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Faith and Role of Mahatma Gandhi

his religion were righteous either. In the Hindu religion there has always been incredibly clear lines drawn between social cla...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Faith and its Meaning

Relatively little in terms of documentable fact, however, is known about the early history of Christianity. We look, of course, p...

Death, Religious Faith, and Resurrection

memorial prayer for the dead: "O God full of compassion, who dwell on high, grant perfect peace under the wings of the Shekhinah, ...

Questions of Religion

revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...

Spiritual Traditions of Catholicism

In fact, rather than disregarding the authority of the Bible and scripture, Diana pointed out that some of the more controversial ...

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

Jesus Of History, Jesus Of Faith

means of research" (Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). In other words, Meier was saying it is impossible for us, today, to obtain t...

Continuity between Judaism and Christianity

any connections to the Jewish faith or even that "Jesus himself was Jewish" (Sandmel 251). However, this situation was very diff...

Community and Sri Lankan, Hindu Heritage

from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...

Faith-Based Prison Programs/Constitutionality

offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...

The Virtues Of Love, Faith And Respect

see past all the trappings. We see the essence of the other person. We see their potential. We practice what St. Paul wrote: "Love...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

Christian Ethics

In looking at the Bible, and better understanding ones approach, it appears as though John possesses something of a "present escha...

Impact Of Edict Of Milan On Christian Liturgy

the Church and to members of the Church (NationMaster, 2008). This is an important part of the Edict because it set the stage for ...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, and Hope, Love, and Faith

The boy was intrigued by Santiagos resolve and had faith this man he admired would come through. On one of their early fishing ex...

Impacts to Law Enforcement

security. Others, however, condemn the Act because of its impact to American civil rights. Along with that condemnation has been...

Witches, Faith and the Devil an Analysis of Young Goodman Brown

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

Insurance Contract Law and the Concepts of Misrepresentation and Non-Disclosure

Marine Insurance Act 1909 was effectually a word for word copy of the English Marine Insurance Act 1906, in addition to this the n...

Considering the Soul and Psychology

while the second cannot be perceived by are "intelligible (grasped by thought), not composed of parts, and exempt from dissolution...

Healing With Prayer

Are the criteria for the charismatic part founded on Scripture? If the criteria for the charismatic identity is not founded on Scr...

Jewish History and Customs

Christian Bible. They are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (Rich, 1999). These are considered the Five Books of...

Theology of Missions

New Testament is diverse and encompasses multiple and, sometimes, conflicting perspectives. One of the most intriguing of these ...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Karen Carpenter’s On Top of the World and Christian Faith

Karen when she sang it, but she did not write the lyrics or the song and as such they are not "directly reflective" of personal ex...

Erik Erikson

to teach at Harvard Medical School, Erikson formulated his famous of psychosocial development. When he became an American citizen,...

SHOULD GOVERNMENT FUND FAITH-BASED CHARITIES?

extent of challenges such as hunger and poverty, religious and community associates are more effective with government capital - a...

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...

Management Lessons from Proper Confidence

vision and they are passionately committed to that vision. The most effective leaders are capable of having others adopt the vis...