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Essays 271 - 300
on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...
first arose, "on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become cor...
impossible to really illustrate the origins of the two as they involve many historical and religious ideals. For example, in relat...
of the day. There were Kings and Christians and those who were attached to Enlightenment ideals. In essence, Machiavellis world wa...
is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...
p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...
Soares Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even...
the universal models there are ideas of the way that good will reveal the good news, before death or after death at either immedia...
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...
from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...
basis of the religion (Esposito, 1978). This began his quest for a true religion. Muhammad believed that both Judaism and Christi...
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 ...
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...
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...
War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...
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...
will proclaim their "Christian" beliefs but such beliefs often do not square with the traditional Christian ideologies of either t...
ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...
date). In order to fit into the economic Western world, many Jews have forsaken their heritage and do not rigidly practice the t...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
in government policy-making, for example....
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...
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...