Essays on Christianity Page 3

The Protestant Reformation was a 16th century movement that originated in Germany. The German monk Martin Luther is the person who initiated the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation was initiated by Martin Luther because in his eyes there were clear abuses going on in the Roman Catholic Church. The Protestant Reformation was initiated by Martin…

Review of Common Ethical Issues Normative ethics determines how people ought to act, live, and be (Kagan, 2018). It describes an ethical dilemma, in which there is a justifiable reason for actions and consequences (Kagan, 2018). Normative ethical theories break off into three categories: virtue ethics, consequential ethics, and deontological ethics (Kagan, 2018). Virtue ethics…

The Middle Ages, also known as the medieval era, is a time frame, in Europe, of about 1,000 years that dates from the early fifth century through the fifteenth century. The medieval era is responsible for producing some of the most brilliant works of literature by some of the most brilliant authors. These literary works…

At around 1500 many northern humanists had thought that the Roman Catholic church lost the spiritual mission Jesus had proclaimed in his lifetime. They said that the popes acted as political warriors instead of being moral leaders. The church as a whole thought that money was more important than saving souls. This created a new…

The premise of Confucian teachings are centered around the idea of Jen or the virtue of humanity (Ching 68). To accomplish this divinity, five relationships must be honored: ruler and minister, father and son, husband and wife, elder and younger brother, and friend and friend (Hopfe). These relationships led a push for a revolution of…

Christianity and the American Revolutionary WarHarry Stout points out in the lead article, How Preachers Incited Revolution, “it was Protestant clergy who propelled colonists toward independence and who theologically justified war with Britain” (n. pag). According to Cassandra Niemczyk in her article in this issue of Christian History “(the Protestant Clergy) were known as “the…

I keep wondering about these “family values ” and the idea that there was a time when families had more or better values than families have today. There seems to be a consensus among the fundamentalists that if we could just get back to those values, all of our problems would be solved. I have…

An environmentalist is a person worships the environment and cares for nature more than people. Christians and others share the common perception that environmental ethics exist for how human beings should relate to the land, the free market perceptive and the environmental perceptive. Humans share a relationship with all creations of the earth. But as…

As an outsider who shares many values with sincere and faithful Christians, I amtroubled with the apparent lack of effectiveness of their most common approaches tothe current HIV crisis. The Christian ultimate objective of saving souls is not universallyshared, and arguments from that perspective will not be persuasive to a generalaudience. However, even if we…

You can not put a value on a Christian education because it creates a setting of respect for God, His Word and His authority. It gives students a foundation of discipline, morality and a proper work ethic that can also be applied in other areas of life. Christians were actually the first to advocate universal…