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Essays 151 - 180
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...
primarily made up of those who have not accepted Christ as their Savior. It is important, therefore, that we take careful, calcul...
throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...
found seems to be religious in intent, but no one is sure (Swanson, 1998). The civilization reached its height in about 2500 BC an...
was born on a certain night that many glean as magical or mystical and it is presumed that this boy grows up to become the Savior ...
Kantian ethical system as an impartial viewpoint: however, when one considers virtue ethics, it is evident that these come from ev...
I of Austrasia and then Pepin III (also known as Pepin the Short) who would ultimately depose the last Merovingian king and become...
we think of as ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick t...
the way it was lived" (BBC World Service, 2003). If an individual has lived a bad life, refusing to accept Jesus as Savior and God...
he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...
of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...
personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
and was replaced by Claudius (41-54), the emperor whose forces conquered Britain. Nero followed him and when he was overthrown, Ro...
By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...
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...
this might be. What is most astonishing is that in the past those Christian states did not provide the best of possible climates f...
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...
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...
In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...
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...
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...
existed a triangular relationship between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom. The Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) was exempla...