YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Christianity from Historical and Phenomenological Perspectives
Essays 391 - 420
offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...
understand the draw to the marginalized groups such as the converted Jews, but to see the evidence which supported the recruit of ...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...
in government policy-making, for example....
date). In order to fit into the economic Western world, many Jews have forsaken their heritage and do not rigidly practice the t...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
laborer such as a farmer, a tradesman or one in the military3. Like in any other profession, in order to obtain his goal, a monk m...
of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...
this might be. What is most astonishing is that in the past those Christian states did not provide the best of possible climates f...
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...
points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...
(Constitution, Apostles, 1996). The creed derived its name from the initial belief that it was written by the Apostles on the tent...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
and was replaced by Claudius (41-54), the emperor whose forces conquered Britain. Nero followed him and when he was overthrown, Ro...
By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...
of art etched into wood tablets, metal and on engraving plates. The religious overtones were highly pronounced and most of the wor...
evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...
They believe that there is only one acceptable religion and that is theirs. Things are beginning to change in modern society, how...
into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...
To understand however how different Christian groups understand evolution, it is important to understand the two different formula...
where "The hand of the Lord prevailed and the forces of Maxentius were routed (Lactantius 8). Maxentius was driven into the Tiber ...
personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...
the way it was lived" (BBC World Service, 2003). If an individual has lived a bad life, refusing to accept Jesus as Savior and God...
he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...
of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...
arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...
the way for a great number of other inventors to follow, as well as establishing a changing trend in the way the world viewed tech...