Essays on Anabaptists

The Renaissance was a period in Europe that happened between the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Most history scholars consider it as the main point of connection between the middle age and the modern history. Renaissance started in Italy, and arrived in the other European countries in the succeeding years. The period of the Renaissance was the first step towards religious revolution, commonly referred to as Protestant Reformation (Tankard, n.p). It is probably the political circumstances of the sixteenth century that led to its success in some places and failure in others. The Renaissance period was a mark of major ...

Throughout the biblical history from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible talks about persecution/suffering and caring for the needy. The Old Testament does not emphasize it the way Jesus puts it in the New Testament. The Christian point of view of these two concepts is reflected by utilizing the examples set by Jesus, when He came to earth to save the souls of men. Jesus gave some teachings on why suffering and persecution was part of the Christian path and why it was the responsibility of Christians to care for the needy in the fulfillment of the God’s purpose ...

Immigration to the United States

Since the creating of the British Colonies in the new world called America, immigrants have come from around the world to fulfill their dreams. Over time, there have been periodic influxes of immigrants from various countries that have had an impact on the growth and development of the United States. This is a brief look at some of those periods.

The middle of the eighteenth century saw a large influx of immigrants from Germany, with most immigrants settling in the Pennsylvania territory. Many fled Germany because of wars, famines, and high taxes. They were also seeking religious freedom that ...

The process of Galileo - inquisitorial trial of 70-year-old physicist and astronomer Galileo, held in 1633 in Rome. Galileo was accused of supporting the banned public heliocentric system of Copernicus, which the Catholic Church has earlier condemned as heretical doctrine (1616). As a result of the process, despite the agreement to renounce Copernicanism and repent, Galileo was sentenced to life in prison, which was soon changed to the house arrest and lifetime supervision of the Inquisition. “Galileo process subsequently became a symbol of the confrontation between science and religion - or, more generally, freedom of thought and dogmatic (political or ...

Introduction

The Protestant Reformation was one of the most earth-shattering moments in European religious history; the split of the Christian Church between Catholicism and Protestantism started out small, with Martin Luther’s thesese, and quickly spread and developed throughout Europe. The impact of the Reformation on European life and religion was vast and widespread, as well as far more complex than anyone could have anticipated – different regions had different reactions to the Reformation, leading to distinct reactions to the huge religious change in different parts of the continent. The work of Pettegree (1992), Dickens (1993) and Duke (2000) strives to ...

Introduction

Reformation was a powerful religious movement aimed at reforming the teaching and the organization of the Christian Church, which originated in Germany in the beginning of the XVI century. It spread rapidly across Europe and led to the separation of Roman Catholic Church and the formation of a new form of Christianity - Protestantism. Reformation movement was of great importance for the history of Europe, and for the history of the world as a whole. In the Middle Ages, the whole society was strictly subordinated to the Church, which had a strong influence on the social structure of European countries. The social structure of ...