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points out that the authors approach their topic principally from the standpoint of church historians, and that their "vision of U...

with subsidiary; people are expected to have the opportunity to participate in civil, economic, political and social life (Libreri...

crusades and the conclusions of Christian religious leaders, such as Martin Luther, who considered the Muslim concept of Allah to ...

must face on the pulpit, but a "preacher-to-preacher book", emphasizing instead the various points of commonality that women share...

to being divine. However, they may pay reverence to images of Buddha (Gyatso, 2001). Buddha is seen as a teacher or a guide with B...

leader of the group told him that was not based on love but on rewards form God. He left the group. He made the leap to Christiani...

be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...

made of its mortality" (Dante 539). For Dante, then, "the way to God is found in human life. This was Abelards message. It was the...

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

the Church and to members of the Church (NationMaster, 2008). This is an important part of the Edict because it set the stage for ...

is pleasure derived from worshiping the Triune God. In Book II, Augustine discusses further the subject of signs. He defines wha...

Christians believe facts that cannot be empirically proven. That is, in fact, the definition of faith. A manager who is a Believer...

conclusions that emphasizes the ways in which renewing the practices of worship can lead to new opportunities within the realm of ...

of fundamentalism, and extremist elements exist in both Islam as well as Christianity. Islamic Fundamentalism is defined as "an u...

strictly forbidden. Supported by the assertion that "the life of a person is not his - rather, it belongs to the One Who granted ...

This five page essay reviews the book by John B. Cobb, Jr. Two different views of Cobb are pursued. These views are formed around...

fifty years (Sander 27). However, other sources indicate that the rate of intermarriage is on the rise. The 2000 National Jewish P...

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

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...

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

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

(17). First of all, Christian faith is predicated on the experience of Jesus as a human being -- "his life, death, resurrection, ...

The reason these cells are called stem cells is because they are like a stem, these cells are the source of every kind of tissue t...

we think of as ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick t...

However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...

wanted only man as His own: God, Who has fatherly concern for everyone, has willed that all men should constitute one family and ...

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...

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...

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

This sacrifice, however, did not require the sinner to relinquish his life, for God realized that would be too great a cost, so He...