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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...
believe Jesus (Isa in Arabic) is the son of God, or the human incarnate of God (Hasan, 2009). However, in Islam, Jesus is regarde...
for our humanity". While religion can function to challenge and change prevalent social beliefs, it must also be remembered th...
strictly forbidden. Supported by the assertion that "the life of a person is not his - rather, it belongs to the One Who granted ...
see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...
comes from soter, which is translated as savior (Keathley, 2007). Christ saved humankind with His sacrifice. In other words, Chris...
tradition, also included transmigration: "Karma is ... the momentum of our actions that propels us through sa?sara, the continuous...
peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...
managers, it actually has its roots in the Bible. Jesus is the quintessential example of a servant leader and He taught His apostl...
20:9-16. Slave gangs were often used by large landowners. The author points out that this custom would have existed during Jesus l...
It might be contended that the development...
and glorification. By a calling a person essentially is pulled out of a world "of sin and into union with Christ. This gives him a...
at that time. It was always in turmoil with one battle or one war or another being waged. The Greco-Roman world consists of the al...
only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...
newly unchanging societal conditions, and passing this culture down to their children, who largely lived in the same geographical ...
ethically necessary to offer the right of sanctuary to individuals who are fleeing political oppression (Voice of America, 2009). ...
of his text The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. Justin Gonzalez discusses "The C...
Mission In this chapter, Justin Gonzalez elaborates further on the history of the early Christian church, as recorded in Acts, re...
5, "First Conflicts with the State," begins by pointing out that early Christianity had a violent beginning.i The first section ex...
Pliny and Trajan This is the first section of chapter 6, "Persecution in the Second Century," and it deals with the actions of Pl...
Lofty Criticism As mentioned in the previous chapter, due to the Roman policy towards Christianity throughout the second century ...
this chapter is on describing the variety of backgrounds and experience that informed early interpretations of the gospel message....
chapter by explaining that the writings of the apologists were all in response to specific topics, such as issues dealing with per...
of Early Christians Gonzalez begins this chapter by pointing out that surviving documents by the leaders of the church or those d...
Gonzalezs text, "The Great Persecution and the Final Victory," focuses on Christian persecution under Diocletian, which is charact...