In reading a selection from Martin Luther’s On the Freedom of a Christian Luther expressed many of his views on just what the title of his book states: the freedom of a Christian. First, Luther says that a Christian should live by faith in God alone rather than completing works. He says that by doing … More Some of Luther’s Ideas in ‘On the Freedom of a Christian’
The Catholic Church had a wide variety of things happening on the eve of the protestant reformation. These things varied from piously holy things to worldly things. Before the reformation, widespread preaching by figures such as St. Bernardino of Siena and St. John Capistrano held the attention of many Christians resulting in high attendance rates. … More Pre-Protestant Reformation
I was asked to write about whether Boccaccio’s Decameron and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales where closer in outlook to the Greek, and Roman literature that I have read than to the Hebrew, Christian, and medieval literature that I have read. My opinion is that the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales are much more similar to … More The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
Most Christian writers were not against the Greek philosophers’s writings, they thought that some of the works were a bit similar to their view of Christianity. Some Christian teachers taught all about Greek philosophers except the Atheist ones of course. However there were a few people in the Christian community who highly apposed Greek writings, … More Christian View of Greek Writings
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