Another example was when Charlemagne was talking to his daughter bertha. The king said a day will come when every son and daughter will go to school. Another example, when Charlemagne decided to become the emperor of Rome, he did it because the pope asked and the people of Rome wanted him to be their king so he became emperor. Charlemagne was willing to make great sacrifices to bring Christianity to the pagan lands he ruled. Charlemagne did for the good of Christian Europe, and to do that good, he and his family would have to make personal sacrifices, such as when he put his two youngest sons in separate kingdoms from each other and from the rest of the family.
According to Michael Stanford, author of “A Companion to the Study of History,” chance is something that can not be forseen, or explained. [1] “William’s immediate feeling when he heard the news from England was of outraged pride, and I think that must have remained the prime cause of what he did,” Howarth writes. [2] According to William of Poitiers, a Norman who served Duke William, and numerous sources mentioned in Howarth’s book, William was promised the crown of England from King Edward. [3] William of Poitiers is considered a reliable source because he wrote Gesta Willelmi only a few short years after the campaign of 1066, but unreliable due to his involuntary bias towards the Normans. Howarth also
Seamus Heaney’s translation of the epic poem “Beowulf” successfully explores the reconciliation of Christian, mythological and Pagan influences. It analyses the text’s depiction of the archetypal hero and it’s symbol allusions through the indeterminable battle between Good and Evil, the concept of Fate, and the ‘superhuman’ within a mortal realm. Beowulf utilises poetic themes of religion in the way it manages to blend pagan and Christian morals and values and displace paradoxical notions. Heaney manages to combine his Christian perception of the loving but demanding virtues of an all-powerful and Judgmental God with the insane futility of the Germanic’s thirst for vengeance. Myth helped define the ancestral Germanic people’s existence, in
They stumbled through the dark together and stepped into the clearing. They arrived just as the first light of dawn touched the morning mist. Forming the words of the song in his mouth, at first just a whisper, then a little louder, he begun to see and hear the magic harp. So it’s true he thought, it’s really true. He filled his lungs with his mothers lullaby.
He embraced the Pagan value of making a name for himself and creating his own legacy, which is the opposite of what Christians are taught to do. The poem as a whole shows the remarkable similarity between the way Christians in 500 AD handled revenge and the way Pagans handled it. This contrast of values (those of the author and those of the culture of the poem) created a written work that is culturally and religiously ambiguous; it is neither strictly Christian nor strictly Pagan. When the highly praised hero Beowulf arrived in Denmark, a great feast was prepared in his honor. The Danes admired Beowulf, which infuriated their greatest warrior Unferth.
She wants a blanket to “have good dreams for a hundred years.” The speaker makes a connection with Meema, who “dreams of her yellow sisters” and “about Mama.” She recalls her father coming home from his store and the family cranking up the pianola. The speaker expresses an appreciation of these experiences and a fondness of her family members.
"Patriotism," a wise man once observed, "is the last refuge of scoundrels." And the braided, he might of added. Braided Scoundrel-in-Chief, George Junior, lacking even the sense to be careful what he wished for, has teamed up with a gaggle of fundamentalist Christian clerics like Billy Graham to proclaim a "New Crusade" called "Infinite Justice" aimed at "ridding the world of evil." One could easily make light of such rhetoric, remarking upon how unseemly it is for a son to threaten his father in such fashion – or a president to so publicly contemplate the murder/suicide of himself and his cabinet – but the matter is deadly serious. They are preparing once again to sally forth for the purpose of roasting brown-skinned children by the scores of thousands.
This is called Christian pacifism. Though the old testament sometimes saw god as the commander of armies, normally fighting for Israel. Jesus sought the teachings of a strand of the old testament found in the vision of the prophet Zechariah, a messiah who banished chariots and war horses and spoke of peace to every nation. Jesus took the part of the suffering servant of Isaiah, who would redeem humanity by his own undeserved suffering as seen in his crucifixion. In a teaching on The Mount (Matthew 5-7), he taught his followers to love their enemies, to forgive those who had wronged them, and to respond to violence with non-violence, returning good for evil.
Religious Right author David Barton, perhaps the most outspoken of the “wall of separation” critics, devoted an entire book, The Myth of Separation, to proving his claim that church-state separation is “absurd” and was a principle completely foreign to the Founding Fathers. He states: “In Jefferson’s full letter, he said separation of church and state means the government will not run the church, but we will use Christian principles with government.” More recently, two researchers have published books that criticize the almost infamous status the metaphor has achieved, especially before the U. S. Supreme Court. Daniel Dreisbach, who wrote, Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State, is critical of the courts for making the metaphor a practical rule of constitutional law. Dreisbach’s basic argument is that the metaphor fails to distinguish between the conception of “separation” and “non-establishment.” Dreisbach is correct in saying that metaphors can be overstated, misused, and made poor substitutes for legal
The coronation of Poppea was made up of 12 scenes divided in to two acts that tell us the romantic but painful love story of royal family. The opera described the atrocious emperor who killed his teacher and abolished the empress only to marry Poppea. The opera ended up with happiness, which eulogized the power of love which can fight against everything. This very first amazing work in opera was composed by Monteverdi and plays a significant role in operatic literature history opening the era of baroque music. The prologue itself was very funny.