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Pope Urban II Speech Critique

Graham, Brenden T.
ENG 111/ Professor Munoz
9 February 2014
Word Count: 974

Pope Urban II Speech Critique

When reading the speech of Pope Urban II you get an overwhelming feeling of his true intentions; his underlying tone used to motivate the Christian audience, to make them feel certain hatred and disgust toward Muslims, and his use of Christian scripture to justify his proposed intentions. *Stating quite simply that by taking the Crusade, Christians would be ultimately forgiven for all sins in this life and the next; that the Muslim invaders or "Infidels," were an unholy people, who's primary intention was to destroy everything that Christian's hold most dear. What could ...

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I believe to be most relevant, I will outline the worldly concerns and the spiritual motivations that the Pope was conveying to the audience. "Happy indeed will you be if he finds you faithful in your stewardship. You are called shepherds; see that you do not act as hirelings. But be true shepherds, with your crooks always in your hands. Do not go to sleep, but guard on all sides the flock committed to you. For if through your carelessness or negligence a wolf carries away one of your sheep, you will surely lose the reward laid up for you with God. And after you have been bitterly scourged with remorse for your faults-, you will be fiercely overwhelmed in hell, the abode of death. For according to the gospel you are the salt of the earth" [Matt. 5:13] (Bongars, Gesta Dei per Francos, 1, pp. 382 f., trans in Oliver J. Thatcher, and Edgar Holmes McNeal, eds., A Source Book for Medieval History, (New York: Scribners, 1905), 513-17). Here we analyze his intent, the Pope was using ...

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Added: 4/20/2014 05:14:46 PM
Submitted By: brendeng
Category: Religion
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