Robert W. Strayer Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources Second Edition Chapter 10 The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction‚ Expansion‚ and Division‚ 500–1300 Copyright © 2013 by Bedford/St. Martin’s I. Christian Contraction in Asia and Africa A. Asian Christianity 1. The challenge of Islam‚ yet many cases of tolerance: While Christianity had spread through much of North Africa and the Middle East‚ the unexpected rise of a new monotheistic faith meant the end of some Christian
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the aforementioned claims. The crusades were a chain of events that were started by Pope Urban II‚ to regulate‚ and to attempt to eliminate Islam from the face of the earth. Urban launched the knights of Christendom to attack Islam‚ and Islam attacked Urban’s forces. In the end‚ the Christendom crusades succeeded and Islam failed to spread during the 13th- 15
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Jim Meyer Professor Everett World Religion 2012-10-02 Christianity-A Day of Darkness Do people really care about religion? Religion is increasing its influence on society‚ but morality is seriously losing its authority. The secular world seems to offer abundant evidence that religion is not greatly affecting our lives. A growing number people today especially in Europe express little to no interest in religion affecting their lives. There is no denying that religious passions today still can move
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the Normans came the spread of the pope’s influence across Europe. Christians were anxious to demonstrate their faith‚ and the crusade provided the perfect opportunity to combine the interests of the pope with the purposes of the lay people of Christendom. The ardent religious factor was one of many of the Christians’ show of faith. It was fulfilling what they felt as a religious duty‚ but also love and charity which was a part of being a Christian. Another was the idea of “punishing evil” which
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succeeded the classical world. It was dominated increasingly also by the Church of Rome. It was a Latin reading and speaking world‚ therefore the term "Latin Christendom." This area was to become the West. From around 600 to 1000 AD conditions were fairly bleak in the emergence of a western civilization. By 1050 AD the Latin Christendom movement comes to life. Political states such as France‚ England (and for a millisecond of time Germany) began to pull themselves together into tribal states
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accurately portrayed in the Christian crusades. The crusades of the late antiquity exemplified this duality of religion and the horror religion can bring. Thousands upon thousands fought and died‚ not for king or country‚ but under God. The kingdoms of Christendom united under the common goal of retaking the holy land and driving the Muslims from Jerusalem. The crusades were by no means a small affair; it was the first time since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire that Europe became organized against
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Many people believe that Christianity is a hoax. Many people believe that it is false and that there is no God. This book was made to refute all false claims about Catholicism and to show all men that the Catholic faith is true‚ in the simplest way of looking at reality itself. Before I dive right into the report I’d like to discuss the several authors of the book “Reasons For Hope”. There are four authors that contributed to the book: Warren H. Carroll‚ William H. Marshner‚ Jefferey A. Mirus and
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Pope Urban II Rough draft Pope Urban II was born Otho de Lagery‚ sometime in 1042‚ as the second son to his family of Noble parents. He was from the Champagne region of France. This automatically meant that he was to be a part of the church. He was the head of the Catholic Church from 1088-1099. He had developed ecclesiastical reforms as a continuation of the reforms begun by Pope Gregory VII. Before he was Pope‚ he was a monk. Urban II eventually traveled to Rome where he would become the cardinal
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opinion within popular histories of The Crusade.15 Asbridge denies the existence of a critical schism between Islam and Christendom: an apparent pretense to the First Crusade: “The image of Muslims as brutal oppressors conjured by Pope Urban was pure propaganda- if anything‚ Islam had proved over the preceding centuries to be more tolerant of other religions than Catholic Christendom.”16 In acute contrast to the notion that The Crusades were launched in defense to the expansion of Islam in the east:
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mutual excommunication decrees imposed by their respective churches in 1054. 1. Christianity had provided common ground for postclassical societies in western Eurasia 2. but Christendom was deeply divided: Byzantine Empire and West a. Byzantium continued Roman imperial traditions b. West tried to maintain links to classical world
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