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Parachurch Org./Campus Crusade for Christ

cooked up nationally" (Rivera). This Orlando, Florida organization grew by 8 percent in its revenues in 2004 and 2005, which sho...

What it Means to be a Christian and a Therapist

is the potential for making a bad situation even worse. The therapist must guard against that potential while still providing the...

“A Pretribulation Rapture of the Church”: A Critique

to occur back on earth. The counter view of rapture and Christs second coming, however, is that Christians will also have to end...

Matthew on Jesus

For example, when Jesus metaphorically gives Peter the "keys to the kingdom," Jesus refers to a verse in Isaiah that speaks of the...

Hypostatic Union : Jesus As God And Man

a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

Communication Between the Disciples and Jesus Christ

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you" (Ma...

Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Mutual Funds

number of stocks" (quoted Chabot and Kurz, 2004). These were the fore runners, and the mutual fund has developed in the UK in th...

Jesus of Nazareth As God

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

Paul's Perspective on the Christ Event

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). In this letter, Paul...

La Jetee Film by Chris Marker

how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...

Christ in Evolution According to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...

Development of Simon in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

out of the sea" (5,81). Simon is the only one who realizes that the Beast is not real, but is instead the savagery that lives ins...

Collingwood, Tolstoy and the Art of Frans Floris

that he considers its effect on the public to be morally bad (Jahn, 2000). Of course, in the typical connotation "bad art" is far ...

Parousia and the Son of Man

Man, 2005). One of the most remarkable features of the phrases use in the Gospels is that is used exclusively by Christ and is nev...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

Comparative Analysis of Health Care Systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Medicare/Medicaid faces an increasing number of recipients and a decreasing number of contributors. Alonso-Zaldivar (2005, pg A14...

Islam, Christianity, and Terrorism

society, leading to their religious viewpoint forming the basis of social morality. However, there is also something of a gre...

Christ Like Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

sends through the voices of her characters. Stowe is a master at crafting conversations and employing just the right words for he...

Artistic Representation of the Human Body

ornate. It is believed that this particular sculpture was carved to stand before the burial site of a youth who was the member ...

Misfit Character Symbolic Uses in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

Character Analysis of Simon in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

United States, United Kingdom, and Private Policing

criminal activity far surpasses law enforcements ability to keep it in check is indicative of how vital private policing - "a comp...

Goddess and Motherhood Feminist Conceptual Comparisons

has changed into that of "practicalism" which she describes as a way of thinking that "arises from and is tested against practices...

United Kingdom and United States' Private Printing and Vanity Publishing Industries

talent and new innovative ideas. It is worth noting that texts which are printed privately do not only include the experimental ...

The Gospel According to St. Matthew Film by Pasolini

Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...

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...

4 Aspects of Christian Apologetics

ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...