The series of wars between the European Christians and the Muslims, which was called the crusades, made Europe more aware about art, math, technology, etc…. The period that followed the crusades was called the renaissance, which was a period o cultural and technological innovation. This was a huge difference from the previous which was called the dark ages because there was almost no cultural or technological innovation. Another change that occurred during this time was the protestant reformation. Martin Luther started this reformation by posting his 95 thesis to the door of the church.
Charlemagne responsibilities grew after the battle against the Saxons, which lasted a long period of time (33 years) with each conquest the Frankish empire grew, the growth became the additional power and responsibility for Charlemagne. His responsibility as a Carolingian monarch was to eliminate the leaders in the church that weren’t Christians or who refused to convert themselves or be baptized as a Christian or the conquense was death. The church played a Major role in the kingdom of Charlemagne. It gave him a sense of stability, he in turn provided stability in the church. The people conquered by charlemegne , after being converted to christianty, were taught through the bible of codes that taught right and wrong.
Erik Arroyo Mr. Seaton PHIL 200 17 Sep 2013 Constantine’s influence on Christianity Do you know who Constantine was? Many historians affirm he was the first Roman Emperor to convert into Christianity. This took place around the fourth century. It is also said that once he converted he brought new laws protecting the Christian people from persecution. Historians today don’t understand why he favored this religion, but they believe it was because of a vision he had from the God of Christianity or he simply adopted it from his mother who introduced it to him during his childhood.
The belief existed for centuries, and after the arrival of Christianity, became the backbone of the peoples' belief. For generations after the introduction of Orthodox Christianity, people still believed in their pagan rituals as a method of ensuring success in wealth and agriculture, using Christianity as a way to salvation. To this day, the mythology exists and serves as the connection to Earth for many Slavic people. Slavic mythology was first practiced in the Slavonic tribes that existed as early as the first and second centuries. There are very little, written accounts of Slavic mythology and references found to the Slavic pagans were written by the Christian missionaries and were not very accurate.
The poem had to appeal to Anglo-Saxons and his fellow Christians precisely because they were attempting to merge their own beliefs and at times during the poem those beliefs appear to amalgamate. Actions and events will expose both beliefs as they appear distinct from each other throughout the story. The Christian influences were combined with early folklore and the heroic legends of the German tribes. As Christianity and paganism are intertwined in the poem Beowulf reveals both Christian and pagan influences. Therefore, it would be understandable to suggest that the original pagan scop, who sang of this epic poem, was influenced by Christian beliefs but then a Christian monk finally put it on paper.
“Palladius founded a few churches in the Northeast of Ireland though the known Christian settlements and monasteries where mostly in the south ”. However, it is said that Palladius was soon chased out of the country by many pagans and fled to England where he died soon after. Despite his successes and the erection of several churches, Bishop Palladius is not known as he-who-brought-Christianity-to-Ireland. This title is usually given to his successor Patricius Magnous Sucatus, bettor known as Saint Patrick. Even though archaeological evidence shows that Christianity was present in Ireland prior to his landing in 432.According to O’Croinin Patrick came to Ireland in 432 landing at the sight of Palladius’ failure .
This is not so in other religions. Such religions as Hinduism for instance do not believe this. For everything you do wrong you will be punished. Christianity is slowly evolving and trying to become even more appealing to society, there are still many downfalls. Todays society is steadly envolving and the views on how the Universe works today is a total different story on how people thought it worked back then.
In addition, there has been a growing emphasis placed on equal rights. These two movements have contributed to keeping the argument for same-sex marriage in the forefront. There are people who believe that although progress has been made, Christian values are still an obstacle for the progress that needs to take place and Brittney Baker is one of them. She compares and contrasts the relationship between the religious and gay community’s attitudes towards same-sex marriage. She puts forth rebuttals to many of the typical arguments for prohibiting same-sex marriage.
The Forgotten Christian World Christianity in all its forms began in the Middle Eastern region during the 1st century C.E., but as it became the state religion of the Roman Empire in the Western Mediterranean, denominations that disagreed with the specific beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church were forced out of Roman-controlled regions and found refuge in Persian-controlled lands. Without the constraints of the Roman theocratic government, these denominations were free to expand and spread deep into the Asian continent. For the first one thousand years of the Common Era, while Christians throughout Europe were struggling to convert and dominate the indigenous religions they encountered, Christianity was able to coexist peacefully as the minority religion in the Middle East and Asia. This coexistence was possible perhaps because these Christians found themselves in the midst of the more tolerant and accepting religions and cultures of Buddhism and Hinduism in China and India, and even early Islam in the Middle East. It is possible that the influence of these religions is the reason that Eastern Christians exhibited a
.” (Funck- Brentano, 1). Fear of invasions from Germanic tribes took over the region, and government was nonexistent until Charlemagne came to power. Under the reign of Charlemagne, whose main political group was the Catholic Church, these tribes were united and converted to Christianity.