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Heinrich Bullinger

Controversy between the Protestant and Catholic cantons in Switzerland led, on 11 October 1531, to a battle at Kappel between Zurich and its Catholic neighbors. In the course of the battle Zwingli lost his life. Thus, the leadership of the reformation in Zurich fell to Heinrich Bullinger. [tags]BlogRodent, church-history, ChurchRodent,…

Docetism

From the Gk, "to seem." the title comes from their teaching that Christ was not really a man, he was a spectral appearance. He only "seemed" to suffer for man’s sins since divine phantoms are incapable of dying. [tags]BlogRodent, church-history, ChurchRodent, Docetism, history[/tags]  

Friedrich Engels

(1820-1895) The son of a wealthy German factory owner. In 1845 the French authorities expelled Marx, and together Karl Marx and Engels went to live in Brussels. In January 1848 Marx and Engels published the famous Communist Manifesto. [tags]BlogRodent, church-history, ChurchRodent, Friedrich-Engels, history, Karl-Marx[/tags]  

Huguenots

From 1562 to 1598, France suffered a series of civil wars between Roman Catholics and French Calvinists (or Huguenots). When both parties reached the point of utter fatigue they agreed to a territorial compromise in the royal Edict of Nantes (1598). The Huguenots gained religious freedom and political control of…

Jerome

(340-420) Fourth century translator of the Bible into the Latin (the Vulgate). A pioneer in monastic scholarship. He began his career as a hermit in the Syrian desert, but found that he could exorcise his sexual temptations only by occupying his mind with a tough intellectual discipline. He took up…

Karl Marx

(1818-1883) Born in Rhineland, at Trier, of German-Jewish parents who had been converted to Christianity, Marx obtained his doctor’s degree after studying the ideas of philosopher Georg Hegel. Turning to journalism to earn a living he went to Paris, where he became interested in socialistic ideas. He and Friedrich Engels…

John Henry Newman

(1801-1890) Vicar of the University Church and a commanding figure in the academic community. Supporter of John Keble, Fellow of Oriel College. Joined by Edward Pusey, professor of Hebrew, their preaching and writing turned their protests against their loss of representation (Anglican clergy) in Parliament into a movement. [tags]BlogRodent, church-history,…

Protestantism

Ernst Troeltsch early in the twentieth century called Protestantism a "modification of Catholicism" in which Catholic problems remain, but different solutions are given. The four questions that Protestantism answered in a new way are: How is a person saved? Where does religious authority lie? What is the church? And what…

Romanticism

In the early nineteenth century an artistic and intellectual movement arose called Romanticism. This was a way of looking at life through feelings. Romanticism insisted that man was no cog in human society, he was a vibrant part of nature. Revolting against society’s rules, human reason and traditional authority, romanticism…

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