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- 71: Philosophy - Davide Hume
- ... which attack Christianity. In one passage Hume notes that the first Protestant reformers were fanatical or "inflamed with the highest enthusiasm" in their opposition to Roman Catholic domination. In the second passage he labels Roman Catholicism a superstition which "like all other species of superstition... rouses the vain fears of unhappy mortals." The most vocal attack against Hume's History came from Daniel MacQueen in his 300 page Letters on Mr ...
- 72: Touch Wood By Renée Roth-Hano
- ... secret. Renée and her sisters love their new school, which is much more spacious and modern than the one in Paris. Renée¹s main concern is confusion over her religious identity. They must convert to Catholicism to perfect their disguise. Their parents have given permission for Renée and her sisters to be baptized and to take their first communion. They decide to pray to the Catholic god to make the war ...
- 73: The Role Of Women In Sir Gaiwa
- ... evils of the flesh. St. Augustine felt that it was not the act of intercourse that was sinful but the passion necessary to perform it. It is the bodily passions that are mistrusted in Medieval Catholicism, for they weaken reason and will. This is exactly what happened to Gawain, his passion was aroused by his 'luf-talk' with the Lady, weakening his will and opening him up to other sins which ...
- 74: Touch Wood
- ... secret. Renée and her sisters love their new school, which is much more spacious and modern than the one in Paris. Renée¹s main concern is confusion over her religious identity. They must convert to Catholicism to perfect their disguise. Their parents have given permission for Renée and her sisters to be baptized and to take their first communion. They decide to pray to the Catholic god to make the war ...
- 75: The Awakening 2
- ... book based on French Creoles and their lifestyle which is expressed throughout the novel. Creoles were French Creole Society descendents of French and Spanish Colonists of the 1700s. They had strong family ties because of Catholicism and were a tight community because they where considered outcasts of Anglo- American society. Clement Eaton says that the Creoles, to a greater degree then Anglo-Americans, lived a life of sensation and careless enjoyment ...
- 76: The European Enlightenment
- ... and the Jansenists. Louis's threat as he saw it was that of the Protestant Huguenots. He destroyed their churces, burnt their schools and forced Protestants under fear of imprisonment or death to convert to Catholicism. Rene Descartes, in the seventeenth century, attempted to use reason to secure his faith. He tried to clear everything and begin with a blank slate with the bare minimum of knowledge: basically that only of ...
- 77: Oscar Romero
- ... flourished and his reputation grew. He established a succession of new organizations and inspired many with his sermons, broadcasted by five local radio stations and heard across the city. Romero was impressed of the new Catholicism that was affirmed with such confidence in Vatican II. In 1970 he became auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, and there he busied himself with administration. In 1974 he became bishop of a rural diocese, Santiago ...
- 78: Loneliness=craziness In Robins
- ... the world around them. Several crusades were fought throughout this period and in the end England and France became “Christianized.” Robinson Crusoe was published during the Baroque Era and it contained a great amount of Catholicism. Crusoe becomes a good Christian during his lonely stay on the deserted island and he also converts his companion Friday when he arrives on the island from cannibalism to Christianity. Crusoe believes that God put ...
- 79: Canterbury Tales - Medieval Ch
- ... to a mother-like goddess ? The answer is simply because they thought their "new found Goddess" would never be as harsh on people as the often criticized male like aspect of God. In both current Catholicism and that of the medieval period, Mary is worshipped with more fervor than even God or Jesus. Church after church was (and still is) erected in her name. Her likeness graced statues and stained glass ...
- 80: Gods Grandeur
- As a Jesuit priest who had converted to Catholicism in the summer of 1866, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s mind was no doubt saturated with the Bible (Bergonzi 34). Although in "God’s Grandeur" Hopkins does not use any specific quotations from the Bible, he ...
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