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"Church as Forgiving Community," Summary and Reflection

This essay offers a summary of "The Church as Forgiving Community" by Chad M. Magnuson and Robert D. Enright. The article describe...

The Fight Against Slavery and the Bible

This paper traces the importance of religion in the fight against slavery. Ironically, although the African Methodist Episcopal C...

Koinonia, Views of L.F. Fuchs

This essay pertains to the perspective of theologian L.F. Fuchs on koinonia, a defining concept that characterizes the early Chris...

Koinonia, the Perspective of Jeffrey Gros

This essay pertains to theologian Jeffrey Gros's views on the biblical concept of koinonia, which translates as "fellowship" Gros ...

TheAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church, History and Ordination

This essay pertains to the history and ordinary processes of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Three pages in length, ...

Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833, Course Reading Assignment

This 3 page paper gives an example of answers to reading questions about story written by Richard Allen. This paper includes his ...

Communications, Leadership, Church Organization

This paper presents the speaker notes to a twelve-slide power point presentation, khspnotchman.ppt, and pertains to the topic lead...

Justification By Faith

Justification by faith alone is what Paul preached. It was different than what the people had heard before. At the time he wrote t...

Holy Spirit, Church, and Faith

Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...

Feminist Discourse in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

Christianity and Jesus of Nazareth

Christs work on earth, His incarnation, His passion and death and His resurrection. At least two Apostles, John and Paul, perceive...

The Separation of Church and State

todays political system, consider the following "specific Machiavellian dictates"5 that are utilized in contemporary politics: * ...

Nally v. Grace Community Church

him (Plummer, 1985). However, while at UCLA, his roommate introduced him to evangelical Christianity, and Nally joined Grace Commu...

Church Oppression and the Heliocentric Theory of Galileo

main opposition "the absolute truth"....] After twelve years of inquiry, the Vatican concluded recently that both sides in ...

Development and Christian Church Influence on British Cinema

political practice. Perhaps the most obvious ways in which these influences manifested themselves were in censorship, and in the w...

Gay Marriages and the Church

on the sanctity of traditional matrimony, traditional values, where a man and a woman join lives to create a family. Sex may be a...

Introducing Youth to Christianity

into a "good" college, and therefore have a "good" life. Unfortunately, in these situations, religion tends to be on the bottom of...

Life of Charlemagne by Einhard, History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours, the Monarchy and the Church

In five pages the historic relationship between the monarchy and the Church as portrayed in Life of Charlemagne and History of the...

Francois Villon's 'Testament' and the Theme of Death

In 10 pages this 15th century poem is examined in terms of its rather surprising modern treatment of death that was contrary to Ch...

Taxation and Churches

In 6 pages this paper examines if churches should be expected to pay government taxes in a consideration of the U.S. Constitution,...

Content and Impact of Martin Luther's 95 Thesis

that while the 95 Theses have been regarded as a bold declaration of independence for the Protestant church" (Anonymous 21), some ...

Church and State Separation and Prayer in Public Schools

In 7 pages this paper examines public school prayer and the impact of church and state separation. There are 6 sources cited in t...

Church Doctrine and Gay Marriages

In seven pages this paper argues that unlike Americans in general Church doctrine is moving toward a greater acceptance of homosex...

Black Church and Community

In a paper consisting of ten pages the ways in which the Black Church strengthens the black community are explored. Eight sources...

U.S. Constitution's 1st Amendment and Church and State Separation

bitter conflict and debate. In Philadelphia, for example, full-scale riots and bloodshed erupted in the 1840s over which version o...

China and Christianity

one more thing that has plagued groups around the world, and that is religious persecution. In fact, a conservative lobbying group...

'Two Swords' of Pope Gelasius I

In five pages the Pope's notion of a distinction between church and state and the impact of this dualist approach to authority are...

Influence of the Black Church on America and Civil Rights

In seven pages this paper examines the influence the Black Church as exerted on the United States and on the civil rights movement...

Unified Christian Belief

In six pages this paper examines the unity of belief that was called for by The Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on ...

Inga Clendinnen's Ambivalent Conquests

because he highly suspected that the natives were continuing to worship their own gods instead of practicing Catholicism, he asked...