1. After centuries of being a place for pilgrims‚ the Holy Land was conquered by Seljuk Turks. The Seljuk turks have closed the pilgrimage routes and attacked many Christian pilgrims. We have also been informed that they attacked Christian lands held by the Byzantines in Anatolia. 2. In 1096‚ a French monk known as “Peter the Hermit”‚ used it intense and fiery sermons to unite a group of disorganized peasants and soldiers. The group quickly went eastward for Constatinople in what is now being referred
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Bernard Hamilton. Religion in the Medieval West. Routledge‚ Chapman and Hall Inc.‚ 1986. 216 pp. The main ideals and values that Medieval people held widely came from their understanding of the Church and their place in the world. Hamilton takes a meticulous comb through several topics to help the reader understand how the formation of the early Medieval church was paramount to how the rest of the age played out. Without the basics set down by temporal authority there would have been no west to
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being saved. Originally the Catholic Church was the institution being able to calm Christian’s spirits through granting absolution. But since the reformation this security of entering heaven was missing. If absolution could no longer be received by the Pope in Rome there still was one simple guideline for Protestants‚ which was sticking to the Holy Book as good as possible. Being hardworking and loyal was a refugee a lot of Protestants fled to. This is where I think; having Weber’s theories in mind‚ “capitalism”
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How do systems create order? In the Middle Ages‚ and even now‚ people used systems to create order in their countries. They ranked the poor and the rich‚ the cows and the pigs and many other things. The most important one that ranked the whole population was the Feudalism system. It was used to put the wealthy people on top and the poor on the bottom. It was used to structure the population so that no confusion could be made. There were also many other systems that had the same concept as the feudalism
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story of a friend who visited the Galician (so-called ‘Ukrainian’) Uniat church in London. When the priest began praying for the ‘Pope of Rome’‚ my friend turned to one of the parishioners and asked him: ‘So you’re Catholic then?’ He was insulted by this and answered‚ ‘No‚ no‚ we’re Orthodox’ – ‘my pravoslavnye’. My friend then said‚ ‘But your priest is praying for the Pope’. To which he received the reply‚ ‘Oh‚ but that’s just him‚ I don’t know or care what he believes in‚ but we’re Orthodox’. I
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The Rise of the Papacy Barry Blankenship CHHI 301 - History of the Christian Church I Professor – Dr. Jeffrey S. Mayfield February 20‚ 2012 The Fall of A Great Empire and the Rise of the Papacy Before the fall of the Roman Empire you must stop and look at the power that was held within the millions of miles of land‚ building‚ people‚ cities‚ kings‚ and customs. The Roman Empire was not known for being just another city or empire but it was known for its strength‚ power and victories
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followers throughout the world. The Greek Orthodox church is autocephalous‚ that is‚ governed by its own head bishop. The head bishops of this autocephalous church may be called patriarch‚ metropolitan‚ or archbishop. These clergymen are much like the Pope in that they decide church doctrine and generally make the important decision on controversial topics. In its doctrinal statements‚ "the Greek Orthodox church strongly affirms that it holds the original Christian faith‚ which was common to East and
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scriptor (copier of manuscripts). Poggio moves up the ranks eventually becoming the Pope’s personal secretary‚ serving a total of seven popes. While at the Roman Curia‚ Poggio is exposed to the greed‚ prostitution‚ and over all corruption that takes place and is troubled by the lack of intellectual contemporaries. So when the Council of Constance dethrones Pope John XXII in 1413‚ stripping Poggio of his job‚ Poggio decides to take a gamble and go book hunting. Traveling through Germany and Switzerland
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point. The destruction of the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulcher by Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim‚ the capture of the city of Jerusalem by the Muslims and the ongoing tensions between the Christian Byzantine Empire and its Muslim neighbors‚ would prompt Pope Urban II to call for European Christians to take up arms and passionately state “whoever shall set forth to liberate the church of God at Jerusalem for the sake of devotion alone and not to attain honor or money will be able to substitute that journey
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cOURSE: ISSUES IN EARLY AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY RESEARCH PAPER Discuss the role of the church councils in shaping Christian doctrine‚ making reference to at least one doctrine that was reformed. 11/11/2013 Discuss the role of church councils in shaping Christian doctrine‚ making reference to at least one doctrine that was reformed. When Christianity took hold in the Roman Empire‚ doctrine had yet to be fixed. There have been more than seven church councils‚ but these crucial first seven
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