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Print Media and Its Coverage of Pedophilia and Catholicism

pedophile activity by priests, about keeping secrets in the hierarchy. Then the hierarchy made a mistake by trying to spin the ped...

Elizabethan Drama, Scriptures, and the Christian Church

In fact, Lewis Wagers 1567 morality play based on biblical teachings, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, presented a chara...

Church Construction

But, that was also the age of the Basilican type of church, modeled after the Roman Basilica, which was a large colonnaded buildin...

Unified Christian Belief

In six pages this paper examines the unity of belief that was called for by The Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on ...

Tutorial on People and Prayer

acronym - prayers are ACTS of mind and heart: * A-doration and praise of God, who made us and through whom we have whatever we hav...

Various Methods of Funding Church Expansions

was a great idea. As the church grew, the larger sized buildings would attract even more members. However, there was one problem. ...

Options for Christian Education

basic Christian doctrine; undervaluing talents of the more artistic members of the congregation; failing to connect the creative v...

Chapter 3, Gonzalez, The Early Church

of his text The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. Justin Gonzalez discusses "The C...

Chapter 4 in Gonzalez's The Early Church

Mission In this chapter, Justin Gonzalez elaborates further on the history of the early Christian church, as recorded in Acts, re...

Chapter 5, Gonzalez, The Early Church

5, "First Conflicts with the State," begins by pointing out that early Christianity had a violent beginning.i The first section ex...

Chapter 6, Gonzalez, The Early Church,

Pliny and Trajan This is the first section of chapter 6, "Persecution in the Second Century," and it deals with the actions of Pl...

Chapter 7, Gonzalez, The Early Church

Lofty Criticism As mentioned in the previous chapter, due to the Roman policy towards Christianity throughout the second century ...

Chapter 8, Gonzalez, The Early Church

this chapter is on describing the variety of backgrounds and experience that informed early interpretations of the gospel message....

Chapter 9, Gonzalez, The Early Church

chapter by explaining that the writings of the apologists were all in response to specific topics, such as issues dealing with per...

Chapter 11, Gonzalez, The Early Church

of Early Christians Gonzalez begins this chapter by pointing out that surviving documents by the leaders of the church or those d...

Chapter 12, Gonzalez, The Early Church

Gonzalezs text, "The Great Persecution and the Final Victory," focuses on Christian persecution under Diocletian, which is charact...

Providing Christian Witness is a Multi-Religion Environment

same region (Bilton et al, 2008). In many instances different ethnicities tend to have a traditional association with specific rel...

The Early Church, Part 3: Medieval Christianity/Gonzalez

New Order, Chapter 26 The Barbarian Kingdoms: Gonzalez points out that while, the Roman perspective was that the invaders were si...

Birth Control and the Catholic Church

this new mandate. Catholic universities sent letters to the President asking him to exempt all religious individuals and instituti...

Theology and Philosophy in the Church

Aquinas. There is a lack of unity in terms of theology. Aquinas attempted to solve this very problem during his time. Aquinass wor...

The Blurring of the Lines in Policymaking

to the scientific merit of this process or to the belief that scientists would violate the rights of human subjects. In fact, int...

Middle Ages

Ages were a time of intense emotion. Every event brought intense feelings and the people expressed those feelings as a child might...

Christ and Church - Sacraments

The Catholic Catechism explains that the sacraments are the visible signs of the mystery of salvation with salvation being the hid...

Teachers' Roles in Character Education: Examining the Controversy

ongoing debate about how much and how far the educational system should influence children. Is it appropriate for that system and ...

The Church and the Empire in the 4th Century

in the late Third and early Fourth centuries. Diocletian had ruled with an iron hand. He established a four-fold division of power...

Old Testament Devotionals and Contemporary Interpretations

poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and t...

Methodist Church and Human Sexuality

to individuals, families and the social order" ("Human," 2004). The policy statement then goes on to indicate its opposition to ...

Comparing United Methodist to Russian Orthodoxy

"in the sacrament of Confession with a priest" ("The Sacraments, 2010). As with many Protestant sects, the United Methodist Chur...

Jefferson, Church, and State

The concept of just how related politics should be to religion has been one that has occupied the minds of the greatest thinkers o...

Religious Freedom Thanks to Rodger Williams

in large part because they wanted to be allowed to practice religion as they saw fit. Given that, its odd to note that the society...