Tolerance is the willingness to listen to many voices, making intolerance the insistence on listening to one voice. This intolerance is predominantly shown based on hierarchal power and religious supremacy. “The Song of the Cid” back these claims of vocal intolerance with the King Alfonso VI’s exile and further interactions with the Cid showing the intolerance he has for his subordinates, the view of Christian supremacy projected by El Cid’s men, and El Cid’s dominance of those of other faiths as well. In the “Letter to the Galatians,” Paul’s opinions on the Judaism-Christianity relationship being rather progressive, providing more view on the spiritual world, rather than the spirit-matter distinction that was prominent in the Hellenistic culture …show more content…
The reason for his banishment, unknown within the poem with the beginning pages allegedly lost, shows King Alfonso’s intolerance and shortness with El Cid. El Cid had always been a loyal nobleman and warrior, adored by the community. As he was preparing for his exit, people exclaimed “O God, what a wonderful servant, if only he had a decent master,” backing El Cid’s loyalty and King Alfonso’s unwarranted suspicion and intolerance (“The Song of the Cid”, Raffel, 5). Furthermore, any aid provided to El Cid would lead to other people’s banishment, and he was forbidden from taking any of his wealth with him, making his departure and future quest of regaining entry to Castille and restoring his honor significantly more difficult. After El Cid and his companions conquer the Moors, he sends some of his men with tribute from the battle. Minaya, who is sent to bring the tribute to King Alfonso, is pardoned and welcomed into Castille, but the king does not rescind El Cid’s banishment, yet he is happy that El Cid is doing well (“The Song of the Cid,” Raffel, 61). While the king does seem to be fonder of El Cid, he will not remove his exile so swiftly to project his power (Professor Guillem’s Lecture, 11/10/15). El Cid fights valiantly in an effort to reintegrate himself, his family, and his men back into Castille, but King Alfonso again shows his intolerance by narrowly focusing on himself …show more content…
Paul’s incorporation of Platonic views to the religious sphere enlightened him, and he only followed this religious voice. Since he considered these other theologies disaggregated subsections of “his” Christianity, he could not accept them as truth, making him intolerant of these alternative voices. Hellenism was the prominent cultural delegator around 50 CE (Dean Frisina’s Lecture, 10/29/15). The spirit-matter distinction, that we can only have opinions about the physical world, while having knowledge of unchanging realities, was a strong theological idea at this time. We should aspire to escape this known, physical realm to leave a world of suffering and pain behind. Hellenism is shown to associate perfection with changelessness, and imperfection with decay and disintegration (Dean Frisina’s Lecture, 10/29/15). Early Christians were heavily influenced by the Hellenistic ideas around them as well, despite Christianity taking a more spiritual approach than its theological counterparts at this time. Jesus seldom mentioned escaping Roman rule, and never predicted such matters. He was more focused on the otherworldly, and believed we should use our time on Earth for a higher salvation in the afterlife. Paul’s emergence began the split in Early Christian views. Paul was even viewed as a persecutor of
Not even the most powerful Germans could keep up with the deaths of so many people, and to this day there is no single wartime document that contains the numbers of all the deaths during the Holocaust. Although people always look at the numbers of people that were directly killed throughout the Holocaust, there were so many more that were affected because of lost family. Assuming that 11 million people died in the Holocaust, and half of those people had a family of 3, 16.5 million people were affected by the Holocaust. Throughout the books and documentaries that we have watched, these key factors of hate and intolerance are overcome. The cause of the Holocaust was hate and intolerance, and many people fighting against it overcame this hate
Paul the Apostle is the central figure in many New Testament writings. Many historians have attributed fourteen New Testament letters to Paul’s writing; seven of these letters are uncontested meaning historians are sure that Paul wrote them, the remaining seven are contested. Paul was not always a Christian; in fact, he persecuted Christians before Christ came and temporarily blinded him. Upon seeing Christ, Paul devoted his life to Christianity and set out to spread the teachings of Christ. Scholars often credit Paul’s leadership to the ability of the Church to become Hellenistic in one generation. Paul also answered specific worries and questions that his converters may have had in many of his writings; one of these writings is 1 Corinthians. In 1 Corinthians, Paul set out to deal with the many believers in Corinth who are divided into the followings of Paul or Apollos rather than Christianity as a whole. The converts of Paul in 1 Corinthians 12-14 were divided during times of worship because of jealousy invoked by the spiritual gifts received from the “Spirit”; the worships and the church became a place to boast who is closest to God, instead of a place of worship, interpretation, and love. In 1 Corinthians 14:26-33, Paul set guidelines in times of worship to heal the divide among his converts present in 1 Corinthians 12-14.
Intolerance in the Chrysalids by John Wyndham The Chrysalids was by John Wyndham. It Involves Children that have ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) living in a community that does not tolerate differences. They are eventually found out and escape to Sealand (New Zealand). All societies in this novel practice intolerance in one way or another, even though Wyndham doesn't approve of it.
By detailing an incident that occurred in the village of Salem, Massachusetts, Arthur Miller provides great insights into the
Arthur Miller’s eminent play, The Crucible, is a product of literature set in 1962 Massachusetts, an era in which the city of Salem was under a stirring amount of hysteria due to the accusations of witchcraft on its citizens. The play, based on the true story of the city, displays the importance of reputation, hysteria, and intolerance through the actions of many characters in the play. Perhaps the most prominent is Danforth’s actions making way for a prominent theme of intolerance. Danforth, the deputy governor of the state and the judge presiding at the witch trials, is hypocritical while believing the action he is taking is for the common good of the people. Although these actions in no way resemble the common good, Danforth’s tyrannous personality is thoroughly recognized throughout the play through his determined and stubborn personality, courtroom actions of indistinguishable prosecution without evidence and his biased favoring of Abigail Williams, causing intolerance galore throughout the scenes of the play.
Unfortunately, the role of ignorance and jealousy combining to breed fear and hatred is a recurring theme in history ultimately exhibiting itself in the form of prejudice. As demonstrated through the altering of historical events in The Song of Roland, the conflict between the Christian and Islamic religions takes precedence over the more narrow scope of any specific battle and is shaped, at least in part by the blind perception of a prejudice born of the ignorance and envy Christian Europe had for representatives of the non-Christian world. To fully see this prejudice and its effect on the participants, it is necessary to recognize the circumstances of the "real" battle along with the altering characters and settings attributed to its later writing, understand the character and beliefs of the participants, and carefully examine the text itself to see how prejudice comes into play.
The Cid was an ideal Lord. He was generous to his followers, showed them respect, and took acceptance of their council. He was loyal almost to a fault. He brought honor to himself by giving honor to his Lord, King Alfonso. Alfonso who was the opposite of the Cid, he did not know how to let his vassals bring him honor. The King often believed the enemies of the Cid therefore not trusting him. Enemies misled the King, which later dealt the banishment of the Cid. After he was banished from his home never did he hire himself to the Moors as a mercenary. The Cid continued to gain much territory and many riches for the king who exiled him, King Alfonso. In doing this he hoped to regain the acceptance of his king.
...my own hometown, like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid” to show how they both were compelled to carry out a message one being the gospel of Jesus Christ and the latter being human equality (p.61). By comparing himself to historical figures he makes numbers of ethical appeals and he builds up the author’s character. His use of great leaders can have a great influence in the reader and have an effect on the emotions of the reader.
The main idea of deSilva’s work is to “recover the ideology of the early Christians.” His ultimately goal for recovering the ideology of the early church is improve the contemporary Church. deSilva carefully analyzes the Scriptures through the four core values, stated in the title of his book: honor, patronage, kinship and purity. Each of these values deSeilva devotes chapters to. deSilva gives cultural structure to the New Testament analysis and seeks the ancient Judaic and Greco-Roman cultural contexts.
Christianity developed with Jesus of Nazareth (6 BCE- 29 CE). He was born during the reign of Augustus Caesar. He practiced Christianity from 26 CE to 29 CE. He was the Son of God and the Redeemer of all Mankind. The Romans viewed him as someone “rocking the boat” with what was already a nation of the religiously obsessed. Eventually h...
Amongst these philosophers, Plato emerged as one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy. Living from roughly 428 BCE until 348 BCE, Plato’s theories predated Christianity by at least four centuries. Because of this, it can be assumed that early Christian worshippers used Plato’s teachings as a basis for their religion. It is evident that there is a surprising amount of similarities between Plato’s philosophy and early Christianity. By utilizing Plato’s theories and philosophy, early Christians were able to bridge the gap between paganism and Christianity. This allowed for an easier conversion from a polytheistic culture into a monotheistic religion. But why was this conversion so easy and where exactly did Plato and his theories fit?
Throughout the first 400 years that Christianity was present in the world it changed dramatically. It started small in an area near the eastern Mediterranean area but within these 400 years, it grew to encompass the whole of the Mediterranean and its surrounding. Throughout this time of growth, there was also much change within the beliefs of Christianity with the main belief centering around Jesus Christ. While Christianity grew and made it to new areas it was introduced to new people that interpreted the different scriptures and preaching of what it meant to be a Christian. Some of the most influential writings in these years came from Irenaeus of Lyons, a second-century writer, Christian, theologian, and bishop. He expressed his beliefs of what made a Christian a Christian within his writing. One of his most famous writings, The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, highlights the idea of the Holy Trinity and the Rule of Faith in the interpretation of the bible. Irenaeus believed that the Rule of Faith was ultimately necessary and required when reading and interpreting the word of Christianity saying, in the words of Isaiah, “If ye believe not, neither shall ye understand” (paragraph 3). In the eyes of Irenaeus, the Rule of Faith is one of the main things that makes a Christian a Christian.
The God Paul spoke about did not seem at all necessary due to their great success. As a matter of fact, during the Age of Chaos (A.D. 235 – 284) Christians were persecuted. Many secular historians believe it is because Christianity is a cult. The reason it is explained as a cult is because for over four-hundred years, the accepted religions were religions formed by man and Christians would go to the death for their belief just like anyone else. Somehow this placed them into a cult by modern historians, and now Christianity is a result of a cult also believed by modern historians. However, also during this time leaders were dying, there were many revolts, there were plagues, and there were also fires. To top off this period, a new ruler came whose name was Diocletian and split the Roman Empire in two. He added junior emperors, which resulted in now four Caesars. When there is a change in leadership, a civil war erupts. The next leaders will change the Roman Empire for
Jesus and Paul are two crucial characters in the New Testament. They both depict the Gospel on which Christianity is based upon, but there is debate about rather these two versions of the Gospel are complementary. Scholars like George Shaw claim that Paul is “anti-Christian,” and he “produced a fantastic theology” (Shaw 415-416). On the other hand, I believe that even though Jesus and Paul may present the Gospel different at times, they are still advocating the same religion. Through the understanding of the Gospels and Paul’s letters it is clear that Jesus and Paul have the same underlining goals and values.
...tled in Italy and Judea. Many Roman rulers persecuted Christians, under Diocletian they weren’t even considered human, and outlawed from the Roman Empire. Diocletian claimed Christians as reprehensible for the fall of the Roman Empire. When Diocletian retired, Constantine took power and legalized Christianity, then became one himself. Christianity remained perennial even after the Empire fell because once it became widely accepted, due to its teachings on equality, forgiveness, and eternal happiness, many people enjoyed the idea that Jesus accepted sinners, and forgive them for their actions. This led many people to switch from polytheism to monotheism. Many people switched because they no longer believed in relying on pleasing the Gods to make their lives happier, but to figure out to make it better on their own. Christianity gave followers a sense of community.