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21 08, 2017

What is excommunication? Christianity – religion

By |2019-06-02T18:40:28-07:00August 21st, 2017|Religion|Comments Off on What is excommunication? Christianity – religion

Medieval excommunication ceremony What is excommunication? Excommunication was a Christian idea. It meant you could not take Communion anymore. Beginning in the Roman period, bishops or groups of bishops excommunicated people who were doing [...]

6 08, 2017

René Descartes – European philosophy

By |2019-05-06T07:44:32-07:00August 6th, 2017|Modern Europe, Philosophy|Comments Off on René Descartes – European philosophy

René Descartes Who was Descartes? René Descartes was one of the earliest philosophers of the European Enlightenment, in the early 1600s AD. He was just 8 years younger than Hobbes. While Descartes [...]

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