Essays 61 - 90
In five pages these religions are examined in terms of their similar goals to provide mankind with an ultimate sense of purpose. ...
In five pages this paper examines how these world religions conceptualize what it means to be a good person in terms of ethics, si...
The world's greatest religious texts are used to determine the similarities and differences that exists in the beliefs of each in ...
In five pages this paper examines how these major world religions originated and considers how they relate to each other. Five so...
worship upon just one -- and they glorify the same god, at that. It is curious that while it may appear on the outside that these...
in the form of fire which descended upon their heads. "To date the rise of the church from this experience is somewhat arbitrary ,...
to his god. Another is in the form of what is accepted by Jews as the first covenant. This laid the foundation for the Jewish re...
outlook by blaming someone or something else, thus we will remaining in a ?status quo? personality and spirit all our life, never ...
signify the "blood of the covenant" (Geffen, 1993, p. 28). It is a time-honored ceremony that is concluded when a family member (...
Holy Ghost/Spirit (Faigin, 2002). This difference is directly related to belief in Jesus. Judaism does not accept Jesus Christ a...
has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...
believe that the Bible reflects the primitive concepts of the age in which it was written (Ahavat Israel, 1995). Reform Judaism no...
of development and which necessitated the imposition of one husband on the woman, whereas a man was left free to have several wive...
The Islamic religion, overall, is based on submission to the will of God, or Allah (Islam, 2002). The so-called "founding father" ...
In five pages this examines the Renaissance period with the focus being upon Judaism's art and culture with the faith and treatmen...
women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...
born Jewish, but converted, to their services. They also accept people who are otherwise rejected in religion much of the time, th...
educational influence on his way of thinking. In this way, he is establishing a basic parameter from which to discourse on the dif...
In six pages this paper examines Judaism's beliefs, concepts, benevolence, and peace doctrine. Seven sources are cited in the bib...
ritual in pagan religions for the purpose of purifying oneself (Barnes 2000). Although the term baptism is not found in the Old ...
In five pages contemporary Catholicism and Judaism are contrasted and compared in an examination of the differences and similariti...
In fifteen pages parallels that exist between Buddhism and Judaism are considered in this comparison and contrasting of their vari...
doctrines of faith and hope as the two primary elements of Judaism (Schechter, 2002). Buddhism decrees outright respect for...
America, they worked very hard to convert the Native American Indians, who obviously did not believe in Jesus Christ. The new set...
and we can start to see the representation of Judaism in Kafkas work, Scholem stated that "Although unaware of it himself, [Kafkas...
to be confused between the Jewish Torah and Talmud. The Torah is comprised of the first five Books of the Bible. These were writte...
five book of the Christian Bible; and, also, the this concept characterizes the Tanach, which is comprised of the "Torah, the Prop...
18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...
salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...