Ignatius's Final Letter To Smyrna Polycarp

Directions: Read the book! And while reading, feel free to make notes in the margins on pages that contain what you believe are critical moments in the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Give in-depth definitions for each of the terms below. Type thorough and thoughtful responses to each of the questions below. Each response should be between 250-300 words in length. Be prepared to submit your study guide to your Scripture teacher during the first week of school. A summer reading quiz will be given during

He mentions that multiple challenges that the Catholic Church is struggling with and in addition urgent challenges they are facing. The lack of priest in countries, also the decline of priest in others is a topic covered in this chapter. He also explains how in the present time it is a great deal harder to have a family go to church every Sunday for example, then it was years ago. The last line is a message from John Paul II, the pope mentioned at the beginning of this book on Catholicism. It reads, “Open wide the doors to Christ, and you will find true life.”; . Gerald O’Collins believes that this is the central message that sums up the Catholic religion. The creative use of this line as the ending of the book, shows how much research and effort Gerald O’Collins put into his book. It was a smart way to tie up lose ends and relate back to the introduction.

The last sentence of the poem, ““There is still murder in your heart” (14), is a powerful claim that suggests that a routine consisting of prayer, communion, or hymn singing will not dissolve the sin of the heart. However, seeing this claim from a different standpoint, this can also suggest that this dull routine is convenient when it comes to preserving an appearance of purity and grace. There is an image in the middle of the poem, “light swords” (7), that possibly represents sharp members of the congregation trying to deceive the church authorities and God. Their comfort to the routine is remarkable because it does not really make a difference at the end; the only thing that truly matters is the masked life they are trying to keep hidden. Readers may consider the arguments presented in this poem as the truth reaching out to the contemporary church and its followers to improve their relationship with

The first one is that pope is not God. That the pope is comparing himself to God on the same level. According to document 1 the author states “that the bishop (the pope) is head of the holy church. And certainly the apostles of Jesus Christ never constrained any man to believe this concerning himself.” It means that the pope is saying that the head of the church and that he is teaching false things about god’s word. The next critical thing is the selling of indulgences.

The bishop was an important position in the sovereign council, although it was an official of the church . His duties

The Lost Letters of Pergamum is a book by Professor Bruce W. Longenecker, is a fictional book of letters that are exchanged between the fictional characters Antipas, a benefactor of Rome, and Luke, a physician and writer of the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts. This book is artfully written to give the modern reader a glimpse into the context and culture of the first century church. Longenecker presents a stunning display of Christ’s life through these letters and also the effects of his life in his culture.

St. Ignatius of Antioch understood the Christian faith to be objective and sensible, stating that Christianity is fundamentally a religion based in historic, tangible realties . He was adamant to the fact that Jesus Christ was a real human with real flesh; he encountered real suffering and died a truly human death. Ignatius saw Christian faith and the person of Jesus Christ in such a way that it put him at odds with the Gnostics, who held to a Docetic Christology that was circulating widely among the Church. For Ignatius, this was a serious issue that needed to be addressed due to the purity of the faith and the truth it held. At stake was the validity of the incarnation, suffering, death, and resurrection of the person of Jesus Christ. If this is not real or true, Ignatius believed that man

The letter then ends with a great inspirational message, a message that conveys the desire of the pope to fix what needs to be fixed. The letter also gives the authoritative sense that the changes will be hard but they must happen. In just one letter Pope Innocent III has asserted his sphere of influence over Europe and it's people. "No one shall plead as an excuse difficulties of the journey or obstacles of strife..." No one shall plead excuses, that is, not the archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors or representatives of royalty through out the continent. Innocent III had essentially put out a summons and like a lord sending summons to his vassal, left people with only one option in how to answer the summon.

This led to people truly loving their spouse when they got married. One example of this is when John Calvin’s wife died he wrote about how “she was his best companion and how she had been a great help to his ministry.” This not only shows how women were being treated better but also showed how one loved their spouse during that time. These changes were encouraged by ideas such as the later marrying years for women and the caring for the bride and groom's happiness could have helped develop these changes. These changes in marriage more closely reflect the marriages of today they were done for love and so both people could have someone by their side

    "You learnt everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being" (375).     Chained to a dominant character who is so vast and yet so embryonic that he is not only protagonist but also, in many ways, his own antagonist, The Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, has been called "a broad satirical view of the modern world" (Holditch "Introduction" The Neon Bible xi). Since this short definition fails to explain that the view presented is primarily that of the slug-like character of Ignatius Jacques Reilly, it also fails to take into account that one's view from the womb is, of necessity, somewhat limited. Although Ignatius is thirty years old and has a Master's

There are many cultures around the world that do not expect clergy celibacy (Daly, 2009) including Christian denominations who allow ministers/priests to marry. These Churches demonstrate how marriage is compatible with the priestly life. These churches present a great example of how familial responsibilities are compatible with religious commitments. A study of married Evangelical ministers and Roman Catholic priests revealed that there were no significant differences in dimensions of religiosity or commitments to the parish between the celibate and married clergymen (Swenson, 1998). Both are

The prominent glaring topic that has to be dealt with is the teaching that wives should submit to their husbands. Many husbands today have taken this teaching too literally and have caused heartache in their marital relationships by demanding that the wives do everything that they say. The one thing that is left out in this way of thinking is that husbands should love their wives as Christ loved the church. Christ loved the church so much that he sacrificed himself for her. The husband should do the same thing. As Manfred T. Brauch has pointed out, “Paul is actually saying that when a wife who is a Christian submits herself to Christ and lets Him be the Lord of her life she will have no problem

I wish that you are doing well in teaching Theology to your new class in Avignon. I on the other hand, am doing well and have arrived in Utopia. From my last letter, The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, I have written to you about the struggles to the “blessed life” and finding true happiness. I have realized the temptations of earthly pleasures and have decided to contemplate about my mind and try to improve it. Therefore, on this trip, I do not want to focus on foreign goods for pleasure, but what these men act with each other in their and my definition of virtue.

He stipulates that man must love give himself to his wife, as Jesus gave Himself to the Church.

“Therefore, as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives to be their husbands in everything.”