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Ibo Society and Lost Male Status Following the White Missionary Arrival

head position was responsible for "settling family disputes, and because he controlled the channel of communication with the all-i...

'Jerusalem Delivered' by Torquato Tasso

the aid of Fortune herself as a guide, travel to the Fortunate Islands. There, they scale a mountain, fighting a dragon and a lion...

Black Studies and America's Cultural Assumptions

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

Power in the Pulpit How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons by Cleophus James Larue

illustrate the points they make. Larue himself is a preacher and scholar who is an associate professor of homiletics at Princeton ...

Fairytales and Their Importance

is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and its Christian Content

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

Research Study Proposal on Christian Parenting

Ostensibly, the Pardoner is a man of God. However, in the prologue to his tale, the Pardoner goes to great pains to elucidate his ...

Elders According to Doctrine of Ecclesiology

the Bible is "overseer," the implication is that the verse is referring to a position of leadership in which the individual is res...

John Winthrop and William Bradford on Character Qualities

is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...

Writings of 5 Founding Fathers of Early Christian Theology

the standards of Christian piety that were expected. From reading the Didache, the modern Christian can begin to see how the lab...

Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

Christian Worship and the Sacraments

By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Christianity

the Christian and the truth regarding Christians as they hide behind the name of religion itself. Another excerpt occurs wherei...

Christian Creeds, Confessions of Faith, Councils and Their Historical Significance

(Constitution, Apostles, 1996). The creed derived its name from the initial belief that it was written by the Apostles on the tent...

Christianity History and Significance of 'Church Order'

holding certain truths? The members of the Church are united, not by their belief in certain men, but by their belief in certain ...

Secular and Christian Relationship

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

Jesus in the Qua-ran and in the Bible

is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...

The Prophetess by Njabulo Ndebele, Light and Darkness Images

encompassed in darkness. Ndebele uses phrases and words such as the following: He was anxious about where the woman was...

Christian Theology, Family, and Marriage

covenant of irrevocable personal consent" and that procreation was not the sole purpose or the basis for the union (Lawler, 2001, ...

Mixture of Christianity and Paganism in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

student researching this topic has indicated that no additional sources should be used. In writing your own paper, drawing upon th...

Christian Church and Capital Punishment

the topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...

Macbeth and Christian Symbolism

people who dabbled in witchcraft were conspiring with "the Devil" (Fripp 646). According to St. Paul, "And then shall that wicke...

Christ Figure Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...

Valentinus and Christian Gnosticism

"claimed to have been instructed by a direct disciple of one of Jesus apostles, an apostolic man by the name of Theodas. Tertullia...

NonWestern Religions and Their Completeness

actual word, religion, comes from literally means bound to(Larue 2004). Thus, a person is dedicated toward living a certain way, b...

Was Martin Luther a Revolutionary or Reformer?

but others merely put forward objections for discussion. Copies of Luthers document spread throughout Europe during 1518 and 151...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Dan Quayle Article Critique

popular as a lifestyle choice amongst Americans. He refers specifically to these changes as being "dysfunctional", rather than as ...

Christ's and God's Images

reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...

The Influence of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo

still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...