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Jesus of Nazareth As God

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

Encountering God and Diane Eck's Unconvincing Argument

carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...

If God Did Not Exist, Would Morality Exist?

the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...

Biography and Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

Revelation and Gospels Portrayal of Jesus

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

Examining Two Aspects of Islamic History

son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

Hinduism and Mythology

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

Christ and the Theology of Karl Barth

of Gods existence; even in "leaving" God to come to earth Jesus remained with the Father. Though physically separate, spiritually...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

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...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

This essay discusses American Gods by Neil Gaiman in light of the archetypes described by psychologist Carl Jung. Six pages in len...

Searching for Urban Theology

This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...

Church's Perspective on War

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering

This essay is a draft for a homily that would have been delivered shortly after the tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. The homily disc...

Parallels in the Early Church and Contemporary Society

This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...

Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

Critique: “God in the Wasteland”

and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...

Why was I Born Gay? by David McGrinn

This essay is a book review that pertains to David McGrinn's God, Why Was I Born Gay? Biology, the Bible and the Homosexual Debate...

Jesus Second Person in Holy Trinity

If we show that Jesus Christ is the Second Person in the Holy Trinity, we also demonstrate that Jesus is the Son of God, which is ...

Borowski and Wiesel/Surviving Auschwitz

it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...

Instruction of the Deaf, A Film Analysis

to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...

Gilgamesh and Sumerian Religion

on having sex with every bride on her wedding night. It was an imperative belief in the ancient world that for society to exist, t...

Teaching Children the Great Commission

faith development. Stage 2 is related to children from three/four to seven/eight when they experience intuitive-projective faith. ...

Philsophical Issues

ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...

Acts of God

God uses to point to Himself as the power (Samons, 2012). Examples of miracles in the Old Testament include God parting the Red S...

God in Traditional African Religions

nature worship, and may have in common the 3 kind of occultism: Divination, witchcraft (magic) and spiritism, with the sacrifice o...

God, Goodness, and Free Will

to happen. There is also the reality wherein a being that is powerful enough to create the entire world is far beyond...

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

entire novel is the childrens experience with love. Rahels relationship with her twin brother goes far beyond love; despite the fa...