My Freshman Year

My Freshman Year

Introduction

Culture of Letters and Sciences Liberal decaying, perishing even in the cities of Gaul in Middle of good and evil deeds that were committed while the barbarians were engaged in their ferocity and kings to their fury; that Church was attacked by the heretics and defended by the Catholics that the Christian faith, fervent in most hearts, was, in some others, warm and languid that the churches were in turn enriched by pious men and robbed by the infidels, he met no grammarian skilled in the art of dialectic, which has undertaken to describe these things either in prose or in verse. Thus many men groaned saying: Woe to our day! The study of letters perishes among us, and there is no one who can tell in his writings of the facts now. Seeing this, I thought proper to retain, though in an uncultivated language, memory of things past, so they come to the knowledge of men to come. I could not remain silent or the quarrels of the wicked or the righteous life. I was especially excited by what I have often heard my contemporaries, that few men understand a rhetorician philosopher, while the word of a simple man without art is heard of many. I liked this book also begin by calculating the years that have elapsed since the beginning of the world, which is why I added the following chapters (Nathan, 2006).

Discussion

I have to write the wars of kings with hostile nations, those of the martyrs with pagans, and heretics with the Church, before I expose my profession of faith, so that those who read me do not doubt that I am Catholic. Another reason, the opinion of those who are grieving over the approaching end of the world, I also determined to obtain from the chronicles and histories, the number of years already spent, so it is not clear how much get passed since the world began. I will seek first the reader's indulgence if I have departed, in the style or the words, rules of grammar that I am not very well educated. I only applied to well remember, with simplicity of heart and no doubt, what the church preaches the belief, because I know that man, prone to sin, can get by with a pure faith with our merciful Lord (Eggers, 2009).

So I believe in pure God Almighty and I believe in Jesus Christ his only son, our Lord God, begotten of the Father, not made, I think it was always with the father, not from time, but before all the time because no one could call it father if he had no son or son if it had no father. I reject with loathing those who say: It was when he was not, etc. and I say they are rejected the Church. I believe that Christ is the Word of the Father, by whom all things were made. I believe that this Word was made ??flesh and that by his Passion, he redeemed the world. I think his humanity and his divinity was not subject to the ...