Georg (George) Blaurock Georg (George) Blaurock was the third founder of the Swiss Brethren in Zurich, Switzerland. Blaurock was born in a village in Grisons, Switzerland and died in 1529. He was known by various names, but his name was actually Jorg vom Hause Jakob. He became known by the name of Blaurock, and how he received that name was written in an Anabaptist chronicle. A monk by the name of Georg vom Hause Jakob was discussing religious faith in a meeting and Georg added his ideas at the meeting. Someone asked who they were speaking to, and the reply was the person in the blue coat. He received his name because he was wearing a blue coat. From 1516 to 1518, Blaurock was at the diocese of Chur where he received the education to become a priest. Blaurock first came to Zurich to discuss the Gospel with Zwingli, but was disappointed and turned to Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz to discuss their faith. After these discussions, he joined the Zurich Swiss Brethren and played a prominent role. While Manz and Blaurock were in prison, the council ordered the Brethren to stop baptizing others. Manz and Blaurock refused to obey the rules from the council; therefore, the council demanded …show more content…
them to leave the country. The council decided that Blaurock and his wife should be shipped by boat to Chur with a written promise from the Chur council to keep them there. If Blaurock returned to Zurich death would be the penalty. Before going to Chur, Blaurock and Manz went to the Zurich highlands which irritated the council and Zwingli. Manz and Blaurock then traveled to Chur where they spent time in the Chur prison. After prison, Blaurock returned to the Zurich highlands with Grebel. All three ended up preaching and going to prison again. Zwingli testified the Anabaptists wanted to increase their numbers in order to overthrow the government. While in prison, many Brethren were captured and also thrown into prison. Now all the Anabaptists were tried and the sentence was a lifelong imprisonment, but after fourteen days the prisoners escaped. Manz and Blaurock were arrested again in Gruningen. Once again, they were asked if they would discontinue baptizing adults. Manz said no and was executed. Blaurock said yes and was released on his word. Blaurock never returned to Zurich, but continued to help the Brethren with word and deed. Blaurock first traveled to Tyrol and then continued to travel to various areas.
Everywhere he went Anabaptists grew in great numbers. Once again authorities captured Blaurock, and this time it was in Innsbruck. They questioned the Anabaptists in that area to find out who baptized them. The Anabaptist prisoners were tortured and they told the truth. On September 6, 1529, Blaurock was burned at the stake in Klausen. The charges against him were different than the charges in Zurich. The charges in Klausen were the violations of his vows from the Catholic priesthood, Catholic Church, and rejecting and refusing to recognize the Catholic Mass and confessional. Georg Blaurock’s name will always live in the Anabaptist community as he wrote many church hymns with two of his songs in the
“Ausbund”.
Kent Ehrhardt is a well-known meteorologist who has been working as the Chief Meteorologist at WPTV news channel for 13 years now. WPTV is an affiliate news channel of popular news channel NBC and is located in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was raised in St. Louis with his family. The details of the family are not known. He graduated from Pattonville Senior High School.
A. Victor Wickersham “American’s Worst Congressman” or better known as Victor Wickersham, who was given the title after he made a sham of being an Oklahoma’s Representative. Wickersham was aligned with the democratic party in Oklahoma, where he served Oklahoma on local, state, and federal levels. Wickersham was known for his private enterprise, a real estate business, which he ran out of the capital. He was also known for preventing military base closures after the end of World War II.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on February 4th 1906, as a son of a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Berlin. Throughout his early life he was an outstanding student, and when he finally reached the age of 25 he became a lecturer in systematic theology at the University Berlin. Something that is very striking is that when Hitler came to power in 1933, Bonhoeffer became a leading spokesman for the Confessing Church, the center of Protestant resistance to the Nazis. He organized and for a shot amount of time he led the underground seminary of the Confessing Church. His book Life Together describes the life of the Christian community in that seminary, and his book The Cost Of Discipleship attacks what he calls "cheap grace," meaning that grace used as an excuse for moral laxity.
at Altdorf in 1669, where he also served as organist at the Lorenzkirche. He was forced to
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George Dewey, born 1837 in Montpelier Vermont a high spirited boy growing up with his father, a local physician, and his 2 brothers charles and edward following their father's career. Inspired by Carthaginian Commander Hannibal considered to be one of the greatest military commanders of all time Dewey at the young age of 15 was enrolled at Norwich University in New Hampshire where he remained for 2 years until moving on to Indianapolis Naval Academy
Read my lips: no new taxes. These few simple words invoked the American public to elect a man who grew up in a small town in Massachusetts to be the most powerful man in the world. This man is George Herbert Walker Bush. George grew up in Milton, Massachusetts a small town near the Quincy Bay and the Neponset River. His father was a banker and later became a politician who represented Connecticut in the Senate from 1952 until 1963. He attended Phillips Academy of Boarding School in Boston. There he demonstrated his strong sense of leadership through holding many high positions such as president of the senior class, secretary of the student council, president of the community fund-raising group, a member of the editorial board of the school newspaper, and captain of the varsity baseball and soccer teams. Then disaster struck. The Japanese bombed us at Pearl Harbor. Bush decided that it was his duty to serve our country and joined the navy. He became a pilot and was the youngest pilot in the navy at that time. He fought courageously but had to bail out of his plane when it was shot down. He was rescued and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. Upon returning from the war he married Barbara Pierce, his long time sweetheart from Philip's Academy. He then attended Yale University. He graduated with a degree in economics. And started his own oil business. During his oil career he started to become interested in politics. In 1959 he became chairman of the Harris County Republican Party. In 1964 he campaigned for Senator of Texas. He lost. Two years later, he eventually became U.S. Representative in Congress. After a devastating loss in the 1970 election President Richard Nixon appointed him to be the US ambassador to the United Natio...
Bab was a young merchant and a forerunner of Baha’u’llah. Even though his given name was Siyyid 'Ali-Muhammad he took the name Bab which means “the Gate” or “Door” in Arabic. On May 23rd of 1844 Bab declared to be an independent “Messenger of God” and announced that “the universally anticipated Revelation of God to all humanity would soon appear.” His writings and teachings laid the foundation for the mission of Baha’u’llah. Bab’s announcement caught the attention of many which later became his followers and also caught the attention of “the dominant Muslim clergy.” Bab was later then beaten, imprisoned, and charged with apostasy. Over 40,000 followers were killed through persecution and genoc...
“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America… No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States” (“The Constitution” National Archives 1).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor who was born February 4 1906 in Breslau, Germany. As a child Dietrich’s family was not religious. Even though his family was not religious he decided at the age of 14 to become a priest. In 1927 Dietrich graduated from the University of Berlin with a doctorate. After this he traveled to Spain and America for a short period of time. In 1931 he would travel back to Germany as an ordained priest. It would be two years after this that Adolf Hitler would be elected. Dietrich did not agree with many of Hitler’s policies and the persecution of the jews. It would be from here that Dietrich would become famous for his actions.
Harold Garfinkel grew up in Newark, New Jersey in 1917. During his childhood, his father owned a furniture business, which he was hoping Harold would continue the family business. Garfinkel, although he did for a while, but decided he was meant for bigger things. That is when he left to attend the University of Newark. During his tenure at the University of Newark, he was taught by former graduate students. The summer of his graduation he decided to go help students and learn more about diverse backgrounds at a work camp he volunteered at. Which after he met so many complex students and studied different backgrounds, that when he decided to take up sociology as a career.
Eric Arthur Blair or widely known as George Orwell, was a Brilliant man. Developing his writing skills at an early age of four years old “reportedly” began his first poem; from his Biography Synopsis (Para. 3). In later years, Orwell became very passionate for his writing career. The novel 1984 expresses a lot of Orwell’s thoughts and views towards dictatorship. The use of the main character, Winston, induces a man of intelligence. If a government really wanted to break someone or something down, they have enough power to do as they please. Orwell’s intentions of his political works were created to inform the terrors. George Orwell’s novel 1984 expresses full totalitarianism issues, violence of a dystopian society, mind altering manipulation to keep control; 1984 can be symbolic to Orwell’s views as in, his fear of future dictatorship, low freedom with security abolishment, social outlook standards in who is respected; Orwell indeed makes a good representation of the fear of powers of 20th century literature.
Through the eras of the Middle Ages, many Protestants demanded to have a personal relationship with God without the influence of the Catholic Church. The Protestants started to think for themselves as a religion, and Martin Luther first paved the way. Martin Luther first visited Wittenberg, Germany, and made a list of complaints that he had with the Catholic Church. A short while after, he published his list of complaints to the door of a German church, and they were called the Ninety-Five Theses. In response, Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther in 1521. The Catholic Church conflicted with the Protestant religion, because the Protestants sought an individual relationship with God.
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