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Essays 271 - 300
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...
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...
a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...
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 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 ...
the local political process (Ceasar, 2005). The Dawa party which is religious based was the top winner in that election (Ceasar, ...
from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...
represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...
into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...
To understand however how different Christian groups understand evolution, it is important to understand the two different formula...
They believe that there is only one acceptable religion and that is theirs. Things are beginning to change in modern society, how...
of art etched into wood tablets, metal and on engraving plates. The religious overtones were highly pronounced and most of the wor...
evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...
points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...
(Constitution, Apostles, 1996). The creed derived its name from the initial belief that it was written by the Apostles on the tent...
of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
laborer such as a farmer, a tradesman or one in the military3. Like in any other profession, in order to obtain his goal, a monk m...
analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...
offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...
understand the draw to the marginalized groups such as the converted Jews, but to see the evidence which supported the recruit of ...
very important fact when considering the relationship between the classics and Christianity in Miltons poem by stating the followi...
weighing over 2.5 tons, this structure covers over 13 acres and so carefully surveyed so accurately that it aligns perfectly with...
that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...
will proclaim their "Christian" beliefs but such beliefs often do not square with the traditional Christian ideologies of either t...