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Essays 271 - 300
there is also the possibility that his refusal to do away with pagan practices entirely is because of his own adherence to them. ...
prayers. This is very different in Islam. As most of us should know by now, Muslims pray five times each day, each time facing Me...
and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...
medieval periods, which involved numerous activities of economic import, such as the "quarrying, carving and laying of stone, the ...
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 book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...
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...
including "Aaron and his successors" and "Moses and the Prophets" (Maas). Paul pictures Christ as being above the choirs of angels...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
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...
in Galatia." After his salutation, Paul goes right to the heart of the matter, which is that the people have been thrown into conf...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...
basis of the religion (Esposito, 1978). This began his quest for a true religion. Muhammad believed that both Judaism and Christi...
the local political process (Ceasar, 2005). The Dawa party which is religious based was the top winner in that election (Ceasar, ...
And finally, can the nature of Jerusalem as a "sacred space" for all three faiths "throw any light on the conduct of politicians a...
The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...
War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...
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...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
in government policy-making, for example....
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...
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...
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...
sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...