The Roman and Barbarian Armies both had someone, be it the military commander or someone else acting in what would be the position of a chaplain. Their responsibility for the most part was to promote the idea of the righteousness of their Christian kingdom, their efforts and the great rewards that await them if they die in battle etc. Most if not all accomplished this through sacraments, visions and icons with no real apparent focus on personal spiritual care. You will find an interesting bit of psychology in this interaction. After viewing history and oftentimes witnessing the success of soldiers that fought in the name of their king and pope, they fought ever more fervently with the belief that God was with them.
He even promoted Christianity in government. He believed that federal funds should be used to print copies of the bible for the public. He authored "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments," which discouraged the use of religious tests for
Reflection #5: Divided Royalties: “Jonathan Boucher & the Pre-Revolutionary Crisis” In my opinion this chapter in the reader is a good chance to compare and contrast Jonathan Boucher’s loyalty to Great Britain and the Anglican Church, to the Rebellion of the colonist and their ripening beliefs of Deism. Boucher’s position in regards to Great Britain was much like that of many government officials, merchants, and clerics during this time; it depended on royal support in order to survive. His loyalty to the church came from the earlier methodology that the Anglican Church was the one true church. These aged concepts and ideals oppose everything that colonist were trying to establish leading up to the revolutionary
The United States forcefully omitted their foreign rights and enforced American values upon the islanders. The United States successfully imperialized foreign islands without consequence due to the American public’s ideals of religion, manifest destiny, and American values. The American imperialism of both Pacific and Atlantic islands was favored by a majority of the American public because of their shared religion of Christianity. The American public believed it was God’s will that the United States shall become a superpower to spread the word of Jesus Christ. According to Reverend Josiah Strong, a prominent Protestant clergyman,” It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxon race, the purest Christianity, the highest civilization in which will
The philosophical rationalism of the Enlightenment was spreading its influence among the educated classes; others were preoccupied with the things of this world. When Theodore Frelinghuysen, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, came to begin his pastoral world in New Jersey during the 1720's, he was shocked by the deadness of the churches in America. He preached
Thomas Jefferson Though deeply committed to a belief in natural rights, including the self-evident truth that all men are created equal, Jefferson was individualistic when it came to religion; he sifted through the New Testament to find the facts that pleased him. Sometimes he sounded like a staunch churchman. The Declaration of Independence contains at least four references to God. In his Second Inaugural Address he asked for prayers to Israel's God on his behalf. Other times Jefferson seemed to go out of his way to be irreverent and disrespectful of organized Christianity, especially Calvinism.
The people conquered by charlemegne , after being converted to christianty, were taught through the bible of codes that taught right and wrong. It was nesscary for the church to play a role in this education of the people, because only the clergy were educated. The church also guided charlemagene’s hand as a ruler, for he took on many conquests and missions so this way the Christian relgion could spread throught Europe. Indeed, his desire and passionate to spread his kingdom and government was interwined with his desire to spread the Christian relgion and have the people live according to the word of god. At that beginning of the caroligian dynasty the church was suffering from problems.
The Puritans: Were they successful in creating their vision of ‘a City upon a Hill? Physical separation from the Anglican Church was the first step the Puritans took in breathing life into their vision for the New World. They felt as though the Bible was the ultimate book of instructions for an individual to live a pure, Christian lifestyle. The Puritans were successful in creating a prosperous colony that flourished socially and economically. However, Native American bloodshed, their harsh persecution of religious dissenters, and the Salem Witch trials are a blatant display of their hypocritical ways.
In 1776, Thomas Jefferson was asked to write the Declaration of Independence. One of his beliefs in the document was that all people had certain basic rights to life and liberty which no government could take away. He wrote the Declaration of Independence with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. He became one of the most learned men in American history. Thomas studied music, law, science, and philosophy, knew six different languages, and was self taught architecture.
Allusions convince and change the mind of men like the clergymen in this case. Using religious figures makes allusions that men of God would easily relate to. He makes a comparison to his actions to those of Socrates practicing civil disobedience in the quote, “To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience”(210). Another allusion is included about Adolf Hitler reign in Germany where “everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal”, ”to prove the point of what is “right and wrong” is in the eyes of the beholder (210). In most paragraphs he uses at least one allusion that the clergymen can compare his or their opinion to.