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Christology of Paul Johannes Tillich

biography provides insight as to the factors that led him toward his particular christological perspective. Biographical backgrou...

Teens and Drunk Driving

categories (Turrisi, 2004). Being under the legal drinking age has little impact upon the problem itself (Turrisi, 2004)....

Relationship Dynamics Between Pre and Post Constantine Romans and Christians

times would follow. During this time Christians took to meeting in secret places, often in private residences. Rome increased its ...

Kathleen R. Fischer and Thomas N. Hart's Christian Foundations An Introduction To Faith In Our Time

relate their text to modern life. For instance, the authors discuss the fact that even though so many Americans have all of the ma...

Perspectives on Human Nature

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...

Christian Views on Euthanasia

that Dutch physicians have been practicing infant euthanasia for some time. This is not an issue of sex selection or the economic...

Christian Symbolism in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

because he sounds wonderful. The three children find Aslan while Edmund goes to the witch and tells her that Aslan is going to s...

Should Health Care Be Considered a Right in the U.S.?

discussion. It is a way to present his theory on justice and what is right and wrong. Rawls view is basically that any rational h...

Parallels in the Christian Verses the Islamic Views of Human Nature

obvious, even if one had not heard the laws of God as such, this ignorance has never constituted an excuse for sin. As this indica...

Muslim and Christian Relationships and How They Were Improved by Napoleon

country, he had done a lot of good there. He served as Emperor between 1804 and 1814 and then again between 1814 and 1815. He wou...

Freud, Cooley, Mead, Friendship, and Brooklyn, New York's Crown Heights Community

people and their farming and small area within a larger place within a town. My neighborhood in Brooklyns community is a five-bloc...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

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...

Religious Extremist Movements

that are more passive and believe that "God will punish" or "evil will be punished" much less threatening than those that say "God...

Moral Living from a Christian Viewpoint

a relationship with Him, cultivating that relationship is possible. Further, the relationship with God is personal. Despite the fa...

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...

Exegesis of I Corinthians 8 1 to 13

what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meant again, so that I will not cause him to fall" (I Cor. 8:13). ...

Evaluating Ancient Civilizations

of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...

Religious Beliefs of the 1st Century

and free them from years of persecution (Jesus Institute, 2005). Since Jesus came in peace, many did not accept Him as the true Me...

Issues in Christian Education

suggests that there is a need to consider the biblical foundations noted, including Old and New Testament support for Christian ed...

Human Cloning from a Christian Perspective

order to consider the benefits, though, it is first necessary to relate existing arguments against human cloning. In particular, ...

The Morality of a Materialistic Society

While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...

Literature Review on Christian and Psychological Theories of Personality

mind of the observed and verified by a criteria of "consistency, coherence and practical usefulness" (Ehrenreich, 1997, p. 34). A ...

Essay on Hans Christian Andersen

were dashed when his voice began to change; however, an off-hand remark that referred to him as a poet inspired Andersen and he be...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Pentecostal Beliefs

covenant and the new way. In Acts, Luke recounts acts of the Spirit. It is believed Luke wrote this to "establish Christianity as...

European Difficulties to Transform from Pagan to Christian in the Poems "Song of Roland" and "Beowulf"

paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....

Can the Crusades be Justified?

Christian princes in Europe to go on a crusade to rescue the Holy Land from the Turks" (The Christian Crusades 1095-1291). This au...

Terrorism Questions

of suspicion. Difference between domestic and international terrorism According to the United States Department of Defense, terr...

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...