22. Ennis Evangelical Church
Ennis and Evangelical Christians: The 20thCentury A general decline in the numbers of non-mainline Protestants in Ennis occurred in the...
21. Vatican I and II: Roman Catholicism and Modernity
VATICAN I: Origins Three centuries separated the council of Trent (1563) and the twentieth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church...
20. Ennis and the Gospel: 1600 to 1900
The main centre for Christian worship in Ennis since the 13th century was the old Franciscan Friary. Between 1536 and 1543 Henry VIII...
19. Liberal Theology: A gospel for Modernity
The Enlightenment In his essay “What Is Enlightenment?” (1784), Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) defined the concept as “man’s release from his...
18. The Anglican Reform: The Middle way?
The English Crown’s Response to Lutheranism By 1521 Luther’s ideas had begun to influence the English universities. In reaction to...
17. The Council of Trent and the Counter Reformation
Catholic Diversity in the Medieval Era It is important to remember that Roman Catholic theology had many various views and different...
16. Cyril Lucaris: The Patriarch who tried to Reform the Eastern Church
Responses within Eastern Orthodoxy to the Reformation Lutheran theologian Philip Melanchthon (d. 1560), had not just the Reformation of...
15. Luther and the Reformation
The Justice of God Philip Bocht Ó hÚigínn, an Irish Franciscan theologian and poet (d.1487), summed up the late Medieval consensus on the...
14. Attempting Reformation: Jan Hus
The Church. Where can it be found? The Great Papal Schism (1378–1417) caused many to question where the true church could be found. Papal...
13. Attempting Reformation: John Wycliffe
The State of the Church circa 1415 One hundred years before the Reformation the western church was in dire need of reform. There were...
