The Path to Freedom: Choosing Good and Rejecting Evil
What Does It Mean to Be Free?
To be free is not to live isolated from everyone and everything, or to be uninfluenced and unconditioned by anything. Freedom is the ability to respond appropriately and constructively to life’s calls. In this, we choose between good and evil. As we grow, we become more aware of these choices. Life is a game of call and response with which we conduct our existence. This response can be constructive or destructive. We are free when, in response to an internal or external
Read MoreA Summary of Key Christian Concepts
Read MoreWas There Really a Jesus?
Jesus’s history can be traced and dated through various sources:
- Jewish Testimonials: Though scarce outside of the Bible, these include religious and secular literature. Rabbinic writings mention Jesus infrequently. Historical texts by Josephus offer details about Jesus’s life with some sympathy.
- Roman Testimonials: Pliny the Younger mentions Christians as a sect. Tacitus discusses Christians during the burning of Rome and Nero’s accusations against them.
- Christian Testimonials:
Medieval Christianity and the Schism of the East
Medieval Christianity
The Evangelization of Europe
When the Western Roman Empire collapsed (476), the Eastern Roman Empire could not defend the Romans from barbaric harassment. At that time, the Pope became the only real moral authority to address the problems of Rome. Thus, the structure of the Church served not only to guide the Church but also to lead civil society. The Popes possessed the surrounding territories of Rome (Papal States) and were endowed with a religious and political organization.
Read MoreHistory of the Church: Clergy, Benefices, and Notable Figures
The Church and its Clergy
Medieval Priests
The clergy were those who worked in charge of a parish church for weeks, especially those who administered divine services and the sacraments. In Massanet, the parish was governed by two priests until 1490. From this date, the church was guided by a governing priest, appointed by competition, to govern a parish.
Way of Life
The portrait of the medieval priest corresponds mainly to a poor man, with standard instruction in morality, and sometimes not very high.
Read MoreSt. Augustine’s Philosophy and the City of God
Principal representative of the philosophical named Christian Platonism, which runs through the end of antiquity, and virtually all the Middle Ages to the s13. Christian philosophy is based primarily on the Fe (Christian beliefs), but authors such as St. Augustine, trying to systematize and streamline its dogmas (as far as possible) through the Greek philosophical theories. / / It should be mind that Christian philosophy there are two radical changes regarding Greek philosophy. On one side it breaks
Read MoreChronicle of a Death Foretold: Chapter 2 & 3 Reading Guide
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Chapter 2 & 3
English 10 World Literature
Chapter 2 Reading Guide
Vocabulary
- Novice: A beginner.
- Superfluous: Excessive or unnecessary.
- Consecrated: Made or declared sacred.
- Languid: Weak or faint from illness or fatigue.
- Demented: Driven to behave irrationally due to anger, distress, or excitement.
- Conjectures: Opinions formed on incomplete information.
- Consolation: Comfort after a loss.
- Martyrdom: Suffering death for one’s beliefs.
- Impertinence: Lack of respect or rudeness.