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The Crusades/Causes and Effects

This research paper discusses the Crusades, focusing on its causes and effects. The writer defines the Crusades as a series of mil...

Book Review, Birch and Rasmussen

is a biblical scholar and the other is a Christian ethicist, and they bring together their individual competencies to offer a comp...

Christian Ethics, A Reflection

as Luther, have been wary of the virtues, regarding the quest for virtue as a path that can lead to self-righteousness, which is "...

Inca Religion, Christianity, Culture and Religion

In five pages this paper discusses the cultural importance of religion in a comparative analysis of the polytheistic Inca religion...

Options for Christian Education

basic Christian doctrine; undervaluing talents of the more artistic members of the congregation; failing to connect the creative v...

Three Possible Ways to Live

This 6 page paper constructs three hypothetical lives, one based on the classical tradition, one based on the Christian tradition,...

An Analysis of Rabbi Kushner's Book, How Good Do We Have To Be?

Garden of Eden (12). His basic premise is that if we, as a society, can change our basic notion of God as a force that punishes pe...

Yoruba and Christian Religious Sacrifices

In eight pages this paper compares and contrasts sacrifice in Christianity and in the ancient Yoruba religion. Eight sources are ...

'Beowulf' and Christian Beliefs

emphatically Christian as in a tone mildly so" (125). John Niles has written that "Attempts to show a specific correlation betw...

The Gender-Divide in Christian Leadership: "Preach Woman Preach"

must face on the pulpit, but a "preacher-to-preacher book", emphasizing instead the various points of commonality that women share...

Introduction to Christian Theology/Gonzalez and Perez

points out that the authors approach their topic principally from the standpoint of church historians, and that their "vision of U...

A Christian Missionary in a Muslim Population

leader of the group told him that was not based on love but on rewards form God. He left the group. He made the leap to Christiani...

Comparing the Christian and the Buddhist Belief Structure

to being divine. However, they may pay reverence to images of Buddha (Gyatso, 2001). Buddha is seen as a teacher or a guide with B...

J.P. Vandenakker's Small Christian Communities and the Parish

In seven pages this text is summarized and analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

St. Francis and Previous Monks on the Concept of Christian Poverty

"On arriving in a certain town, being very hungry, they went, according to the Rule, begging their bread for the love of God....

Comparative Analysis of Christian and Taoist Mysticism

In five pages this research paper compares and contrast these East and West interpretations of mysticism. Five sources are cited ...

The Four Stages of Christian Love

group, which itself was a well-regarded and well-educated order (Harris, 2001). As an advocate for a strong papacy, he commanded a...

Martin Luther, St. Augustine, the Christian Church, and Individualism

In six pages this paper discusses how these two theologians represented the relationship between God and the individual in a compa...

A Memo to Constantine the Great: Recommendations for Christian Church Architecture

primarily made up of those who have not accepted Christ as their Savior. It is important, therefore, that we take careful, calcul...

A Review of The Structure of Christian Existence

This five page essay reviews the book by John B. Cobb, Jr. Two different views of Cobb are pursued. These views are formed around...

Augustine/On Christian Teaching

is pleasure derived from worshiping the Triune God. In Book II, Augustine discusses further the subject of signs. He defines wha...

Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

Christians believe facts that cannot be empirically proven. That is, in fact, the definition of faith. A manager who is a Believer...

A Primer on Christian Worship by William Dyrness

conclusions that emphasizes the ways in which renewing the practices of worship can lead to new opportunities within the realm of ...

Criteria for Christian Salvation

with subsidiary; people are expected to have the opportunity to participate in civil, economic, political and social life (Libreri...

Christian and Jewish Ethics

strictly forbidden. Supported by the assertion that "the life of a person is not his - rather, it belongs to the One Who granted ...

Muslims Christians and Jews at Al Andalus

The Iberian Peninsula, that region of the world we now call Spain and Portugal, fell under Islamic rule in 711 AD. While Islamic ...

Islamic and Christian Fundamentalism and Global Holy War

of fundamentalism, and extremist elements exist in both Islam as well as Christianity. Islamic Fundamentalism is defined as "an u...

Life and Works of the First Roman Christian Emperor Constantine

before Constantius died and the army promptly proclaimed Constantine as Caesar; this was something which worried Galerius, but he ...

The Seven Deadly Sins Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Psychology by Solomon Schimmel

In five pages this paper examines the unethical representation of sin in Schimmel's text. There are no other sources listed....

Subject to None, Subject to All and Christian Contradiction

These apparently biblical contradictions attributed to Martin Luther and Paul are considered in five pages. There is one other so...