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Religion: Symbols, Systems, Thought and Practice

strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...

Christian Worship Music and Theology

of worship. Canticles are a part of todays liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church" and "The first written chants were associated wit...

Internet Commerce and Christianity

40 % (2004, p.12) of Internet users in general claim that they have either sent or received e-mail messages that have spiritual ...

An Examination of Arianism Theology

but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...

Plato and Eternity

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

Christian Theology and Evolution

Basically, evolutionary theory states that life began on earth as single-celled organisms and evolved over millions of eons to mor...

Comparing Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...

Christian Philosophy of Science

Weavers Ideas Have Consequences speaks to the complexities that emanate from mans shortcomings about the world around him. The co...

Public Schools and Celebration of Halloween

the term today has its roots in William Penns "Holy Experiment" in Pennsylvania when what would become the United States of Americ...

Life and Teachings of Jesus

my Beloved, with you I am well pleased (Luke 4:32) (Willimon, 2001, p. 7). The scene reminds the reader of the account of the crea...

Mixture of Christianity and Paganism in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

student researching this topic has indicated that no additional sources should be used. In writing your own paper, drawing upon th...

Macbeth and Christian Symbolism

people who dabbled in witchcraft were conspiring with "the Devil" (Fripp 646). According to St. Paul, "And then shall that wicke...

Christ Figure Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Christianity

the Christian and the truth regarding Christians as they hide behind the name of religion itself. Another excerpt occurs wherei...

John Winthrop and William Bradford on Character Qualities

is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...

NonWestern Religions and Their Completeness

actual word, religion, comes from literally means bound to(Larue 2004). Thus, a person is dedicated toward living a certain way, b...

Was Martin Luther a Revolutionary or Reformer?

but others merely put forward objections for discussion. Copies of Luthers document spread throughout Europe during 1518 and 151...

Anger Management from a Christian Perspective

authors then move on to a discussion of anger in terms of a three-paradigm approach. First, the source of anger must be uncovered...

The Influence of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo

still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Valentinus and Christian Gnosticism

"claimed to have been instructed by a direct disciple of one of Jesus apostles, an apostolic man by the name of Theodas. Tertullia...

Dan Quayle Article Critique

popular as a lifestyle choice amongst Americans. He refers specifically to these changes as being "dysfunctional", rather than as ...

Christ's and God's Images

reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Contemporary Christian Art

elicited feelings causing you to draw closer to God, to give Him His due praise? And, yes, do you believe that the Spirit can use ...

Pacifist Just War Theory Analysis

the war has a specific goal in mind. NON-CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT The problem, the non-Christian would say, is that these rules are ei...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and its Christian Content

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

Power in the Pulpit How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons by Cleophus James Larue

illustrate the points they make. Larue himself is a preacher and scholar who is an associate professor of homiletics at Princeton ...

Fairytales and Their Importance

is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...

Church Elders and Ecclesiology

logical that the same sentiment would apply to the post of "elder" as well. While not stated overtly, the clear implication is tha...