Holy War The Crusades Centre For Public Christianity

Holy War The Crusades Centre For Public Christianity Holy war: the crusades. this segment comes from episode 1: war peace. from jesus’ command to “love your enemies” to the idea of “holy war” is a giant leap. yet from the old testament through to the crusades and the inquisitions, christian history is full of violence. at times christians have been enthusiastic proponents of violence. The so called city of peace. in the blistering heat of july 15th 1099, 10,000 european crusaders broke through jerusalem’s walls, and fought their way up here, to one of islam’s most sacred sites, and committed one of the great atrocities of christian history. thousands barricaded themselves in up here and sought refuge in the mosque.

Holy War The Crusades Centre For Public Christianity Look at the crusades. this is an example of a holy war in christianity, where the crusaders marched to jerusalem and slaughtered muslims. and all for the sake of god, they went into battle crying “god wills it”. but it was entirely mixed up with politics. the pope, when he called the crusade in 1095, he called the first crusade – he had a. In 1095 pope urban ii summoned christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the holy land. thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. in reality the crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. The crusades, far from being an outrageous prototype of western imperialism, as is taught in most of our schools, were a mere episode in a struggle that has lasted 1,400 years, and were one of the few occasions when christians took the offensive to regain the “occupied territories” of the holy land. {2}. By andrew latham. between the mid 11th and late 15th centuries, an historically specific configuration of material and ideational factors gave rise to a constellation of religious wars that have come to be known as “the crusades”. this constellation included church organized wars in the holy land, iberia and along the baltic frontier as.