Essays 331 - 360
made of its mortality" (Dante 539). For Dante, then, "the way to God is found in human life. This was Abelards message. It was the...
the universal models there are ideas of the way that good will reveal the good news, before death or after death at either immedia...
of the day. There were Kings and Christians and those who were attached to Enlightenment ideals. In essence, Machiavellis world wa...
(Lehigh, n.d.). There would be no churches and no charitable organizations (Lehigh, n.d.). And, there would be no promise of etern...
Soares Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even...
on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...
from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...
Pauline Christianity, which was developing at that time. Eusebius of Caesarea--Eusebius (263-339) studied under Pamphilius, a Ch...
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...
a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...
in Galatia." After his salutation, Paul goes right to the heart of the matter, which is that the people have been thrown into conf...
However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
including "Aaron and his successors" and "Moses and the Prophets" (Maas). Paul pictures Christ as being above the choirs of angels...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
events of the faith, such as God coming to earth in the form of man only once. It was also created out of love. "Although the worl...
In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
existed a triangular relationship between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom. The Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) was exempla...
became less sure of their eternal salvation (Council, 2004). Thus, the tenuous relationship between government and Christianity m...
discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...
War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
in government policy-making, for example....
of the "second death," the experience of the absence of God and thus of a meaninglessness without light. (Ryan, 1997) Aspects...
In five pages this paper examines how the Sermon on the Mount preached by Jesus represents and reflects Christianity beliefs and t...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses how religion and the church evolved in a consideration of John Wesley, William Carey, Isaac ...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses early Christianity in terms of Gnosticism's role and purpose. Six sources are cit...