The author focuses on the fall of the Soviet-union and the emergence of a new-born Russia. What I found most interesting about this article is was the idea of the importance of language in unified states. In particular, the role that educational systems in a new born state plays in the cultivation of new states. […]
Month: February 2017
Spencer Klaw, “Without Sin,” Chapter 1
Spencer’s reading gives a brief overview of the Oneida Society. The society lasted from 1848 till 1879 in upper New York State and consisted of over 300 Christian Communities. Their leader and founder was John Humphrey Noyes, who was regarded as being the anointed leader chosen directly by God (largely self-exclaimed by Noyes). The community […]
Steven Ozment, “Turning the World Upside Down”
Steven Ozment’s, “Turning the World Upside Down” (from Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution), asks the question, “was the Protestant Reformation a Revolution?” In order to properly answer that question, the author states that we must first ask, “why so many Germans had become so mad at the Church of Rome in the early 16th […]