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Death, Religious Faith, and Resurrection

memorial prayer for the dead: "O God full of compassion, who dwell on high, grant perfect peace under the wings of the Shekhinah, ...

Vietnam War Books

but rather gives the reader the big picture in respect to what was occurring on either side and how the people felt about what was...

Issues in Christian Education

suggests that there is a need to consider the biblical foundations noted, including Old and New Testament support for Christian ed...

Jacques Abbadie and the Enlightenment Influence

light that does not deceive us" (Whelan, 2002, p. 1). This "natural light," in his estimation enables human beings to arrive at "...

Cultural Variations Between Islam and America

Texts of the Worlds Religions" presents Islam as a religion which stresses that an individuals submission to Allah is what is most...

The Jesus Myth by Andrew Greeley

edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...

Christian Dior

the company was one of the first to develop and market a fashion house fragrance under the name Miss Dior and also opened internat...

Questions on the Crusades

Cairo. Also, the recent deaths meant that there was a power vacuum and no decisive leadership anywhere. Therefore, Muslim forces n...

Hans Christian Andersen/The Nightingale

begins by describing the elaborate, beautiful and impractical nature of the Chinese Emperors palace, which is so delicate that you...

Medieval Sculpture

Medieval sculpture is of special interest in regard to the varying influence of the Christian faith on the sculpture that was prod...

Caesar Vespasian

of the city, as it was under his reign that construction on the Colosseum was started.6 As Suetonius indicates, Vespasian undert...

Role of Paul in Early Church/Early Russian History

is primarily tied to their being a Slavic people. The author indicates that the Slavs settled "beside the Danube, where the Hungar...

Muslim and Christian Conflict

"the Quran states: The closest in affection to [Muslims] are those who say: We are Christians, for among them are priests and monk...

Salvation and the Old Testament

this account of Jesus ministry portrays it as a "coherent judgment comprising sin, chastisement and restoration" (Clifford and Ana...

Love According to Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

Mental Retardation & Psychopathology

mental illness. One area of practice where this factor in Christian psychiatric practice may prove effective is in regards to the...

History of Christianity

particularly "the division of the Roman Empire into western and eastern components" (History of Christianity). The Roman Catholic ...

The Christian Ideal of Love in "Dead Man Walking"

down, and shot them in the head. I look down at the name in horror. Do I really want to know such a man?" (Prejean, 1994). That i...

Evangelism

(Grossman, 2005). David Bebbington said that evangelical Christians exhibit four specific characteristics (reprinted exactly as i...

Historical Changes in the English Language

our purposes, its important to note that "... the Latin tongue did not replace Brittonic as the language of the general population...

What it Means to be a Christian and a Therapist

is the potential for making a bad situation even worse. The therapist must guard against that potential while still providing the...

Analysis of Jacob Boehme’s ‘True Repentance,’ George Whitefield’s ‘The Almost Christian,’ and Jonathan Edwards’ ‘The Resolutions’

divinity of God and that restoration of the original unity could be achieved only from an uncompromising faith through what Christ...

Crisis Intervention: A Biblical Perspective

where therapy can be critical. The first criteria that must be met in order to effectively counsel another individual is that the...

Shammas: "Arabesques"

We make allowances for human failing-perhaps Jane remembers it as a sunny day when it was raining-but we dont expect them to lie a...

Three Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control

its broadest definition is the study of demons from a Christian perspective (What is Christian demonology?, 2007). In this traditi...

Christian Community and St. Paul

Paul was greatly troubled by the reports of what was going on in Corinth (Berg, 2002). He addressed these issues in his first lett...

Can the Crusades be Justified?

Christian princes in Europe to go on a crusade to rescue the Holy Land from the Turks" (The Christian Crusades 1095-1291). This au...

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...

Christian Conversion and the Commentary of Saint Paul

supper, a method based on the assumption they would be open to religious answers to their predicament" (Malony, 1998). At supper, ...

Christology of Paul Johannes Tillich

biography provides insight as to the factors that led him toward his particular christological perspective. Biographical backgrou...