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Child Welfare, Religion, Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Parental Rights

MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient s...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Religions of the World

beliefs and the way in which such beliefs shape cultural practices and social infrastructures such as the law and the political sy...

Poetic Explication of 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

Palm Bay, Florida's First Presbyterian Church

nylon clothing (First Presbyterian Church of Palm Bay, Florida [4]). The church itself seems to be a relatively old building tha...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

Faith and Mysticism

The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...

Worldview of Catholicism

list is completely comprehensive, but this is a beginning point, particularly as one prepares to teach the topic to high school st...

Perspectives on Human Nature

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...

Hinduism and Mythology

came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...

Islam vs. Christianity, a Comparison

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

Faith and Role of Mahatma Gandhi

his religion were righteous either. In the Hindu religion there has always been incredibly clear lines drawn between social cla...

Faith and its Meaning

Relatively little in terms of documentable fact, however, is known about the early history of Christianity. We look, of course, p...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Religion, Ethics, and Taxes

tax fraud served to support the belief that religious leaders and people of faith are not exempt from immoral actions regarding mo...

Virgin Mary's Visions and Significance

image they could understand and comprehend. They would envision her in clothing they comprehended and related to, images of heaven...

Faith Hospital Case Study

hospital will have to reduce costs by 15 percent to break even. 5. Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders are implemented differently by ...

Mysticism, Religious Experience, and Faith

was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must belie...

Analysis of Faith Healing

or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, would faith healing be drawn into question when one does not require evidence to s...

Shinto The Kami Way by Ono

kami intuitively at the depth of their consciousness and communicate with the kami directly without having formed the kami-idea co...

Psychological Explanation of Faith Based Behavior

first published in 1934). Although there are some subtle differences in their theories, each of these scholars saw humans as bein...

Exegesis of Romans IV, Verses Thirteen through Twenty Five

his faith (Barclay 65). The covenant with Abraham was dependent on two things: "the free grace of God and the perfect faith of Abr...

Culture, Politics, and Religious Faith

a precarious adventure in the Middle East the motives for which are mixed. While Bush and other politicians make it clear that the...

Jewish Burial And Mourning Customs

This also explains why autopsies of Jewish people are not allowed (Chabad.org, 2005). Besides the fact that this type of procedure...

The Mormon Church - Church Of Latter Day Saints

parish or congregation that has between 300 and 600 members, a stake encompasses between five and twelve wards and totals at least...

Strength of Will and Compassion in Frederick Douglass's Narrative

In four pages this paper examines how the author's characteristics of perseverance, faith in the truth, gift for observation, educ...

Mass Media and Its Problems

In five pages this paper examines problems including public loss of faith, prejudices, and stereotypes as they pertain to the mass...

A Fictional Account of a Faith-Based Journey

as many people as possible. In other words, they took literally the Biblical injunction to carry the Good News throughout all the ...

Faith and Reason by Peter Abelard

In twelve pages this paper examines the religious conflict between reason and faith as considered in the works of Peter Abelard. ...

Enlightenment's Age of Reason and Thomas Paine

In five pages this essay argues in support of the effectiveness of Thomas Paine's preference for reason over supernatural faith. ...