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    Let's start with Protestants. The time period I’m going to be talking about was when King Charles V was in charge. King Charles V was the Holy Roman Emperor of Spain and many low countries. While he was ruling, in 1530, many German Princes joined Lutheranism and opposed him. Due to that he became controlling and many others join Lutheranism as well. Charles V waged war on Protestant Germany to try and get control back to the catholic church he did not do so great. But there are some other people

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    Hymns In America

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    I needed a more detailed account of the history and practices of the Swedish-American Church. What were the interactions like between the churches in America and the churches in Sweden? How did different denominations function and interact? I choose to include this article because the author answers these questions in the specific context of hymns. Hymns embody the experiential nature of religion as songs of adoration and worship. The author of the article, George Ericson, begins by detailing the

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    resulting in his actions to “remove ties from the Catholic Church and establish himself as the head of the Christian faith in England” (Brinkley 21). After King Henry’s death, his daughter, Queen Mary, restored the Catholic faith and persecuted Protestants. Later when Mary died, Elizabeth I, once again broke away from Catholicism. The result of switching religions

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    We Catholics are good at a lot of things. Helping arre neighbors and the needy. Repenting and dressing up on Sunday. Catholic guilt, wedding and funerals. All these thing Catholic are good at but what they really excel at is misinterpreting the Bible and spreading hate. For generation we have used the Bible to justice pretty un- catholic things: slavery and segregation and even war. The strange things is that if you ask any theologians young or old what the most important message of the bible they

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    The Church has impacted society through numerous ways over history, although a major milestone was the implementation of indulgences and how it would come to tear the church apart in its current state, paving the way for a new future of Christianity. The Catholic Church in the medieval era acquired great amounts power through the spread of Christianity in Europe after the fall of Rome. With newly acquired followers, and the structure of the Church; the Pope essentially was a conduit to God, and

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    Martin Luther's Beliefs

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    indulgences. He then created the,” Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,”or known as the 95 Theses.This document was about the ninety-five things that were wrong with the Catholic Church.This document, later, would become the basis of the Protestant Reformation. These were given out to the people in Germany

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    Thesis: Martin Luther believes that all Christians are not seen as equals as a result of the Romanists’ three walls. First Wall The first wall is the fact that spiritual power reigns over temporal power, but Luther comes to the conclusion that they don’t differ as much as most think, so he dismisses the idea of what most would consider spiritual power. He thinks all Christians are “consecrated to priesthood” (An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, 65), therefore no Christian

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    Roman Empire, it also spread to several other European countries. Then, John Calvin played a role in the Genevan Reformation. Following Lutheranism, Calvinism was the newest Protestant force that inspired resistances in Scotland, France, and the Netherlands. Calvin was very inspired by Luther’s ideas, when he became a Protestant

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    Contrasting the Doctrines of 16th Century Catholicism with Protestantism The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century threatened the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrinal and political authority over Europe. While instances of clerical corruption aroused dissonance, reformation was centered around conflicts of doctrine. In catholic theology, indulgences provide partial or full remission of temporal punishment for transgressions that have been forgiven. Indulgences were a product of the Crusades

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    Divine Sexuality

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    Essentially, to all outward appearances in today’s world, this correlation of the long ago ’mystical faithful’ of the kingdom, the true holy brotherhood of the church, appears to be on the ‘endangered species list.’ Possibly through the diverse centuries, lust, power, money, greed, neglect or the combination of all, may have been the incentive for their departure from God’s Truths. Substantially, the lack of integrity and sacredness of the brotherhood’s sexual relationship with God appears as if

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