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(B) How did this differ from Byzantium? 3. What type of Christianity dominated Western Europe? 4. What advantages did the eastern Roman Empire have that allowed it to ward off Germanic tribes and avoid collapse?
When President Harry Truman composed a letter to Pope Pius XII in 1947 that "This is a Christian nation.” He wanted to acknowledge that this nations institutions and laws, was established on the Biblical philosophy found in Christianity. The original starting point of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from the books of the bible like Exodus, Saint Matthew, Isaiah and Saint Paul. In Woodrow Wilsons drive
Discuss the Christian Doctrine of one God in three persons (the trinity). Explain what Christians mean by the oneness of God and the Trinity of persons; i.e. that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one God. The Doctrine of the Trinity asserts that Monotheism is an essential belief within the scripture itself. Monotheism is the belief that there is only but one God.
It is evident that at the close of the eleventh century the route to Palestine was familiar enough to Western Christians who looked upon the Holy Sepulchre as the most venerable of relics and were ready to brave any peril in order to visit it. While the basic motivation for the First Crusade may have been to wrestle the Holy Land and it relics from Muslim control and once again clear the way for Western Christian pilgrimages, this is not to say that certain Western leaders did not use this devotional excuse for their own political benefit. Second Crusade The motivation for the Second Crusade was the Fall of Edessa, taken by the Sultan of Aleppo in 1144, and the consequent call to Christian crusaders for the Holy Land to again be freed. But once again we see a darker agenda appearing among the participants as the call arose that Jews were to be exterminated along the way. The Second Crusade was preached by St. Bernard of Clairvaux and led by King Louis VII of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II, but resulted in near complete
The first phrase of Ave Verum Corpus means ‘Hail true body’, and for Byrd, the most important word wasn’t Ave or Corpus, but Verum, because the word ‘true’ emphasized he was in the true presence of Christ when participating in the Eucharist. He emphasized verum using a very particular
Differing worldviews will ask and answer variations of these questions. As Christians we take the questions further and seek to know and understand the God that created us and how He reveals Himself to us as well as what He has revealed about Himself. Revelation is the Christian notion that “God chooses to be known” (McGrath, 2011, p. 152), it is the “unveiling or uncovering of who God is, who we are as human beings, and how God interacts with and in our world” (Lecture 2, GCU). This
Roman Catholicism signifies the continuance of the historical structured church as it developed in Western Europe, and is lead by the Pope. Distinguishing beliefs of Catholics consist of the doctrines of Transubstantiation and Purgatory, and unique practices include loyalty to the saints and Mary and to make use of the rosary. Eastern Orthodoxy (which consists of the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches and quite a few others) is the continuance of the historical structured church as it developed in Eastern Europe. It varies from Catholicism in its rejection of commitment to the Pope, its prominence on the use of representation in worship, and
During his speech, Luther advocates his belief in sola scriptura. Then, in 1525, when Zwiglian Protestants publish the Twelve Articles, they give an explanation of the scripture which displays sola scriptura (Doc 6). Catholics believed in salvation through good works. Thomas Kempis, a Catholic, defines the importance of good works in his book The Imitation of Christ (Doc 1). He
He also believed that God had already chosen who would be saved when they were born. I think people were drawn to his beliefs because he offered a pure translation of Christianity. Ignatius of Loyola was the leader of the Counter-Reformation. He was born in Spain in 1491. He was a Catholic priest.