Roman Catholic Thirty Or 40 Years Ago

4. Analyze the changes in American religious life in the late nineteenth century, including the expansion of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Judaism, and the growing Protestant division between liberals and fundamentalists over Darwinism and biblical criticism

Hey Diana, I am writing this letter today with hopes to inform you about a religions course I am taking. I know you are a history guy so I thought it would be interesting to write about the religious history of America. The United States happens to be one of very few major nations in history to be founded and established on principles of separation of church and state. This book I am reading, “The Religious History of America”, by Edwin Gaustad and Leigh Schmidt, gives a great overview of the different strand of religious development in the United States. They are divided into four fundamental time periods: the Colonial times; the Revolutionary War to the Civil War; Post Civil War to

4. Often in research, religious groups are compared to one another on social and political attitudes and beliefs (e.g., Roman Catholics are compared to Protestants, Muslims, and Jews). Discuss why this might be problematic and

What are some unfortunately common areas where church members insist or demand their own preference? Why do you think that happen?

How much does a society’s environment and experiences influence the nature of its values and religious beliefs? It is a question that we as a human being should ask ourselves daily in our life. The collective nature off society environment and experiences will and indefinitely affect their religious belief. It affects people in their daily lives, in everything they want to do or they don’t want to do. Unconsciously it becomes part of human’s life no matter how hard they try to ignore it once they adapt it it’s hard to get rid of such influence. People in the past has experienced it as well as people of modern world.

Assess the view that religious beliefs and practices are changing to reflect a new era of diversity and choice.

The Protestant Reformation often gets the lion’s share of attention when discussing religious reform and renewal during the Early Modern period. However, to state that the Reformation was the only significant shift in the ideology and practice of Christianity would be to greatly undersell the importance of a myriad of religious reformers that denounced the decrepit and outdated relationship between mainstream religious practice and God. For this new wave of religious reformers, the traditions of the mainstream Church (whether Protestant or Catholic) were getting in the way of godly men and women forging a personal relationship with their savior, one in which the individual is brought into the grace of God through a true lasting connection

Religion has incredible power all throughout history. There were constantly religious wars taking place. Some specific examples of religious wars would be the Renaissance or the Crusades. During these wars, societies were quite separated, as religion was a huge part of your identity during this time period. The following paper will discuss the effects on religion on people from two different time periods.

There has also been a decline in spiritual enrichment in churches to its followers which has allowed new religions and new age innovations to come up. Christians convert to these religions trying to look for spiritual enrichment and fulfillment. “Christian knowledge is being challenged with scientific and worldly knowledge. There is no longer the idea of one truth, one correct body of knowledge,” (Bruce, 1996). In a world based on facts, Christians are continually looking for facts of God’s existence and they forget that faith believes in the unseen.

The roles of people in the church were redefined, as the Pope established himself clearly as a man of action, and not unreachable ‘God like’ figure. He did not submit to his power and instead worked together and worked for the people to make worshipping Christ more meaningful. The sacraments were developed to involve the congregation and improve the expression of Christian beliefs as the church was modernized and clericalism was removed.

The church has changed significantly across the years. Different pope’s and era’s of the church and its history show how far it has advanced since its beginnings. These changes has helped it become more open to all kinds of people and cultures. I believe this gives hope to the catholic church’s faithful as the history of the pope’s and the church show that it’s willing to be more open to the people that follow the religion that goes with it.

In this report I will be comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between the religious tradition Christianity, with the world view of Secular Humanism.

We are often faced with grave questions in our faith. We look left or right, turn an ear to hear what people are saying. We hear ideas like; ‘God wants you to be successful’. Or perhaps; ‘you are not your own, it is not you who lives but Christ’. We have to ask these hard questions.

God is an important part of my life everyday from the moment I wake up to when I go to bed. Since I was a little kid my mom has always taught me the values of being a catholic. Being catholic doesn't mean going to church every Sunday and confessing your sins to later do them again. Being catholic means engaging with god and finding a deeper meaning during church. Being catholic means knowing and loving god as a human being. Being catholic means talking to god about your sins and finding ways to being a better person in life. God is a part of our life day to day he influences us in becoming a better catholic. Being catholic means finding ways to serve god through our life's vocation and trying to live out the core values of a catholic. God challenges