Council of Constance

The beginning of the renaissance started in the 1400’s in Florence. Many turned towards Humanism which was an emphasis on man's qualities and power. Idealistic realism was showed through the paintings in this time. Idealistic realism was a way of painting people as real as possible, to how they would look like in life. Michelangelo demonstrated this technique through his statue, The David. The Renaissance also focused on what is now called the "ideal renaissance man", which was an athletic looking

The Thirty Years’ War marked the end of Reformation and was the last major religious war in Europe. Whilst it started as a religious war between the Catholic Habsburg leader and the Protestant Bohemians in the Holy Roman Empire, during its progress it became a European war, where most of the dominant powers got involved. Soon the religious focus shifted and the war became more about power, influence and territories. The consequences of the war and the Treaty of Westphalia were long lasting and complex

Metalwork and Miscellanea Kate Harvey was a surprising lady, even without the occurrence which lies at the heart of the acclamation. She was, for a begin, an expert lady in what was all that much the man's universe generally Victorian Britain. She was, in addition, an expert in that most brave of new trains - physiotherapy - about which the British Medical Journal was raising concerns. To numerous respectable Victorians this biomechanical perspective of the body in wellbeing and disease sounded uncomfortably

In the 1840’s, most of American women were beginning to become agitated by the morals and values that were expected of womanhood. “Historians have named this the ’Cult of True Womanhood’: that is, the idea that the only ‘true’ woman was a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family” (History.com). Voting was only the right of men, but women were on the brink to let their voices be heard. Women pioneers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott wrote eleven

The Moravian church, with origins in ancient Bohemia and Moravia, has influenced many for over five centuries, and, a visible part of the Christian Church, its influence has far exceeded its numbers. The Moravian Church is a denomination within the Protestant religion, and Moravians share the same core beliefs as all Christians, including that Jesus Christ was born, died, and resurrected. In this research paper, I will begin with an overview of the Moravian religion and then go on to outline the

The Morning Star of Inspiration John Wycliffe was a 14th-century English philosopher, theologian, and religious reformer, whose egalitarian ideas and beliefs laid the foundation for the Protestant Reformation. As Peter W. Williams notes in the World Book Advanced, Wycliffe was born sometime between 1320 and 1330 A.D. in Yorkshire, England, and was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford (Williams). According to Alessandro Conti in his entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, John

church into disrepute and wakened the religious faith of many. C. The conciliar movement 1. Conciliarists believed that church authority rested in councils representing the people--not the authority of the pope. 2. Marsiglio of Padua had claimed in 1324, in Defensor Pacis, that authority within the church should rest with a church council and not the pope and that the church was subordinate to the state. 3. John Wycliffe attacked papal authority and called for even more radical reform

IMMIGRATION POLICY 1 IMMIGRATION POLICY 2 A Historical Analysis of Immigration Policy Calli N. Morrison & Constance R. Tullis School of Social Work University of Little Rock Author Note Calli N. Morrison and Constance R. Tullis are students at the School of Social Work at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Correspondence should be addressed to Calli N. Morrison and Constance R. Tullis, School of Social Work, Ross Hall, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Avenue

word. Inasmuch as Noke was justly required to prove financial responsibility for six adults and two children, it appeared that we needed an additional co-sponsor, which (Thank God) Noke eventually found through the Wereldraad van Kerken (the World Council of Churches) who directed him to work with the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California. As a result, the church agreed to serve as our primary sponsor with Noke serving as our co-sponsor. The signed affidavit of the sponsor’s and

Around the last half of the 11th century, Pope Gregory VII not only enacted moral alterations within the Church that had continuous effects, but the Pope also clashed with a political leader Henry IV. This indicates that these changes are defined as a revolution because a revolution is a sudden and vast change that has lasting effects. Although most of the prominent modifications enacted by Pope Gregory VII altered the ethical lives of Church leaders still remain important today, the doctrines established