Soren Kierkegaard, a protestant Fideist, saw the biblical figure of Abraham as a hero and an example of the fideist position; this is because against all moral and ethical qualities, Abraham was willing to go against any kind of reason and sacrifice his own under the will of God. Strong rationalism and Fideism are the two extremes of each concept, the middle ground between those two is Critical Rationalism, believing that a balanced life allows for both reason and faith. Some things can be known by reason alone, whereas other things must be known by faith. History and reason through the bible will explain to us that Jesus lived and preached the kingdom of God, also performing
The European continent was going through a period of upheaval as famine, disease and war ravaged the population. During such trying times you would expect people to turn to their faith and church all the more. However during this time the Catholic Church was to a large extent going through its own crisis. Starting with the conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV of France in 1296 that launched a period of papal uncertainty that lasted well into the 15th century. This uncertainty at the head of the church created divisions in Christendom that would last for a long time, divisions that would sow the seeds of the reformation, increase strength of national churches and lead the way to the creation of The Church of England.
One of Europe’s biggest powers before its fall was the Holy Roman Empire. There were multiple events that contributed to the fall, but most of them started to occur in 1517. In 1648 the empire had completely fallen due to this series of events. The three major events that encouraged the fall of the empire were Thirty Years’ War, the religious reformations/war, and the Peace of Westphalia. One of the major events that assisted the fall of the Holy Roman Empire was Thirty Years’ War.
Many factors led to the rise of Protestantism, for example, events like the Black Death and the Western Schism. The most crucial factors were the reformers themselves. Two of the most famous reformers were Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus. Luther was a German priest who found the ways of the Roman Catholic Church to be corrupt, he fought the church until he was named an outlaw by the emperor, and shunned by the pope. Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, and Catholic priest.
Centuries after the Rise of Rome and their extraordinary historical achievements, was their collapse. This was caused by the combination of numerous political, economic and social factors or otherwise known as the P.E.S. These problems included corruptions in both the military and resource productions, and of course their continuous failed attempts of expanding their empire resulting in others and even their own society to turn and rebel against them. Political factors involve people and organizations with such power, these include powerful emperors, leaders and empires. Although if people with such power are unable to maintain control, their society usually collapses and resolves in chaos.
To what extent was the revolution of 1905 a failure? Although Bloody Sunday was the immediate spark, there were many more short and long term causes prior to the revolution. The Long term causes may be split into two categories, Social and Economic, and Political. The first involves; the poor living and working conditions, that were a result of sudden industrial and population growth, and the harvest failures that had been a issue for decades, both of which contributed to high levels of violence from the lower classes. Furthermore the Jacqueries attacked government officials and buildings, destroying many official records, specifically those that referred to unpaid rents.
Kant and Counterfeit Service Immanuel Kant puts forth the argument in his Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason that he is accepting the following proposition as a principle requiring no proof, and it says “apart from a good life-conduct, anything which the human being supposes that he can do to become well-pleasing to God is mere religious delusion and counterfeit service to God” (p. 166). This quote immediately provokes questions of what does this mean to the Roman Catholic monks of Saint Martins Abbey who devote their life’s to God, and how does my faith Mormonism fit into the ideas of Kant? He establishes that there is three kinds of religious delusions that we should try to avert. These three delusions known as delusory faith include faith in miracles, faith in mysteries and faith in means of grace which overstep the boundaries of our reason with respect to the supernatural (p. 185). Kant proclaims “the belief that we have cognition of something through experience which we in fact cannot accept as happening according to objective laws of experience (faith in miracles)”(p.185).
The fall of the Roman Empire was inevitable by A.D. 476. Christianity had weakened the bonds that had held it together, the people became corrupt, and it got too big. It was also because of barbarian attacks. Simply, all empires always fall and Romans time had come to an end. The collapse of the Roman Empire was a calamity; it leads to the Dark (Middle) Ages.
From his theories the only way we can know things for sure is through cause and effect. One must experience something in order to come up with a spot-on conclusion. In order to experience one thing there has to be a cause, and from the reading, it is said that God is an uncaused cause; because God is an uncaused caused it is not valid to say he possibly exists. This is Hume’s argument, and if broken down we see in some way he does have a point. Every living thing on this earth must have a cause, God is said to be an uncaused cause (which means nothing caused God, but God caused everything), but many say that God is existing and if this is possibly valid he must have to exist.
The Radical Prime Minister, Edourd Herriot, was met with a severe economic crisis caused by the mismanagement of government expenditure. A divide in the Cartel on how to solve the crisis meant Herriot stepped down in 1926. The demise of a government due to disagreements on a solution to France’s economic problems was an often occurrence during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The French people always suffered as a consequence of the