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- 151: American Hawaii
- ... this anarchy and decided that things must be put under control. Without their religion, the Hawaiians were barbarians. The missionaries built houses and settled in at Hawaii. Then they worked on converting the Hawaiians to Christianity. Most of the Hawaiians were easily converted to Christianity. But some of the old ones still wouldn t give up there beliefs. The missionaries set up schools and churches. They taught them how to read and write. They set up a printing press and printed copies of the Bible in Hawaiian language. From 1837 to 1843, 27,000 Hawaiians were converted to Christianity. Before the missionaries had come, they had no guilt wearing no clothes or having sex in public! Hawaiians lived in worry free. But Hawaii s culture was fading away. America liked Hawaii for its ...
- 152: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... In the late 5th century the Frankish chieftain Clovis defeated the Romans, and he established a kingdom that included most of Gaul and southwestern Germany. He converted his subjects, believers in a heretical offshoot of Christianity known as Arianism, to orthodox Christianity. Carolingian Germany Clovis's work was carried on in the 8th century by Charlemagne, who fought the Slavs south of the Danube, annexed southern Germany, and ferociously subdued and converted the pagan Saxons in the northwest. As champion of Christianity and supporter of the papacy against the restive people of Rome, Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in Rome in 800. This milestone event revived the Roman imperial tradition ...
- 153: Catacombs
- ... with great strength by defeating the accusations of those crimes as being false and groundless and by producing the contents of their faith. Bibliography 1.) Celebrating Sacraments Joseph Stoutzenberger 2.) Church and State in Early Christianity, ca. 30-600 Hugo Rahner Translated by Leo Donald Advise 3.) The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity John McManners 4.) The Rise of Christianity W.H.C. Frend
- 154: Islam 2
- ... the world is referred to as the Arab world. This realm is one the richest in the world of historical and cultural point of view. It has been the origin of three of four religions; Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The Islam is the major religion in the "Arab World", but along with it Christianity and Judaism take an important place. It is also a region of intense conflict basically on religious and cultural issues. The Islam started to spread out more than thousand years ago, A.D. 613, with the work of Muhammad the Prophet. This man began to receive messages from Allah and soon he started preaching among his people. The Islam could be interpreted as an improvement or revision of the Christianity and Judaism. In someway Islam brought to the Muslim world not only uniting religion but also a new set of values, understandings, a whole new way of life. After the death of Muhammad the ...
- 155: Council Of Nicea
- ... Constantine was the emperor in Rome at the time when he called the Council of Nicea in 325 CE. Constantine was originally a worshipper of the sun god. Later in his life he converted to Christianity. His reign marked the beginning of the joining of church and state. The pagans no longer persecuted Christians. Instead, Christians persecuted others, including other Christians. Christians killed more Christians in the first century after the ... Fausta, in an overheated bath. Then he had his sister's son killed and his sisters husband strangled. It was also during the reign of Constantine that the cross became a sacred symbol in Christianity, just as it had been in pagan religions. Throughout his reign Constantine treated the bishops poorly, but he did agree to enforce whatever opinion the majority of the bishops came up with. The decisions of ... They signed one of the most famous of all historical documents. It was called the Edict of Milan, which acknowledged the right of Catholics to worship, and dissolved the ancient law whereby the profession of Christianity was considered a capital offense. The traditional form of the Nicean Creed reads as follows: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and ...
- 156: Centralization Of Control In M
- ... religious and secular world gave them increased power as well. In 1070, St. Anselm used logic to "prove" the existence of God. By supporting the theology of the church, he received respect for his work. Christianity's most dedicated believers were vital to their plan for increased centralization. The standardization of practices in monasteries was an attainable and straightforward method of increasing the churches control. If each monastery was less able ... controlling his churchdom could become. No circumstance was more enlightening to the topic of the Pope's control over his domain than the treatment of heretics. A heretic was a person who did not acknowledge Christianity as the one true religion and refused to conform. A revealing example of this is the church's treatment of the Albigensians in the early thirteenth century. We learn the story of the Albigensians, not ... for their own way of life, the Pope wanted his views to be the only ones were accepted. He achieved this goal by means of a crusade. The crusade allowed him to rally support for Christianity and his power as Pope. Unlike the monasteries and universities mentioned earlier, the Pope's actions toward heretics were at the forefront of the expansion of the Christian way and of the centralization of ...
- 157: Czechoslovakia
- ... Hungary and, for a short time, the whole of Bohemia. Perhaps the most important thing about the Great Moravians is that theirs was the first legal sort of state structure in the area to accept Christianity, and the cultural development of the Greater Moravian Empire is inseparably linked to the spread of the eastern Byzantine liturgy of Sts Cyril and Methodius, who came to these parts in 863. They were invited by the Moravians - who were interested in Christianity but couldn't understand the language in which it was preached at the time. Cyril and Methodius were chosen for the mission because they understood and were able to speak in the Slavic tongue (again ... though his real name was not Cyril but Constantine). The beginning of a written Slavic language was to be of enormous importance to Slavic nations in the Middle Ages. On the downside, the introduction of Christianity to this territory was so overwhelmingly successful that we know very little today about the pre-Christian religion of the pagan Slavs. The Greater Moravian Empire disintegrated thanks to the Hungarian invasion of 903 ...
- 158: Essat On Taiwan Now And Then
- ... War, and as a result four Tientsin treaties were concluded during June, 1858. Based on the Tientsin treaties, Tamsui, Keelung, Anping and Takao were opened to the West, and western missionaries were allowed to propagate Christianity in Taiwan. The summaries of treaties signed at that time were: (1) Abolish government monopoly of camphor business, permit foreigners and their employees to freely buy and sell camphor products; (2) Permit foreign merchants to travel freely in Taiwan; (3) Indemnify for the losses of churches, forbid the residents to slander Christianity; (4) Missionaries are given the right to live in Taiwan and propagate Christianity; (5) Complications between the natives and foreigners should be jointly judged by Ch'ing authorities and the British Council. In 1871 an incident occurred where sixty-six Miyakojima residents of Ryukyu drifted into southern ...
- 159: Definition Of American Democra
- ... justifications in their arguments defining the institution as a source of positive good, a legal definition, and as an economic stabilizer. The proslavery supporters often used moral and biblical rationalization through a religious foundation in Christianity and supported philosophic ideals in Manifest Destiny to vindicated slavery as a profitable investment. They also examined the idea of popular sovereignty and the expansion of slavery in territorial plans like the Kansas-Nebraska scheme ... of the Bible and the philosophy of the wise Aristotle. The moral and biblical justification surrounding their belief that the relations between slave and man, however admitting to deplore abuses in it, was compatible with Christianity, and that the presence of Africans on American soil was an occasion of gratitude on the slave's behalf before God - basically, the slaves should have been grateful for their bondage. Plantation owners even stressed religion by teaching the slaves the principles of Christianity and by brainwashing the slaves into thinking they were blessed by God to be given a master who cares for them and a Christian family to live with. In accordance with religion, proslavery Southerners ...
- 160: Sociopolitical Philosophy in the Works of Stoker and Yeats
- ... by many Western Europeans at the time. Stoker makes it clear to the reader that the vampire, or the practice of mixing races, is demonic and anti-Christian. He does this by offering perversions of Christianity in the novel. The first of these occurs with the character of Renfield, a fifty-nine year old madman who comes under the influence of Dracula. The character of Renfield foreshadows the social disruption and ... in other words, modern civilization. Before most of the characters experience the wrath of Dracula, Renfield begins to act wild and speaks of the arrival of his lord. This is one of the perversions of Christianity that Stoker employs to show the demonic nature of the vampire. Dr. Seward notes in his diary, All he would say was:- I don't want to talk to you: you don't count now ... form of John the Baptist. Just as John the Baptist prepared people for the coming of Christ, Renfield prepares people for the coming of his lord and master, Dracula. Another example of a perversion of Christianity is Lucy Westenra. After her blood has been drained several times by the Count, she finally dies on September 20th. An article in the Westminster Gazette dated September 25th reads: During the past two ...
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