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Christian Worship and the Sacraments

By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Christianity

the Christian and the truth regarding Christians as they hide behind the name of religion itself. Another excerpt occurs wherei...

Christian Creeds, Confessions of Faith, Councils and Their Historical Significance

(Constitution, Apostles, 1996). The creed derived its name from the initial belief that it was written by the Apostles on the tent...

Christianity History and Significance of 'Church Order'

holding certain truths? The members of the Church are united, not by their belief in certain men, but by their belief in certain ...

Secular and Christian Relationship

this might be. What is most astonishing is that in the past those Christian states did not provide the best of possible climates f...

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...

Elders According to Doctrine of Ecclesiology

the Bible is "overseer," the implication is that the verse is referring to a position of leadership in which the individual is res...

Ibo Society and Lost Male Status Following the White Missionary Arrival

head position was responsible for "settling family disputes, and because he controlled the channel of communication with the all-i...

'Jerusalem Delivered' by Torquato Tasso

the aid of Fortune herself as a guide, travel to the Fortunate Islands. There, they scale a mountain, fighting a dragon and a lion...

Religious Connotations of 'Just War'

with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...

Research Study Proposal on Christian Parenting

Ostensibly, the Pardoner is a man of God. However, in the prologue to his tale, the Pardoner goes to great pains to elucidate his ...

Christian Counseling Pros and Cons

the same as other parts of the country, it would seem. One of the first Christian Counseling centers appears to have started in th...

Christian Theology, Family, and Marriage

covenant of irrevocable personal consent" and that procreation was not the sole purpose or the basis for the union (Lawler, 2001, ...

Black Studies and America's Cultural Assumptions

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

Jesus in the Qua-ran and in the Bible

is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...

The Prophetess by Njabulo Ndebele, Light and Darkness Images

encompassed in darkness. Ndebele uses phrases and words such as the following: He was anxious about where the woman was...

Medieval Christianity and the Arch Angel Michael Diptych

examination of one specific piece of sculpture of the time (a sculpture of the Archangel Michael as he was depicted on a sixth cen...

A Memo to Constantine the Great: Recommendations for Christian Church Architecture

primarily made up of those who have not accepted Christ as their Savior. It is important, therefore, that we take careful, calcul...

The Passover

slaves rather than honored guests. Four hundred years later, God sent Moses to the current Pharaoh with the demand to allow the H...

Menno Simons and the ‘Radical’ Reformation

the Reformation had yet to influence the church policies of the Netherlands, and was limited to "local resistance to the sacrament...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Social Work and the Importance of the Christian Thought

as well as their learning abilities. The Bible teaches people that it is important, and crucial, to care for others and to neve...

Vietnam War Books

but rather gives the reader the big picture in respect to what was occurring on either side and how the people felt about what was...

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...

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...

Evaluating Ancient Civilizations

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

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...