Unit IV

1) On week 7’s discussion of Mysticism we briefly talked about the black death. There are a few footnotes discussed in MacCulloch and a few other of the course texts, it barely scratches the surface on what the overall effects were and how every religion viewed it. I needed a resource to better understand this.

Mark, J. (2020, August 28). Religious Responses to the Black Death. Retrieved August 29, 2020, from https://www.ancient.eu/article/1541/religious-responses-to-the-black-death/

This gave an in depth look at how the black death was viewed and the response by many different religious affiliations. I enjoyed reading through this thoroughly and I got some insight overall how this worked during the time period.

2) On discussion of Woman in Christianity one of my peers noted how many women are unable to become ordained through many different religious affiliates. It’s not something I had ever thought about before or pondered about in my life. Looking back most pastors or ministers have always been male and it wasn’t something I gave much thought. I was shocked to see so many religions disavowed women being ordained. This resource gave me a lot to think about with a few of my posts and 1 of my essay papers.

Macy, G. (2012). The hidden history of women’s ordination: Female clergy in the medieval West. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:https://oxford-universitypressscholarship-com.ezproxy.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189704.001.0001/acprof-9780195189704

This book gave me a lot of insight about female ordination and the roots of what has stopped and prevented it for so long.

3) Having gone to many Lutheran church services as a younger adult (grandparents were devout lutheran), I never really understood the need for differences in church affiliates. Many of the customs were the same in other churches I had visited as a young adult. Also during week 8’s discussion of Protestantism it starts talking about those differences.

Meister, C. V., & Stump, J. B. (2017). Christian thought: A historical introduction. London: Routledge. doi:https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/osu/detail.action?docID=534204

This gives an in depth look at when Lutherans diverged from Catholicism, it gives more reasoning of differences. It was a good read to understand where the differences stemmed from.