YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Models of the Church by Avery Dulles
Essays 541 - 570
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...
basic Christian doctrine; undervaluing talents of the more artistic members of the congregation; failing to connect the creative v...
same region (Bilton et al, 2008). In many instances different ethnicities tend to have a traditional association with specific rel...
The Catholic Catechism explains that the sacraments are the visible signs of the mystery of salvation with salvation being the hid...
poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...
is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...
This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...
are different types of people who attend. Some go each and every Sunday, and some hardly are ever there. There are still others wh...
were buried in 1823, and John the Baptist, "who conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in Harmony, Pe...
is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
to approach the church, is a very viable approach as well as a very intelligent approach. Chavez argues that the Churchs duty is...
In six pages this research paper discusses women's roles in Latin America and the economic effects, the Catholic Church throughout...
said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...
qualities that he identifies as intrinsic to small, strong congregations as the foundation for his chapters, building upon these t...
that the secular governments. Priests were often criticized as being greedy and extortionate. As a result of this unrest conflict...
uses his own words, saying, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Fathers house into a market!" (John 2:16). Jesus authorit...
only legitimate when it was performed by water immersion (Simmons 38). It is believed that baptism in the early Church was perfor...
carry its full symbolic meaning, which was formulated over time.5 At the time of the historical Last Supper, the Holy Spirit had n...
to the nineteenth century, the pipe organ was predominant, but it soon found a formidable rival in the reed organs that were being...
personally believe on our own" (Duncan, 2003). So the concepts are clear: in a "vertical" religion adherents see God as a distant...
to believe in God and as such does not work for all youth. But, for those who are religious or want to be religious it is invaluab...
hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...
as this passage shows. Examination of the passage 3:12 : Therefore, since we have such hope, we are very bold (NIV). Because of ...
structure and appreciate its cathedral-like atmosphere. Stereotypes images of what a synagogue ought to look like...do not match t...
This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...
should be considered before deciding or not deciding on having an abortion. For this particular discussion, let us consider...