christianity – Asher Sisneros

Whitefield, Edwards, and Great Awakening Literature

October 28, 2024

Asher K. Sisneros Prof. Dr. Gary North American Literature October 28, 2024 The First Great Awakening saw a huge spiritual revival in the United States and parts of Europe. Itinerant preachers went around giving powerful sermons, often calling out church-goers for having counterfeit faith. Their audience was accused of attending church, reading their Bibles, and … More Whitefield, Edwards, and Great Awakening Literature

Renaissance Literature: A Rebirth of What?

August 1, 2024

The Black Death marked the beginning of the decline in the cultural assurance of God’s sovereignty over history, at least in the West. People began doubting His providence, and that manifested itself in The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales. Instead of describing events as providentially ordained, both writers describe a world governed by whimsical chance, without any sense of ethical causation. … More Renaissance Literature: A Rebirth of What?

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

July 8, 2024

Martin Luther was starting a cultural revolution when he pinned the 95 Theses to the chapel door in Wittenberg, Germany. This revolution rippled through society, first and foremost affecting religion, but it also affected geopolitics, wars, and economics. … More Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

The Church on the Eve of Reformation

July 3, 2024

Leading up to the beginning of the Reformation—when Martin Luther pinned his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany—the Catholic Church was experiencing noticeable forms of decay and rot. The Reformation was a movement to address the root of these perversions. Some saints within the Catholic Church attempted to address the corruption permeating … More The Church on the Eve of Reformation

Canterbury Tales: Death in the Pardoner’s Tale

June 27, 2024

The Pardoner’s Tale is one of the many short stories in Chaucer’s renowned Canterbury Tales. The narrator in the story is the Pardoner, a man endowed by the Catholic Church to sell indulgences. One of the key characters in the story is Death. He is a character surrounded by ambiguity, leaving fear in all the … More Canterbury Tales: Death in the Pardoner’s Tale

Key Ideas of the Renaissance

April 30, 2024

The Renaissance marked a rekindled interest in Roman and Greek literature in the West. For hundreds of years, the writings of Plato and Cicero were merely footnotes in history. The West had no access to those writings, even though medieval writers frequently referenced them. Towards the end of the High Middle Ages, various scholars including … More Key Ideas of the Renaissance

Imperial and Papal Conflicts During the High Middle Ages

March 14, 2024

The High Middle Ages were littered with imperial and papal conflicts. The Hohenstaufen family was notorious for garnering the hatred of various popes. From a glance, a student of history may get the impression that popes were continually engaged in proxy wars with the Holy Roman emperors. Such an impression would be accurate. Though the … More Imperial and Papal Conflicts During the High Middle Ages

The Acts of the Apostles

December 19, 2023

The Acts of the Apostles chronicles the church’s expansion after Christ’s ascension. The apostles ramped up their ministry after Jesus gave them the Holy Ghost, and the church grew exponentially. Stephen was among the first deacons, and the Jewish leaders martyred him for speaking the truth. Saul was an unrelenting church persecutor, but he was … More The Acts of the Apostles

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