Essays Tagged: "Council of Constance"

This essay is about the corruption of the papacy in the Middle Ages.

selves in the most corruption, there is documentation condemning them both. In the year 1245 at the Council of Lyons, Pope Innocent IV had called the sins of the higher and lower clergy "one of the fi ... f the higher and lower clergy "one of the five wounds in the Body of the Church," and at the second Council of Lyons in 1274 Gregory X declared that "the wickedness of many prelates was the cause of t ...

(7 pages) 147 1 2.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Who Were The Ancient Unitas Fratrum

it, instead of looking over it, the way they did a lot of important issues.In 1415 he attended the Council of Constance to defend his beliefs. The goal of the council was to continue the reforms begu ... l that is whole in our "community" and makes us stand out from the rest of the world. Just like the Council, there are those who would like to see us put to death for our beliefs, but now instead of k ...

(5 pages) 12 2 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

What was the importance of the Council of Trent

t five hundred years worth of corruption could not be removed in the immediate short term after the Council of Trent, but the Council did indeed try to end such problems and it certainly reaffirmed th ... attack the exaggerated parodies of Protestant teaching.’The first significant factor about the Council of Trent is that is actually met. It was of the utmost importance to religious development a ...

(4 pages) 24 0 3.0 May/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History