Drew Williams 3/8/2014 Team 3 In his Sermon, Savonarola sets the tone of his rhetorical and theological credibility early on. He presents himself as an ordained speaker and advocate of God that has come to present the discrepancies of the current state of the church. He makes this argument multiple times throughout the sermon and… Continue reading →
Pope Innocent III was a shrewd and successful politician as well as what he claimed as other in the past had claimed, the vicar of Peter the Apostle. This claim to temporal power over the christian world allowed him to drastically increase the Papal States political dominion over Italy and its surrounding islands. At the… Continue reading →
Soon after all of the patriarchal sees were established, the idea of Rome being the “first among equals” was starting to be argued by Roman Pontiffs. These Popes would all build off the idea of the primacy of Peter’s see over all others and from then on argue for Peter’s successors having primacy over all… Continue reading →
