Apostolic succession

Catholics. The Roman Catholic Church deems the Pope over office and is gives him great authority. However, Protestants believe that no human being is infallible and that Christ alone is the Head of the Church. Catholics tend to focus on the succession from apostolic notions in even in terms of how they actually find a pope, while Protestants believe that the church’s authority stems from the Word of God alone, the bible. Now, these two examples demonstrates differing views between the two most…

The Gnostic gospels have been the subject of much debate for centuries, especially regarding the Orthodox Church’s opposition to the validity of gospels outside of those canonized gospels of the New Testament. Author Elaine Pagels consolidated her research on this topic in the book titled The Gnostic Gospels. This text provides some insight into the struggles that helped shape beliefs of the Gnostics and the early Orthodox Church as they responded to attacks of heresy from one another. The…

In this essay, I will be discussing the development of Christianity from the life of Jesus through the second century. I researched how Christianity separated itself from Judaism and the issues that affected the development of the religion. I also discuss how the Roman bureaucracy reacted to Christianity, including which Emperors persecuted Christians, and which did not. The doctrine of Christianity had a huge impact on the Roman Empire. The religion of Christianity spread throughout the Roman…

The purpose of my paper is to explain Martin luther view of christianity. During the time of the Protestant reformation there was corruption in the catholic Hierarchy. The popes involvement in warfare created resentment among political and spiritual european leaders. Church leaders were failing to meet the ordinary religious requirements. Martin luther believed that the bible was the only source of christian doctrine and that the only thing needed for…

Predestination The concept of salvation for Augustine was an idea in which human free will had practically no place. He believed that a predestined eventual return to the Lord was a gift that He extends to all since we are compulsive sinners from which we have no control unless He rescues us from it. Here Augustine, again, refers back to the Fall for this concept, believing that because of this, all humans are inherently evil and God alone, by His grace saves from eternal death.…

Introduction Over the past thousand years, many have been fed with false doctrine that women should not be ordained as priests, this essay will simply discuss the reasons behind ordination of women the truth of the story is that it is still unveiled even today, but does it ends there? .However relatively recently, people were exposed to the utmost truth about what did Jesus say about priesthood. As many know that little has been highlighted on this issue. What about religious believers? They…

Since its origin, Christianity has been an all-encompassing term for many different branches of similar thought. Today the term Christianity describes a myriad of denominations: Catholicism, Baptist, Protestants, and Lutherans. In the second and third centuries there were as many, if not more, branches of Christianity. The most prominent form was Catholic Christianity, while all other branches from this era are referred to as Gnostic Christianity. The branches of Christianity have intermingled…

While the Catholic Reformation technically started before the Protestant Reformation, the onset of Protestantism gave it a new character. Before, the church was reforming due to inner necessities, but now the church had actual issues to respond to from the Protestants (Gonzalez, Vol. 2, pg. 138). The three types of the reformation were spiritual, administrative, and doctrinal. The spiritual type included the developmentive new orders. There were the Capuchin Franciscan monastics. They were…

Introduction The history and documentation of the Protestant Reformation was described as a widespread theological revolt in Europe, against the abuses and totalitarian control of the Roman Catholic Church. There were three reformers who were identified in support of the cause. Martin Luther in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, and John Calvin in France. These men stood by their beliefs and protested various unbiblical practices of the Catholic Church. The men were trying to get the…

1. On a scale of 1 – 10 (1 = most central part of my life and 10 = not central to my life) please rate the place of religion in your life. I would say my religion is number 9 or 10, it is the most important thing in my life besides my wife and kids. It provides a sense of fullness I can’t get anywhere else. 2. To what church or religious organization do you belong? What is the tradition and what specific denomination? I am a Druid senior priest from ADF [A Druid Fellowship]. I lead a grove…