Essays 61 - 90
5, "First Conflicts with the State," begins by pointing out that early Christianity had a violent beginning.i The first section ex...
Pliny and Trajan This is the first section of chapter 6, "Persecution in the Second Century," and it deals with the actions of Pl...
Lofty Criticism As mentioned in the previous chapter, due to the Roman policy towards Christianity throughout the second century ...
this chapter is on describing the variety of backgrounds and experience that informed early interpretations of the gospel message....
chapter by explaining that the writings of the apologists were all in response to specific topics, such as issues dealing with per...
of Early Christians Gonzalez begins this chapter by pointing out that surviving documents by the leaders of the church or those d...
Gonzalezs text, "The Great Persecution and the Final Victory," focuses on Christian persecution under Diocletian, which is charact...
Constantine, Chapter 13 From Rome to Constantinople: This section describes the rule of Constantine from his initial victory and ...
New Order, Chapter 26 The Barbarian Kingdoms: Gonzalez points out that while, the Roman perspective was that the invaders were si...
1: The Call for Reformation Justo L. Gonzalez begins chapter 1 of his text on Christian history, The Reformation to the Present D...
Chapter 2: Martin Luther: Pilgrimage to Reformation Martin Luther Justo Gonzalez begins his discussion of Luther by describing ho...
Chapter 3: Luthers Theology The Word of God In this chapter, Gonzalez picks up Luthers story in 1521, which is when he appeared b...
5: Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation Zwinglis Pilgrimage Nationalism and humanism both contributed to the Lutheran reforma...
Chapter 6: The Anabaptist Movement The First Anabaptists In this chapter, Gonzalez addresses the criticisms that were leveled at ...
Chapter 7: John Calvin Gonzalez begins this chapter by identifying John Calvin, a theologian of the second generation after Luthe...
12: The Catholic Reformation The Reformation of Spanish Catholicism Gonzalez begins the chapter by pointing out that the needs fo...
8: The Reformation in Great Britain Henry VIII Gonzalez begins this chapter by describing the convoluted course of events that le...
Chapter 25: Political Horizons: The United States Gonzalez begins this chapter by briefly summarizing the sociopolitical atmosphe...
Chapter 35: Protestantism in the United States From World War I to the Great Depression 750 Gonzalez begins this chapter by point...
(Hammond). Some fled to the southern Alps. John Wycliffe from England and John Hus from Bohemia have been called pre-reformers. ...
not a success. Methods of torture: Although it was infamous for it, the Spanish Inquisition didnt use torture very often, and whe...
Up until the Reformation, the Protestant Revolution of the sixteenth century, to contradict the teachings of the Catholic Church w...
the Reformation had yet to influence the church policies of the Netherlands, and was limited to "local resistance to the sacrament...
or "sold" forgiveness for a dead individual to a living one in order that they could be allowed into heaven. There was also the is...
European Renaissance occurred between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was a cultural movement with revelations in intellectual lif...
In five pages this paper examines a period from the earliest days of Christianity to the Reformation period in a consideration of ...
In ten pages this research paper examines society after the Reformation in a consideration of the effects of Protestantism and its...
In six pages this paper examines Martin Luther's life, his works, and his influences upon the Reformation and the evolution of Pro...
In five pages this research paper examines these Reformation thinkers' perspectives upon salvation, sin, and faith. There are two...
held by the Church. This refutation of long held religious beliefs was something that turned on end the way people thought. It c...