Crawford challenges some of the historical accounts of the First Crusade. It is often reported erroneously in historic accounts of the First Crusade that the soldiers "…appeared basically without warning, storming into the Holy Land with the avowed -- literally -- task of slaughtering unbelievers" (Crawford, 2011, p
McCannon lists five factors that are considered important motivational reasons for the launch of the Crusades. McCannon: a) "genuine religious fervor" both with Christians and Muslims; b) an ongoing "geopolitical conflict between Europe and the Middle East"; c) the desire many Europeans had to become "…more involved in the international trade network stretching from the Mediterranean to China"; d) the passion for wealth and land that Europeans had, with an eye towards the Middle East; and e) "racial and religious prejudice" (McCannon, 2010, p
Did the Crusades advance the cause of Christ? According to a digitized volume originally published in 1864 by Partridge and Company, the Crusades were instigated chiefly by "the most superstitious and fanatical notions"; and these "soldiers of Jesus…carried destruction to those who knew him not. Is this the spirit of Christ or of his holy gospel? Is it not rather the spirit of Mahomet…" whose propaganda was always 'the sword or the Koran" (Meliora, p
Urban, as mentioned earlier in this paper, organized the knights of France in an effort to liberate Jerusalem in 1095. The idea was to return the holy city to Christians, and Urban offered "an unprecedented spiritual reward" for those soldiers who signed on to the First Crusade: "the remission of all their sins" (Phillips, 2009, p
Another historical figure linked to the Crusades was Frederick II, not as a warrior that used bloodthirsty strategies to take back Jerusalem, but as a different kind of Crusader, a leader fully capable of using diplomacy and negotiation. Frederick II was crowned the king of Sicily when he was just three years of age (in 1198) and he was king of Germany in 1212 and he became Holy Roman Emperor in 1220 (Takayama, 2010, p
' If our God, whom we serve, can save us from the white-hot furnace and from your hands, O king, may he save us! But even if he will not, know, O king, that we will not serve your god or worship the golden statue which you set up." (Daniel 3:16-18) "When the satraps, prefects, governors, and nobles of the king came together, they saw that the fire had had no power over the bodies of these men; not a hair of their heads had been singed, nor were their garments altered; there was not even a smell of fire about them
His power can calm the seas and still the storms of life that threaten to pull us under." (Jayne, 1) To elucidate the early development of the Bible from a linguistic and anthropological standpoint To connect this history with the proliferation of the truths of Christianity To examine a key transcript in consideration the implications of these truths as they were spread around the known world To connect these considerations to the experiences of the students in the classroom Materials Needed: "Song of the Three Holy Youths" Daniel 3:1-91 St
Thomas Aquinas the answer to the question if the death penalty should ever be allowed is "if a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good."(Campion 1967, 80)
Rhetorically skillful, the pope, speaking before an American audience, used the language of American jurisprudence rather than his faith, stressing the cruelty and unusual nature of capital punishment to condemn the death penalty, even as he made analogies between the death penalty and other medical issues in a way that might make some American Catholics uncomfortable. (Feister, 1999) Not all American Catholics who are outspoken against the death penalty have condemned capital punishment in the same language and terms
"What should we forgive? The first response to this question is, quite simply, everything we can," as Catholics, suggests Maria Harris. (Harris, 2000) She provides the humbling examples in other parts of the world where different groups have struggled with the issue of forgiveness of the most horrifying acts
Amen." (Prejean, 2000) Violence is violence, stresses the nun, even retributive violence by the state, and must thus be abolished
Luther had discovered or recovered the doctrine of justification by grace alone (Martin pp). October 31, 1517, the day Martin Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church causing a chain reaction of change in Western Christendom, is often listed as the 'Birthday of the Reformation' (Snyder pp)
Majority of public is not just in favor of same-sex relationships and marriages but they do also support elementary civil liberties and independence of expression of homosexuals overwhelmingly. This fact goes totally in contrast to strident division on these concerns in the 1970s (Harms, 2011)
According to GSS which is being conducted for last 40 years, there is an obvious rise in support of homosexual's civil liberties. Favor of gays' and lesbians' freedom of speech grew from 62 to 86% in between 1972 and 2010; provision for homosexual's teaching profession rose from 48% in 1973 to more than 84% in 2010 (Johann, 2011)
Up until the decades after Second World War in which Hitler just not only killed Jews but also homosexuals, there is no effective and influential gay right movement. This ineffectiveness was due to the fact that the homosexual community tends to represent minority and this is invisible minority because gay people do not represent themselves openly due to the fear of rejection or public humiliation (Mohr, 1994
American homosexuals started to shape themselves and fight for those rights which they didn't receive yet after being inspired by Africans American Civil Rights Movement. With this rise of activist, opponents appeared eventually and thus this issue of rights became a legal and controversial battle still being fought with no winning party (Nguyen, 1991
In contrast, the percentage of people who were against this relation dropped to 43 which was the lowest in Gallop's decade-long trend. This growing acceptance soared optimism among Gay Americans that one day issues regarding homosexuality will no longer divide the nation (Page, 2012
In 1998 Church leaders secretly persuaded then Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini to sell a block of Main Street to the church for $8.1 million (Mencimer Pp)
Hinckley and citizens can no longer use the space to protest, listen to music, sunbathe, skateboard, smoke, or do any of the other things they used to be able to do on the city street and sidewalks (Mencimer Pp). The Mormons are now a global church worth an estimated $25 billion and claiming 11 million members (Woodward Pp)
S., with 44,000 head of cattle on 300,000 acres which provides a revenue of an estimated $16 million (Barnett Pp