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...
12. Limerick and Canterbury: Church and Atonement
Viking Raids in Ireland Viking raids in Ireland began c. AD 795 at the island of Lambay (Dublin Bay). Viking success in Northern France...
11. The Crusades
The Rise of Islam Beginning in the seventh century Islamic conquests took over Arabia, Persia, Palestine, North Africa, Spain and...
10. The Great Schism of 1054 and the Mother of All Heresies
The Mother of All Heresies The fourth century Patriarch of Constantinople John Chrysostom remarked in his commentary on Galatians that “…...
