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Book of Acts and the Early Church

In five pages this paper examines the early church as it is presented in the Book of Acts. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Church Construction

But, that was also the age of the Basilican type of church, modeled after the Roman Basilica, which was a large colonnaded buildin...

Unified Christian Belief

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

Tutorial on People and Prayer

acronym - prayers are ACTS of mind and heart: * A-doration and praise of God, who made us and through whom we have whatever we hav...

Various Methods of Funding Church Expansions

was a great idea. As the church grew, the larger sized buildings would attract even more members. However, there was one problem. ...

'Ideal' Parson in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

Stem Cell Research and Issues of Christian Morality

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...

Didache Manuscript on the Twelve Apostles' Teachings

of Life and the Way of Death; 2.) a rituale that deals with baptism, fasting, and Holy Communion; and 3.) the ministry (Chapman, 1...

Inga Clendinnen's Ambivalent Conquests

because he highly suspected that the natives were continuing to worship their own gods instead of practicing Catholicism, he asked...

Latin America and Marriage Ceremonial Changes Before and After the Catholic Church Introduction

the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...

Church Unity and the Significance of the David and Goliath Story

to the concept of monotheism and from that point on, every Jew born is considered to be "a son of Abraham" (Nyrop). Abraham and h...

Daryl Eldridge's The Teaching Ministry of the Church

educator should not be undertaken lightly. Whereas the disciples call is to learn, the Church and the family are called to teach. ...

Saint Christopher and Saint Peter Canonizing Justification

intercede on their behalf before God (2002). Hence, saints serve as role models as well as intercessors (2002). Beyond obvious m...

Models of the Church by Avery Dulles

order" (Dulles PG). The reincarnation of the sacramental model, according to Dulles, is traced back some sixty years ago when th...

Individual Church Marketing

for a number of reasons. Therefore, it requires those in administrative positions to think of St. X as a product and develop an ap...

Overview of the Catholic Church

in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...

State and Church Orthodoxies' Response of Francisco Goya

other international symbol, art strips away the barriers inherent to the limitations dominant orthodoxies of Church and State have...

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...

Elizabethan Drama, Scriptures, and the Christian Church

In fact, Lewis Wagers 1567 morality play based on biblical teachings, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, presented a chara...

Print Media and Its Coverage of Pedophilia and Catholicism

pedophile activity by priests, about keeping secrets in the hierarchy. Then the hierarchy made a mistake by trying to spin the ped...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

Development and Christian Church Influence on British Cinema

political practice. Perhaps the most obvious ways in which these influences manifested themselves were in censorship, and in the w...

Nally v. Grace Community Church

him (Plummer, 1985). However, while at UCLA, his roommate introduced him to evangelical Christianity, and Nally joined Grace Commu...

Church Oppression and the Heliocentric Theory of Galileo

main opposition "the absolute truth"....] After twelve years of inquiry, the Vatican concluded recently that both sides in ...

The Separation of Church and State

todays political system, consider the following "specific Machiavellian dictates"5 that are utilized in contemporary politics: * ...

Introducing Youth to Christianity

into a "good" college, and therefore have a "good" life. Unfortunately, in these situations, religion tends to be on the bottom of...

Examination of Catholic Social Teaching

document has been the case for corporate accountability, which include within them the concepts of subsidiarity, solidarity and hu...

The Mosaic Timeline -- Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore

The oldest surviving example of mosaic in a Christian church, the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome shows Christianity's biblical timel...

Gay Marriages and the Church

on the sanctity of traditional matrimony, traditional values, where a man and a woman join lives to create a family. Sex may be a...

Roman Catholic Church and Homosexuality

must refrain from homosexual activity if they are to abide by Biblical directives. The issues which the Catholic Church is confro...