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This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...
Christianity expanded and grew exponentially in the early centuries. There were many reasons for this quick growth including its m...
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...
Constantine, Chapter 13 From Rome to Constantinople: This section describes the rule of Constantine from his initial victory and ...
New Order, Chapter 26 The Barbarian Kingdoms: Gonzalez points out that while, the Roman perspective was that the invaders were si...
covenant between God and humanity, a covenant that was the fulfillment of prophecy but also one that included all of humanity. T...
leader of the group told him that was not based on love but on rewards form God. He left the group. He made the leap to Christiani...
Pauline Christianity, which was developing at that time. Eusebius of Caesarea--Eusebius (263-339) studied under Pamphilius, a Ch...
However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...
where "The hand of the Lord prevailed and the forces of Maxentius were routed (Lactantius 8). Maxentius was driven into the Tiber ...
Christianity is and always has been the dominant religious preference in the United States. It was founded on the philosophy of r...
embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...
sensory experience psychologically changes with age. He referred to the specific structures involved as "schemes" (Berk, 2004, p 2...
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...
In five pages mass media and the impact of Christianity are considered in a fifty year forecast with a discussion of Christian the...
In five pages the impact Christianity will have on mass media over the next fifty years is forecasted. There are five bibliograph...
In twelve pages this paper considers how Christianity was introduced to Japan and its spread over a period of 300 years by British...
to itself. However, there are costs when using funding from reserves, there are opportunity costs. If the money is taken out of th...
of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...
theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...
entire society will suffer. Why limit the contributions of half the population because of the tradition of male dominance? Becau...
different things like race, gender and ethnicity (Sparks, Gutierrez and Phillips, 1997). Kerr reports "A sense of self is also a...