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Pre Christian Concept of God and Mystery Cults

In eight pages this paper examines the pre Christian Mystery Cults that emphasized God's 'mysteriousness' and discusses its myths ...

Work and the Christian Manager

world to do well, get promoted, earn more money and gain more status. But those are temporal goals. There isnt anything wrong with...

How Cults are Formed and Maintained

of society. How do these cults form? Often, there is one spiritual leader who attracts the group. The newly emerging gurus are m...

Examination of Charismatic Leadership

and the power of the government to act; it is the implementation of formal rules by the society. The second type of authority that...

Pagan Religions and Christianity

Did Christianity borrow ideas and practices from pagan mystery cults. This is an allegation that has been popping up since the 19t...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

Christian Life/Sanctification and Epistle to the Romans

as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...

Motivation Behind Cult Membership

Recent stories of mass suicides of cult members has led to an interest in the people who join cults and their rationale. Tis paper...

Third Person in Trinity

The Holy Trinity is one of Christianity’s most esoteric mysteries. It is confounding, at best. There is one God but three distinct...

Theological Issues

called the Son of God" (Aherne). In John 1:49, Nathaniel, at their first meeting, referred to Jesus as the Son of God (Aherne). Wh...

Lois W. Johnson/Trouble at Wild River

her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

The City of Glass by Paul Auster Critically Analyzed

In five pages Auster's complex mystery novel is critically analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Dreams in Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

give clues as to what is going on in the mind and the past of the person having it. She convincingly creates a context for dream s...

Holocaust and Its Sociopolitical Causes

There has been some evidence that Hitlers rabid anti-Semitism was catalyzed upon his rejection. One of the most prominent judges ...

Neville Chamberlain's Policies of Appeasement

This paper examines the pre World War II appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in tewnty seven pages....

Examining Two Aspects of Islamic History

son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...

Divisions Between Human Epistemology and Divine Epistemology

God that is insufficiently explained by philosophy is referred to as "knowing" (Christian Gospel and Our Culture, 2004). "Knowing...

Pre Second World War Policy of the US

opting to abstain from joining the League of Nations when it was formed. If one had to point at a single cause of World War II and...

God Exists According to the Arguments of Saint Augustine

something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...

Nicaean Creed & Trinitarian Doctrine

A 15 page research paper that examines documents associated with the early Christian Church, such as "The Nicene Creed," as well ...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

The Biblical Story of Cain and Abel

5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, and relates the importance of...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene

theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

Religious Topics

this movement, they are turned against their families, their grades fall and they drop out of school, and they "surrender" their w...

Suicide and Cults Explained

Religious cults have been a fact of life for years, but the phenomenon of mass suicides has recently engrossed the public. This pa...

David Koresh's Branch Davidians and Persuasive Techniques

In ten pages this cult's history and its techniques of persuasion are analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

God's Perfect Judgment

did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...

Knowledge of God

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...