PROMPT: This week’s readings characteristic 2 pre-Early Fashionable theologians (Augustine is taken into account Classical; Aquinas Medieval), and one Catholic amidst Protestants. By the top of the sixteenth century in England, Protestantism had taken maintain and it was the Catholics who had been persecuted. That mentioned, Catholicism was not eradicated in England – fairly the opposite. Catholicism was the normal faith, and regardless of laws dictating their actions, many individuals’s beliefs weren’t so simply swayed. Catholicism and its traditions had been over a millennium previous by the point Protestantism got here round, so it was no straightforward job altering the hearts and minds of a whole folks. And but, many individuals had been completely devoted to altering the minds of others. Think about Robert Southwell. Southwell risked his very life to return to his residence nation and minister to its folks, with the hopes of conserving them on the Catholic path. And he paid a really excessive worth for that need. Once you learn the works of Augustine, Aquinas, and Southwell, do you’re feeling their spiritual views or spiritual experiences are so very totally different from the reformed thinkers? What are the variations? What are the similarities? Why do you assume wars had been fought and folks had been tried and executed over these variations? How does violence develop into a part of that image? And the way does violence slot in with the Christian faith in any type? (You could want to deal with outdoors sources for those who select to sort out this final Question Assignment.) 

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