In what ways did East African and West African societies differ? 7. What was the impact of the Bantu on Central and Southern Africa? Discussion Questions 1. What challenges face the historian of early Africa?
He remained there until his death around 1123. In Guiberts book, A Monks Confession, there are multiple themes that appear throughout the middle ages. Three of them that stood out to me in the book were; simony, fear of the devil, and corruption of those with power. Simony, in the Middle Ages, was viewed as a very serious offense for those who chose to live the monastic life. It was first addressed as a problem during the Gregorian reform, when Pope Leo IX condemned the bishop of Sutri for simony and the bishop then died on the spot (Bennett pg.
Luther’s first step was to attempt reform within the Catholic church was posting “The 95 Theses on the Power of Indulgences” on the door of the church of Wittenberg to directly protest the selling of indulgences. Condemning indulgences was, in fact, condemning the pope, and his authority to grant pardons to the Catholics. Opposing indulgences was not the end of opposing the pope, however, when the pope sent Luther a letter telling him to take back his words or be excommunicated, Luther burned the letter publicly. Eventually when Luther was excommunicated, he continued to spread his heretical ideas especially through his writings, some of which included “On Christian Liberty” which led the peasant class to believe Lutheranism would lift their oppression and “An Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation” which invited Christian princes to take over the wealth of the German monasteries. Luther needed the support of the masses to bring about his reform.
Rejuvenation of Right Wing Terrorism: Branch Davidian Compound The Branch Davidians began with a man named Victor Houteff, who in 1929 was shunned from a Los Angeles Seventh-Day Adventist church for sharing contradictory views with other church members. Houteff saw himself as a self-proclaimed messenger of God and responded to his expulsion by crystallizing his contradictory views in “The Shepherd’s Rod Vol. 1 and 2”. The purpose of his first book was to reveal the truth and bring about a reformation of God’s people, but the second volume represented a symbolic revelation of the world’s history, both civil and religious. Houteff’s theology was based on his books, hence, the first name of his flock- the Shepherd’s Rod Seventh-day Aventists (Christian research institute, 2009).
Henry VIII vs. John Calvin in the Protestant Reformation In the sixteenth century, stood the reformation of the Catholic Church in Western Europe. While the main focus was an internal renovation of the church, the outcome was much different than expected; the reformation led to a revolt against and an abandonment of principal Christian belief. The difference in the view and act of oneself was different from individual to individual during the reformation. While Calvin left for Geneva in 1536 from France because of the fear of persecution for the publically spread beliefs of his about the Church to the people, Henry VIII had manipulated the church for a way to receive a new wife in hopes for his first son. Different motivation stands for each of these people in what they did for the reformation.
Mentor BOOK REVIEW: AUGUSTINE AS MENTOR BY: EDWARD L. SMITHER Liberty University History of Christianity I (CHHI 520) Dr. David Pederson June 20, 2011 BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY Smither, Edward L. Augustine as Mentor. Nashville: B & H Publishing Group, 2008. Author Information Ed Smither is currently functioning as an Associate Professor of Church History and Intercultural Studies at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. He also served as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Humanities at the University of Tunis-el Manar form 2002-2006. He and his wife Shawn have three children: Brennan, Emma, and Eve.
Why do we need a king that’s so selfish and disrespectful to rule our country? Religious conflicts permeated Charles’s reign. He married a Catholic princess over the objection of our parliament and public opinion. He also allied himself with controversial religious figures like Duke of Buckingham and Archbishop Laud. As his subjects, we think that this brought our Church of England too close to Roman Catholic.
• Throughout his life, Charlemagne had worshiped God devoutly, supported the church, given to the needy, and even built a magnificent cathedral. • In I Samuel 2:30 God says, “Those who honr me I will honor…” Since Charlemagne honored God, God raised him up to lead a great
During the early 1500s there were many things that brought about religious change in Eastern Europe because of Martin Luther in Germany and King Henry VIII in England. The motives and the actions of the two were different in that Martin Luther had an intention of bringing about religious change where as King Henry VIII didn’t, having defended the church’s original catholic faith with no tolerance of opposition to it, having caused a reform because of a personal matter. Martin Luther was a German Augustinian friar who questioned not only the practices of the church, but he condemned it for teaching wrongly which ultimately lead to questioning the entire sacramental system of Catholicism in relation to salvation. He wrote and published many pamphlets that elaborated his ideas and denounced what he considered to be false teachings with motives of changing the beliefs of many into what he saw to be the proper things that should be taught and preached by the church. The publication of Luther’s German translation of the New Testament in 1523 democratized religion.
The Catholic Church Why did the Catholics become angry at the Catholic Church in the 1300s? During the Reformation problems happen in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was in chaos. They weren’t focus on people’s lives; they were focused on money and affairs. Martin Luther and John Calvin were in the Reformation they were determined to reform the Catholic Church.