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Christology of Matthew Fox

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...

A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: ITS INFLUENCE ON POLITICS AND SOCIETY FROM 2000 BCE TO 1500 CE

This 5-page paper examines the history of the Catholic Church and Christianity until 1500 BCE, and examines its influence on gover...

Catholic Social Instruction and the Value of Family and Marriage

social structure. His prediction of severely negative consequences directly related to artificial contraception shed light upon t...

The Eventual Decline of Latin as a Spoken Language

hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...

Democracy of Lithuania and the Church's Role

the "mechanical" society grows out of social cohesion, which derives from similarities between individuals in a social group, and ...

The Sources of Christian Ethics by Pinckaers

views should be assessed and aligned. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians that they should make the most of every oppo...

Roman Catholic Church and Homosexuality

must refrain from homosexual activity if they are to abide by Biblical directives. The issues which the Catholic Church is confro...

Galileo and Why He Should Have Been Excommunicated

all involvement with Copernicanism and to stop teaching and talking about this approach (ChristianAnswers.net). The fact that he d...

Mediator Dei

by an official of the Church and attended by faithful members of the church. Although the Popes encyclical clarified the sacred ...

Reaction Essay/Pedophiles & Priests

abusers" (Jenkins 133). This use of language paints Church officials as innocent victims of social change, rather than being knowi...

The Coming of Jesus Christ

offer mankind salvation through faith. He was put to death and rose from the dead. Aside from this the various Christian faiths po...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

Roman Catholic Beliefs About Lord's Supper

it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness...

The Beatitudes in Matthew

cognitively prepare the hearer for the evangelical message of salvation that will soon follow and the third interpretation is that...

A Study of Anabaptist Reform

controversial issue in the sixteenth century, as ecclesiastical and state authorities viewed the ritual of infant baptism as repre...

Luke 5:36-39

the old" (Luke 5:36). Jesus continues the lesson by discussing wineskins. If you put new wine in old skins, "the new wine will b...

Ethical Implications Of The Sacraments

for leaders to be servants by washing the feet of His Apostles. He loved those who were unloved, He forgave His enemies, even with...

The Fallibility of the Pope

stories in that he was a teacher, a healer, a preacher and a savior. There are many stories of his having the ability to heal, wal...

Scripture and Tradition in Roman Catholic Teaching

God. Achieving that goal also requires the instruction found in revelations made from God to various Catholic leaders over the ce...

Sacrament of Confirmation

us more deeply" in divine association.4 Writer Christina Zaker points out that the references in the Catechism to spiritual matur...

Protestant & Catholic Reformations

a sermon by Johann Tetzel, he offers his congregation a sales pitch that stresses the logic of purchasing an indulgence, which thr...

Augustine’s Confessions

grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...

Holy Water

As they enter, the dip finger tips of their right hand into a font of water that has been consecrated by a priest and they make th...

How Flannery O’Connor Reveals Herself in Her Short Stories ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’ ‘Good Country People,’ and ‘Greenleaf’

of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...

Modernism And Religion

new, more modernistic approach. During this period, there was a particular emphasis placed upon rationalism, which was a theory a...

Gay Marriage and the Catholic Church

in these times of change and forward movement. Will the Catholic Church change its stance? That remains to be seen. This is like e...

Catholic Church: Colonial Times to Present Day

Mississippi valleys and later in the Spanish regions of Florida, the Southwest and California, Catholics were a decided minority i...

The Ethical Philosophy and Moral Actions of Pope John Paul II

study of philosophy; it is a Church that asks questions, even when the answers may be difficult to accept. The members of the Soci...