Essays 61 - 90
see past all the trappings. We see the essence of the other person. We see their potential. We practice what St. Paul wrote: "Love...
New Testament is diverse and encompasses multiple and, sometimes, conflicting perspectives. One of the most intriguing of these ...
In looking at the Bible, and better understanding ones approach, it appears as though John possesses something of a "present escha...
This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...
This book review is on William Stringfellow's A Private and Public Faith. The writer recounts Stringfellow's criticisms of contemp...
This paper relates the life and accomplishments of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, who succeeded the Prophet Mohammad as the leader of the Isl...
There are two topics discussed in this report. What is a Christian worldview and is it compatible with psychology and my personal ...
not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...
has made it and its faith-the overwhelming number of Middle Easterners are Muslim-a center of world attention for decades. This pa...
religions in the world. This paper looks briefly at its establishment in the American West. Discussion The putative founder of Mo...
arise while old ones splinter, and although some hold out hope that interfaith work will lead to peace, others seem determined to ...
reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...
means of research" (Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). In other words, Meier was saying it is impossible for us, today, to obtain t...
any connections to the Jewish faith or even that "Jesus himself was Jewish" (Sandmel 251). However, this situation was very diff...
In fact, rather than disregarding the authority of the Bible and scripture, Diana pointed out that some of the more controversial ...
that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...
his faith (Barclay 65). The covenant with Abraham was dependent on two things: "the free grace of God and the perfect faith of Abr...
first published in 1934). Although there are some subtle differences in their theories, each of these scholars saw humans as bein...
This also explains why autopsies of Jewish people are not allowed (Chabad.org, 2005). Besides the fact that this type of procedure...
parish or congregation that has between 300 and 600 members, a stake encompasses between five and twelve wards and totals at least...
in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be...
offer mankind salvation through faith. He was put to death and rose from the dead. Aside from this the various Christian faiths po...
out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...
list is completely comprehensive, but this is a beginning point, particularly as one prepares to teach the topic to high school st...
The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...
the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...
sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...
came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...
his religion were righteous either. In the Hindu religion there has always been incredibly clear lines drawn between social cla...
Relatively little in terms of documentable fact, however, is known about the early history of Christianity. We look, of course, p...