Questions tagged [crusades]
Military campaigns sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church during the High Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages.
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St. Augustine's views on salvation through coercion
This question goes out to any denomination.
Why was St. Augustine okay with using force to convert unbelievers to the faith, which also resulted in the eventual Roman Catholic Church's inspiration ...
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Were the actions of the 3rd Duke of Alba in the 16th Century considered a Catholic Crusade?
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba was sent by Philip II of Spain to Belgium where he waged war against the protestants in the area.
As a bit of history, Belgium in the 16th Century started ...
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What were Martin Luther's opinions on the Crusades?
Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, was critical of many practices of the Catholic Church. The Crusades were fairly recent in his day. What were his opinions on them? Did he see them ...
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How did Pope Urban II justify the first Crusade?
According to the ten commandments, you shall not kill anyone. How did Pope Urban II justify from a theological standpoint the First Crusade? Since it was successful, Pope Urban II must have had to ...
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What did the commisioning of the preaching of crusades involve?
I was reading about St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and this appears:
The pope commissioned Bernard to preach a new Crusade
A similar phrase appear in the respective Wikipedia article.
I get what it ...
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Which 20th-century Orthodox Christians said that the crusades were more oppressive than the Marxist anti-religious campaigns?
Everett Ferguson, in Church History, I, 23.I.D, discusses the brutality of the crusades in the early 13th century, when Constantinople was sacked. One point I found particularly interesting was a ...
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Were plenary indulgences issued during the crusades, as indicated by Dan Brown?
In Dan Brown's novel, The DaVinci Code, if my memory serves me correctly, Leigh Teabing asserts that Crusaders were given plenary indulgences to commit unspecified sins with impunity whilst on crusade....
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What is the Catholic view of separation of church and state in terms of war and application of the death penalty? [closed]
Note: This question was an honest search for a Catholic view not an accusation or attack. If I had written an attack it would be a 1000 times more severe and to a specific point. The defensive ...
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When and why did the Catholic Church stop the Crusades?
When and why did the Catholic Church stop the Crusades?
Was there a specific reason why they stopped? Or were they no longer necessary at some point in time?
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What passages of Scripture were used by the popes and crusaders to justify the Crusades?
What passages of Scripture were used by the popes and crusaders to justify the Crusades?
I am specifically interested what the individuals that were contemporary to the crusades were saying. For the ...
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How did the Crusades affect the King's power? [closed]
How did the Crusades affect the King's power/authority, during and after the Crusades?
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How did the Crusades affect the Pope's power and authority?
How did the Crusades affect the Pope's power/authority, during and after the Crusades?
The Crusades, from Wikipedia
The Crusades were a series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns, called by ...
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Is this melody part of the French church mass?
In this article, in the section entitled The “Great” Aleinu History, the author writes that a particular melody used in Jewish High Holiday prayers was added to the French Church Mass in the late 12th ...
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What were the circumstances behind the loss of the "True Cross?"
It is my understanding that there was a relic, used by the Crusaders, that was claimed to be the very Cross on which Jesus was crucified. I also understand that sometime around 1187, it was captured ...
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How did the Crusades impact modern Christianity? [closed]
How do the crusades impact modern day Christianity own sense of morality and spirituality? What do these things mean to a person of faith?
The Crusades, from Wikipedia
The Crusades were a series ...
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