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Did Christianity borrow ideas and practices from pagan mystery cults. This is an allegation that has been popping up since the 19t...

This essay draws upon three writings from the second century to discuss the way in which Roman authorities perceived Christianity ...

This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...

Tickle writes that there is an upheaval in Christianity about every 500 years and we are going through one now. It is called the G...

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

Christianity expanded and grew exponentially in the early centuries. There were many reasons for this quick growth including its m...

This essay presents a discussion of specific traditions and beliefs relevant to the Hinduism and Christianity. Seven pages in leng...

impossible to really illustrate the origins of the two as they involve many historical and religious ideals. For example, in relat...

of the day. There were Kings and Christians and those who were attached to Enlightenment ideals. In essence, Machiavellis world wa...

(Lehigh, n.d.). There would be no churches and no charitable organizations (Lehigh, n.d.). And, there would be no promise of etern...

eternity. There is significant archaeological evidence supporting this "Book" (RBC Ministries). * Its explanation for life. All re...

built a temple in honor of Jehovah (Yahweh). Following the construction of the Temple on Mt. Moriah in about the 10th century B.C...

p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...

including "Aaron and his successors" and "Moses and the Prophets" (Maas). Paul pictures Christ as being above the choirs of angels...

over the centuries, and in those changes we can see the way in which the teachings of the religion have turned outward to impact t...

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

at the other religions, we see that all three believe in the "Word of God" as a direct and personal message to Man from the Divine...

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

from Christian forces, one of the first actions that they took on occupying the city was to allow Jews to reenter Jerusalem, havin...

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...

events of the faith, such as God coming to earth in the form of man only once. It was also created out of love. "Although the worl...

In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

existed a triangular relationship between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom. The Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) was exempla...

became less sure of their eternal salvation (Council, 2004). Thus, the tenuous relationship between government and Christianity m...

The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...

not accomplish this task until the end of time (Stepaniants, 2002). According to Zoroastrian cosmology, the history of humanity co...

discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...

first arose, "on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become cor...

Soares Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even...