Allusions are used in this letter frequently, not only to establish a position, but also to create some emotional appeal for its readers. Martin Luther King Jr. used these allusions strategically, to hopefully convey his message to the eight Alabama clergymen who doubted him and his efforts. Using r...

Martin Luther was a revolutionary thinker born during the latter part of the fifteenth century in Catholic Germany. During this time the papacy in Rome was growing in stature and in corruption. Pope Leo X was working on the St. Peter's Basilica and was being creative in its financing. In o...

The Counter-Reformation was the movement within the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and 17th centuries that tried to eliminate abuses within the church and to respond to the Protestant Reformation. Loyola response to Luther accusations towards the church was made by forming the Society of Jesuits....

The settling of America began with an idea, the idea that people could join together and agree to govern themselves by making laws for the common good. They desired a place where men and women of deep religious convictions could come and practice their faith freely; a place where you could fulfill t...

Mary Tudor I Mary I was born in 1516 into the Tudor dynasty of England. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She was the only surviving child from her parent's marriage. Her early life consisted of neglect, intolerance, and bad health. She was a staunch catholic fr...

1.Religion and Violence: Catholicism, Islam, Judaism have historical periods of violence, either between factions within their religion or against other religions. Give a brief report on one of these with in the Catholic and Islam religions. How has religious violence been justified? Do you think th...

Before the powerful and well known monarchs of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, what is now known as England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland were ruled by a paganistic and heathenistic group of people called the Anglo-Saxons (Anglo-Saxon England and Wales" pg.2). These rulers...

Socialization: Christ Against Culture: A lot of the idea that Christ is opposed to culture makes sense. There's a lot of biblical support for it and it can easily resonate with one's experience. Jesus said, ""Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the ...

The Christian religion, like all other religions has its strengths and weaknesses in our modern society. Perhaps the strengths out weight the weaknesses as this is one of the largest religions in the world. Hundreds of people follow the Catholic/Christian religion yet still a greater numbe...

A LEADER AND HIS CONGREGATIONThere is an expanding church in Pine Hill that I attend each week. This church is filled with many great spiritual people who are like family in which you could share your struggles of life with and then listen to them as they help you get through those struggles...

Malachi is the last book of the Old Testament. It's a prophetic book written by Malachi. The possible date of the writing of this book is hard to say. Two of my sources have dif-ferent opinions on the date. One estimates a "date of 450-400 BC." The other resource says "397 BC." The name of...

The Development of Eschatological Events The development eschatological worldviews is by no means a single socio-historical event in European and American history. The fact is that examination and adherence to "apocalyptic texts have comforted the faithful, intrigued the curious and amused t...

New England and the Chesapeake's citizens may have the same English origin, but they each have very distinct, tightly knit societies. Every region has their own separate way of running their colony that causes differences in development to occur. So no matter where their origin, their new home decid...

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE EFFECTS BROUGHT ABOUT BY AND INDIVIDUAL FROM EITHER A PERIOD OF CRISIS AND DIVISION FROM EACH OF THE TWO TRADITIONS WITH REFERENCE TO THE AREA : CHALLENEGE TO TRADITION.Martin Luther and Moses Maimonides are two individuals that challenged their own religious traditions duri...

Cults&Sects Boston Church of Christ or CrossroadismThere is a group growing rapidly across the United States and the world called the Boston Church of Christ or the Crossroads. This cult is a highly aggressive movement that bases its doctrine on the Bible but many say is way off. Looking deeper into...

Jesus The Liberator The wonders of the life and death of Jesus have inspired many to follow in his footsteps. This is especially true in the case of oppressed people all over the world. In Jesus Christ, they find the wisdom and love that helps them to continue their fight for rights they know Go...

The Deed of Declaration 1784The Plan of Pacification 1795'The Deed of Declaration' by John Wesley in 1784, followed by 'The Plan of Pacification' in 1795 after his death, are historically significant documents within the Methodist movement in relation to its separation from the Church of England. Th...

Throughout the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church continued to assert itsprimacy of position. The growth of the papacy had paralleled the growth of thechurch, but by the end of the Middle Ages challenges to papal authority fromthe rising power of monarchical states had resulted in a loss of papal tem...

Christianity and Religion in RomeReligion in Rome was in no way dominated by only one religion. Throughout time Rome has had many uprisings in different religions among its people. Long before Christianity had really established its foothold in the Roman society, there were many other small religi...

A Review of Varacalli, Dr. Joseph. Bright Promise, Failed Community:Catholics and the American Public Order. 200. It is interesting to read the 2000 text of Catholic scholar Dr.Joseph Varacalli's Bright Promise, Failed Community in the wake of therecent controversies that have swept the nation ...

Causes and Effects of CrusadesTowards 1071 AD, Seldjuk Turks had grown powerful and had started conquering the East. Christians began to find it difficult to reach the holy places during their pilgrimages. The military expeditions planned and fought by western European Christians that began around 1...

Religion as a Social ForceThe Amerindians of the region had their own religious practices and ceremonies before the intervention of any Europeans. For the most part they were polytheistic-worshiping many gods. Much of their rites involved sacrifices, often times humans, as well as dancing singing a...

"The just shall live by faith"- St. Paul (1:11)St. Paul's letter to the Romans which is found in the bible inspired both Lutheranism and Calvinism. Both religions had two different interpretations of Paul's writings, but the theories came to both Martin Luther and John Calvin after reading it. Luthe...

The Episcopal Church came into existence as an independent denomination after the American Revolution. Today it has between two and three million members in the United States, Mexico, and Central America, all of which are under jurisdiction of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Edmond Bro...

The Christian religion, like all other religions has its strengths andweaknesses in our modern society. Perhaps the strengths out weight theweaknesses as this is one of the largest religions in the world. Hundreds ofpeople follow the Catholic/Christian religion yet still a greater number followyet o...