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weighing over 2.5 tons, this structure covers over 13 acres and so carefully surveyed so accurately that it aligns perfectly with...

but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

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...

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...

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...

where "The hand of the Lord prevailed and the forces of Maxentius were routed (Lactantius 8). Maxentius was driven into the Tiber ...

this might be. What is most astonishing is that in the past those Christian states did not provide the best of possible climates f...

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...

of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...

evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...

They believe that there is only one acceptable religion and that is theirs. Things are beginning to change in modern society, how...

To understand however how different Christian groups understand evolution, it is important to understand the two different formula...

into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...

in government policy-making, for example....

War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...

discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...

In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...

became less sure of their eternal salvation (Council, 2004). Thus, the tenuous relationship between government and Christianity m...

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

much more land is converted into houses, buildings, parking lots and roads - the very things that transform an otherwise natural v...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

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...

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...

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...