The Great Schism of the late 1300s was provoked be?
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In a nutshell, the French wanted to take power away from Rome.  Think about what happened in England during the formation of the Anglican church. Same motives, though different strategy and different results.
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Post Helenic Period...\n\nWhen was that?  I assume after the death Alex the Great.
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lots of events have occured. (War of independance, anything like that is usually good)\n\nis it recently or a long time ago. please specify for all who come after me
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The Orthodox churches, Roman Catholicism, and the major Protestent denominations.  Any sects started in the last two centuries would not be considered mainline.
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none: "Perusal of historical records indicates that the first mention of such a feast in Constantinople (Constantine's own city, after all) was not until 379 AD, under Gregory Nazianzus. In Rome, it can only be confirmed as being mentioned in a document from approximately 350 AD, but without any mention of sanction by Emperor Constantine."\n\n349 A.D.
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:}\nIf it is the same document that existed in the first and second century, it was treated as heresy then and should be now\n\nif it isn't, it's a fake
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Well, it's not only the Bible, after all.  The first division was between Catholic and the first protestant, Martin Luther, creating the Lutherans, and protestantism generally.  That was not only about the Bible, but about practices of the Catholic Church which Luther protested.  Then some denominations were created to argue that the Bible should be the only source of truth for christians, some on administrative lines, like whether or not there should be bishops, and so on.  You know the Church of England's story; that was not about the Bible, but about the authority of the Pope to tell Henry he could not have a divorce.  Henry then said, in effect, OK, I'll be my own pope, and so it goes.
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Well, let's start with Christianity. Before Jesus died on the cross, he said to Peter, "On you I will build my church." So Peter essentially became the first Pope of the Catholic church, and from then on the "first church" continued to appoint popes. Then comes Martin Luther into the picture. He saw some real problems in the Catholic church that he wanted changed. He demanded change, but was excommunicated instead. Still, he had followers. They became the Lutheran church. And so they were the first to "protest" the Catholic church, thereby becoming "protestants." Then there were the Catholics in England. The king didn't like the fact that he could not divorce, so he broke away from the church too and made his own, the Anglican church. \n\nSo to keep it short and sweet. Different religions form when a group in one religion breaks away from the original and it's like a domino effect and they just evolved into what you see today: the Episcopalians, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Pentecostals, etc.
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There are two men named Albert known as Saints.  I think Albert Magnus the Dominican friar from the 13th century is the one most often refered to as "the great".  \n\nHe was famous for promoting the peaceful coexistence of science and religion.  He was also the first Dark Ages scholar to reapply Aristotle's teachings to medieval life.  \n\nI'll include a few links for you to get started.  Good luck with your research.\n\nRegards, \n\nArmus
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no it was christians who had crusades who killed indiscrimitaly and took their land who really started with terroism. the cathlic church burning and torturing people to convert have killed more people than any muslim nation. I am cathlic so I know our history.
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I can only imagine that whatever mediation there was, if any, was done by the clergy and lay clergy.  I would check the diaries of clergymen in the colonial era.
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Time will tell... If there's any truth to the rumor of the 3rd letter of Fatima, then maybe the countdown is around the corner. More on this later.\n\nBut in answer to your follow up questions: Yes; yes; maybe; yes; and finally, a BIG YES!\n\nThere are huge vaults in several levels of undergound basement containing actual and original manuscripts, hermetically sealed to preserve their antiquities, that have been gathered eons ago --well, since they gained power as the Official State Religion of Rome, circa 325 AD or thereabouts. These vaults are called the 'Archives' of the Vatican.\n\nThe Knights Templar followed the victorious First Crusade and were sanctioned by the reigning King of France, under the auspices of the then pope, in early 12th century AD. Their military mission was to  protect and provide safe passage to Christian pilgrims en route to Jerusalem and back home. They started out with humble beginnings and the original nine knights took vows of Chastity, Poverty and Obedience. Their rule of conduct was based on the Cistercian monks' manuals.\n\nTheir Order grew rapidly and gained favor with the pope who ordered all monarchies to support them and their cause. In the process they became very wealthy and started to build their temples [mostly round floor plans] along the route and in their travels. They are credited to have started retail banking as we know it today: deposit your gold/cash in one temple at home and withdraw it anywhere along the way to Jerusalem or back by presenting your receipt.\n\nTwo centuries later, the Order had gained so much substantial power that King Phillip and Pope Clement decided to have them all eliminated by execution on trumped up charges of heresy, spitting on the cross, homosexuality, sodomy, idolatry, etc. and were burned at stake. Their Grand Master at that time was Jacque de Molay, who cursed the King and the Pope to die with him while he sizzled at the stake. Within months, both the Pope and King died too.\n\nJacque de Molay is CREDITED to have founded the Freemasons... Fascinating stuff, isn't it??\n\nSeek and you shall find.\n\nPeace be with you!
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De Jaucourt, Denis Diderot... loads of others -- they wrote the world's first Encyclopedia during the Englightenment period (rather than having exactly the same philosophy).  They were supported by Catherine The Great and Frederick the Great among others.\n\nAround the year 1000 there was the Third crusade and the Schism.  Eastern Orthodox Christianity broke with Rome and the Pope, leaving two super religions -- Islam and Roman Christianity.... and so it remained until the 1500s, when there was a second schism -- the Protestant Reformation.\n\nThere was throughout, a feeling of confidence that the Eastern Orthodox Church was a temporary schism, and there was no particular ill-feeling or bad-blood.  The easterners were a small minor group in comparison.  Despite the Crusades and wars between Moslems and Roman Christians, they were united in hatred and suppression of the Jews, and most of the time the two co-existed.\n\nThe biggest event was the Protestant Reformation, this was earth-shattering, and caused a lot of bloodshed and ill-feeling that remains to this day.  The Puritan Pilgrim Fathers that sailed to North America is a perfect example of religious intolerance and persecution that resulted in the catacombs, priest holdes, Huguenots and ripped through mainland European Politics like nothing before or since.\n\nSome believe that THE PROTESTANT V CATHOLIC situation WAS SO BAD that the RESULT WAS to avoid it all and get involved in the SCIENCES and new Philosophies - "The Best of All Possible Worlds" in the age of Reason/ the Enlightenment/ the beginnings of the Scientific Age and The Industrial Revolution/ British Empire of the 1700s.\n\nThis is also the period in which you seem to have an interest -- the Constitution of the United States of America.  \n\nI can assert with some confidence that there would be no Eastern Orthodox Christianity nor Islam involved in this, despite it being based on the Declaration of Arbroath -- a letter to the Pope -- the United States' Constitution is firmly a PROTESTANT form of Christianity, affected to a certain extent (but not as big as you might have thought) by the modern ideas of the Philosophes from France -- religious tolerance, morality over all, reason over all and so forth!\n\nHope this help!
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well John Paul II and now Benedict XVI have tried to foster peace between the two faiths.\n\nThere was however a point in history where they really did duke it out. Islam was encroaching on Europe and causing death and forced conversion. The Church called Europe to push back the Muslim invaders and it was quite a bloody war.
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keep in mind that spain was conquered by the Muslims in 7th century and recapured before the crusades in 1200's
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Though I would disagree with the statement as written, what it means is as follows:\n\nDuring a period of church history known as The Protestant Reformation, the Lutheran Church as we know it broke away from The Roman Catholic Church.  A fellow by the name of Martin Luther (not to be confused with the more recent activist Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.) had famously nailed 95 theses to the door of the church.  These theses were intellectual challenges of certain church practices and dogma.  While this may sound like a bold move, in truth there was little all that flamboyant about it.  Church doors in that place and time were also used as community bulletin boards and many people nailed notices and documents to them the way we post bills in urban areas today.  The 95 theses were little more than 95 topics of discussion for debate he'd hoped to bring attention to.  Martin Luther never had the notion of beginning a new form of the Christian religion.\n\nPerhaps the most noteworthy of the questions dealt with the then Roman Catholic Church practice of selling indulgences.  This was a transitive notion that depending on where one was either got enforced as an abuse to a large degree or got used as a quick little means of acceptance.  That's to say that people who paid the church money got absolution for sins from clergy right away, something Roman Catholics believe is necessary to enter the kingdom of heaven.  It was a practice that dated back hundreds of years in different forms and that segregated those who could pay from those who could not as if sin was a matter of barter.  Martin Luther wished to debate the practice, perhaps even eliminate it.\n\nWell, having gone so strictly against church policy, the simple questions turned into a grandiose argument that sent ripples through the Christian world without end.  The church was just too powerful to fight.  Martin Luther received the brunt of the fallout.  However, it wasn't until an almost unrelated incident, years later, when a reigning Pope excommunicated the entire nation of Germany from the church, that the people there rose up and basically said, "Hey, we don't need your church, we can follow the teachings of this guy over here, Martin Luther."  All of a sudden Luther's questions and assertions had followers.  They built their own churches, patterned after what they knew from Roman Catholicism.  They acquired their own clergy and a few practices that differed slightly from RC but ultimately fell in line with what Martin Luther had pointed out.  Though not the Protestant religion, Lutherans had much to do with the protestant movement (Protestant Reformation), a second schism away from the church after the Great Schism had divided the RC church into Eastern and Western centuries earlier..\n\nAttending a Lutheran church ceremony differs little from a Roman Catholic ceremony in the same season.  There are usually fewer images of Christ and saints, prefering a simple cross and a greater focus on the WORD.  Roman Catholics recognize seven practices as sacraments while Lutherans recognize only five.  Many of the songs are exactly the same, but sung to different tunes.  The Lutheran hierarchy goes up to bishops or so while the Roman Catholic hierarchy extends all the way to the Pope.  Lutheran churches tend to be a little smaller.  Roman Catholics traditionally go to Confession in a dark and quiet private booth called a Confessional while Lutherans tend to simply confess all their sins in a single, common sentence during part of the ceremony.  Both believe in pretty much the same versions of Christ's story and both have similar formats of services.  There’s an academic question over transubstantiation, but one of little note to a person practicing neither religion.\n\nIn recent years, post Vatican II, the similarities between the two have gotten even closer to the naked eye.  That's to say that the Roman Catholic Church has extended c
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I looked for the statement by Cardinal Castrillon but couldn't find it. So I can't state an opinion.\n\nPlease add a link next time. \n\nThank you.