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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, ...

Soteriology and Christology

perceived as Jesus being chosen by God to serve a divine purpose. This manner of perceiving Jesus was soon overshadowed by a diffe...

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...

Evaluating Ancient Civilizations

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

American Society and Christian Education

this issue before settling upon a concept known as "the common school," which was implemented in Massachusetts and New York during...

I Will Bear Witness, the Diary of Victor Klemperer

numbers of people who had always defined themselves as proud citizens of the country? It is important to understand that Klemperer...

Issues on Feminism

causes of unemployment may be the advent of the minimum wage law, inasmuch as minimum wage increases have caused pay scales to cha...

The Upanishads and the Atman

same in his "Heart Sura" (Upanishads). The term "Atman" refers to the immortal aspect of mortal existence (Atman-the Soul Eterna...

Comparative Analysis of The Brave Tailor and The Tinder Box

In five pages these nineteenth century fairytales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen are contrasted and compared. ...

Fairytales and Their Importance

is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...

Power in the Pulpit How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons by Cleophus James Larue

illustrate the points they make. Larue himself is a preacher and scholar who is an associate professor of homiletics at Princeton ...

Christian Allegory and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Warren in his famous essay on "Mariner" stated the primary theme is that humanity needs to, somehow, live in harmony with Nature, ...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and its Christian Content

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

Visual Arts and Religion

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

Bernard L. Marthaler's 'The Creed'

that interpretation is tantamount to both translating and understanding the Nicene Creed, noting that "the meaning of words change...

Martin Luther and Erasmus

work he "He tells us that he wrote the Praise of Folly in a week, while staying with More and waiting for his books to turn up.......

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...

Church Elders and Ecclesiology

logical that the same sentiment would apply to the post of "elder" as well. While not stated overtly, the clear implication is tha...

Katie Eriksson's Nursing Theory

grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

Christian Educational Philosophy

and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...

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...

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...

Christian Beliefs in Nursing

beliefs and worldview of the nurse. Salladay (2006) in her review of A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice by Mary M. Doornbos,...

Jesus/Human Relationships Above the Law

contemporary mindset, the word "law" refers to civil law, which is enforced by the police and government officials. As Jesus indic...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

Karen Carpenter’s On Top of the World and Christian Faith

Karen when she sang it, but she did not write the lyrics or the song and as such they are not "directly reflective" of personal ex...

Business Cannot Ignore Pollution: It is a Matter of Life, Death, and Ethics

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...