<p>I have a paper due where I have to write about a controversial person in church history. I am thinking about doing Martin Luther or Nietzche. Any suggestions will greatly be appreciated!!! :)</p>
<p>Calvin and Luther were both pretty outragious for their time</p>
<p>Borgia popes. The Vatican during the Renaissance was basically the **** lol.</p>
<p>All the pedophilic priests. (Seems weird looking up the spelling of “pedophile” on dictionary.com… and then “weird”–it doesn’t sound like neighbor OR weigh =-( )</p>
<p>I’d say Jesus is pretty controversial.</p>
<p>Mary magdalene</p>
<p>sort of?</p>
<p>Galileo or Giordano Bruno (sic, most likely)</p>
<p>god (10 char)</p>
<p>Martin Luther.
Mary Magdalene.
Jesus.</p>
<p>God is dead.</p>
<p>(go with Nietzsche 
)</p>
<p>And no one cares?</p>
<p>Joan of Arc.</p>
<p>I’d say go with Luther… but then again I’m Lutheran so I’m kind of biased :-)</p>
<p>God…jeez wheres the proof for him? eh…ty</p>
<p>Every last one of them.</p>
<p>“God is dead” -Nietzsche</p>
<p>“Nietzsche is dead” -GOD</p>
<p>He was born in 1844, do you expect people to live 150 years?</p>
<p>How is Nietzsche a controversial figure in church history? He wasn’t really a figure in church history at all. And that statement (God is dead) is misinterpreted by SO MANY PEOPLE. All that Nietzsche was saying was, because the basis of society’s moral order is a vulnerable faith in God, if anything were to threaten this belief, that moral order would crumble. Nietzsche sought a different, less shaky system. If humans recognized “God was dead,”</p>
<p>"human beings might stop turning their eyes toward a supernatural realm and begin to acknowledge the value of this world. The recognition that “God is dead” would be like a blank canvas. It is a freedom to become something new, different, creative-- a freedom to be something without being forced to accept the baggage of the past.</p>
<p>Nietzsche uses the metaphor of an open sea, which can be both exhilarating and terrifying. The people who eventually learn to create their lives anew will represent a new stage in human existence, the Uebermensch-- i.e. the personal archetype who, through the conquest of their own nihilism, themselves become a mythical hero. The ‘death of God’ is the motivation for Nietzsche’s last (uncompleted) philosophical project, the ‘revaluation of all values’."</p>
<p>Anyway Nietzsche was also insane and didn’t really provide any viable social alternatives. As such, you should pick someone who actually mattered, like Luther or Calvin or something.</p>
<p>You could write about Torquemada. The Inquisition is controversial.</p>
<p>I’m sticking with Calvin and Luther
but Mary was a pretty good one too.</p>