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- 761: Inquisision
- ... Church has a hierarchical structure with a central bureaucracy. In the early years of the church, there were several competing sects that called themselves Christian. But after the Emperor Constantine I (280?-337 CE) made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire and the local administrative structures were pulled together into one hierarchy centered in Rome, doctrinal arguments were settled by Church Councils, beginning with the Council of Nicea in ...
- 762: Christian Reformation
- ... and the church Luther was excomunicated from the church in the year 1521. That meant that he was not allowed to be a catholic priest anymore. After that he founded a completly new form of christianity - protestantism. A century later so many people were convinced by Luther´s new ideas of Christian religion that they founded new forms of Protestantism like Calvinism, Anabaptism and the Church of England.
- 763: Constantinople The Gateway Cit
- ... people enjoy many cultures of the world. There were only two requirements for citizenship: membership in a Christian Church and the ability to speak Greek. (Doc. C) With Constantine being a Christian, he believed that Christianity was the best religion for his city. Constantine was looking for the best for his city. Many of the structures during Constantine's rule are considered architectural wonders of the world. Of those structures, the ...
- 764: Italian Renaissance Vs.
- ... the north is easily distinguished with the “pagan” humanism of Italy. In the north, humanists studied the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible and read the Church Fathers so that they could further understand Christianity and restore its moral vitality. They generally regarded universities as centers of pedantic, monkish, and “scholastic” learning. These universities gave little interest to experimental science or even literary studies. The Italian humanists wrote in Latin ...
- 765: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- ... In 1837, he gave a well-known address called "The American Scholar" in which he outlined his philosophy of humanism. A year later, he gave another address, called "The Divinity School Address." This argued about Christianity at that time for being too traditional and ritualistic in its ways. These methods didn't fill the people's spiritual need. Emerson showed his liking under a new religion founded by nature. Truly, by ...
- 766: Crusades 3
- ... have been very satisfied with the amount of support the Crusade movement gained. For Emperor Alexius the crusades also represented a loss of authority. Urban II sent his crusades to fight for their brothers in Christianity. The leaders of the crusades intended to conquer the lands in their own name. However Emperor Alexius “demanded a oath of fealty in exchange for provisioning the armies as they marched to Palestine.”9 Although ...
- 767: Symbolism in Silas Marner
- ... tries to tie religion into the novel through Silas’s trances. Jerome Thale comments that “The meaning of Silas Marner as a moral allegory is obvious enough, and the symbols are the familiar ones of Christianity” (Silas Marner Criticism, 77). When Silas had the treasure it had killed his own spirit. After Eppie had come into his life his spirit came back to life. Just as the gold brings death to ...
- 768: Kristallnacht
- ... and sublime. This old Cross was bathed in the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and became transformed into the symbol of faith, hope, and love. Today it is used to rally the forces of Christianity against the ever increasing hordes of an anti-Christ and the enemies of America and the White Race. We light the Cross with fire to signify to the world that Jesus Christ is the light ...
- 769: Constantine The Great
- ... Jesus was crucified. The emperor was baptized shortly before his death, on May 22, 337. Constantine the Great unified a tottering empire, reorganized the Roman state, and set the stage for the final victory of Christianity at the end of the 4th century. Many modern scholars accept the sincerity of his religious conviction. His conversion was a gradual process; at first he probably associated Christ with the victorious sun god. By ...
- 770: Late Anglo-saxon Period Kings
- Late Anglo-Saxon Period Kings of Wessex By the time Edward the Martyr took the throne in 975, Christianity was widespread throughout England and the rest of Britain. Edward was born in 963, and was just entering his teenage years when his father, Edgar, died. He made a claim to the throne, as the ...
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