Christian, wished to travel to the East to reclaim the lost Christian lands.
As the French Jesuit missionaries voyaged through the lands of the Huron Indians they experienced many hardships and obstacles that would set back their goal of converting the savages to Christianity. The film Black Robe does an amazing job at portraying these missionaries, and the obstacles that they faced. The main character Father LaForgue, who is a French Jesuit missionary (Black Robe), is set off on a voyage approved by Captain Champlain to travel up the St. Lawrence River and reestablish contact with a Jesuit mission in Huron territory. LaForgue is accompanied by another French Jesuit named Daniel who someday hopes to be a priest himself. Also, an Algonquin Indian named Chomina, whose services are bartered for items such as pots,
Forced to separate because of the war, Inman and Ada can no longer rely on each other to fill their voids. Inman needs to find religion on his own and Ada must experience reality before they reunite. Ultimately, Inman and Ada walk different paths to the same destination. While grazing heifers with Inman at age sixteen, a Cherokee boy named Swimmer declares that “above the blue vault of heaven there was a forest inhabited by a celestial race.…in that high land the dead spirit could be reborn” (Frazier 23). After pondering this declaration, Inman concludes that “he cannot abide by a universe composed of only that he could see, especially when it was so frequently foul.
Jesus: The Miracle Hero “He came from heaven to earth to show the way, from the earth to the cross my debt he paid, from the cross to the grave from the grave to the sky lord I lift your name on high” A song by Donnie Mcclurkin sung by Christians today in reference to Jesus Christ. Like a hero Christ went through heroic stages: The call to adventure, The road of trails and The Master of the two Worlds. Joseph Campbell explains that the "first stage of the mythological journey '' is called ''the call to adventure'' (48). The hero is either subconsciously drawn into the adventure, or "the hero can go forth his own volition to accomplish the adventure” this usually occurs when the hero realizes there is another world other than what he is
The first is the Departure, in which Book leaves his common-day abode, as his duty to protect Samuel and himself from the corrupt police force takes him to the threshold of adventure, seeking the Amish people’s protection and living amongst them. The second stage is the Initiation, which are the struggles faced by the hero on his journey through the unfamiliar world, i.e. the Amish community. The tests Book experiences include adapting to the Amish culture and their ways of living. Weir highlights this through costuming, for example, when Book wears Jacob’s (Rachel’s dead husband) clothes.
The poem at hand is „Pilgrimages“ by R.S. Thomas. The title already hints at the poem’s content, which might be paraphrased in the following way: The speaker arrives on an island to which his pilgrimage has led him and where once some saints have come. Once there, though, he does not seem to find what he was looking for. There is no sign of God or of religion), nor in a church like building, nor in the behaviour of the other persons on the island (prayers, hymns).
“Civil Disobedience” – refused to pay state tax b/c opposed Mexican war III. The flowering of American literature A. Nathaniel Hawthorne – New England Writer, haunted by Puritan ancestors (Salem Witch trial judge); impossible to remove all sin from human soul B. Emily Dickinson – original & powerful Poet; themes: life, death, fear, loneliness, nature, god C. Washington Irving – proof American could make career of literature, adept imitator D. James Fenimore Cooper – conflict: Man vs. backwoods nature; romances of frontier life; model for cowboy movie, novels E. Edgar Allan Poe – Gothic horror short stories; inventor of detective story; fear most powerful emotion F. William Gilmore Simms – gentleman of letters G. Herman Melville – realistic fiction (based on his adventures at sea), Moby‐Dick H. Walt Whitman – explicit sexual references; homoerotic elements; rejects women’s domestic sphere I. The popular
Paul vs. the People The defendant Paul was on his last missionary journey in Corinth, he was preparing to go to Jerusalem for pass over. After arriving there he was arrested and accused of many things first bringing a Gentile into the Temple, promoting a religion not approved by Roman law, and being a trouble maker. Trial before Gallio
Lewis and Joy both took the road to Atheism and then landed on the road to Christianity. In the book, A Grief Observed, Lewis compared the pain of death to being mildly drunk, or concussed. Lewis felt as though there was a blanket between him and the world. [6] He questioned, “Where is God?’ Although he questioned God and experienced another great loss, Lewis knew that he could not let his faith in God fade. He had to press on and look to God for his purpose in life and believe that God would strengthen him in his time of bereavement.
Powerful Alliteration: Uses of Sound, Rhythm, and Image to Convey Sensory Detail in an Abbreviated Version of Robert Southey’s “The Cataract of Ladore” Robert Southey was a young,late-18th, early-19th century, idealist who questioned the ethics of the church and Christianity. While at Oxford studying for the ministry, he wrote a revolutionary paper condemning corporal punishment. Oxford officials found his article to be proof that in “the world that forces of anarchy and irreligion [have] secured a foothold ”(“Robert”). Southey was ultimately expelled but this did not stop his pursuit of writing controversial literature. In Southey’s poem “The Cataract of Ladore”, he fuses a forceful and anarchic perspective of the prodigious Ladore River in Great Brittan with a rhyming poem for children.