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Historical Jesus And Christ Of Faith

one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Christopher Hitchens: “God is Not Great”

it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...

Models Of The Church, Chapter 11 The Church And Revelation

about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...

Why Monotheism is Not Rational

theories of evaluating this today, such as the Big Bang. That is, there may be a world that has come about, and a cause, but the c...

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...

Book Report on J.I. Packer’s Knowing God

as a necessity of life as food, water, and comfort. The people who make no effort to know God cannot understand the world in whic...

The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong

complex or larger than many families. In this basic setting one can see how the family is affected by the power of the nation an...

God in the Desert

forests and other vegetation; the teeming mass of life suggests that there is more than one god present. (This analysis of course ...

The Religious Orientation of the Deir el-Madina Villagers

It appears that the village had a relatively high level of it received compared to the rest of Egypt, possibly in excess of 50% co...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

Philosophical Critique of Iris Marion Young’s Concept of the Distinction Between Self-Development and Self-Determination

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

In The Image Of God

states that the anthropomorphites commit a grave error because Jesus Himself said that God is a spirit and mans body cannot possib...

Anatole France: “The Gods Will Have Blood”

finally suspended the rule of law leading to the massacre of the aristocracy; it was class warfare at its ugliest. In a sense, one...

Connolly, Hall and Philosophical Differences

asks whether pluralism "is a philosophy for wimps," that is, "for those whose beliefs are too saturated with uncertain and ambival...

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...

Maximus In Catland: Philosophical Messages For Parents And Children Alike

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

The Intervention of the Gods and Goddesses

talking about Ulysses and his struggles to get home after the Trojan War: "So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck ...

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...

Microhistory Europe Early 16th Century

1584. Menocchio declared: "in my opinion, all was chaos... and out of that bulk a mass formed - just as cheese is made out of milk...

Survival: Roy and Coetzee

other and as such their need to survive was often driven by their separation. Another example of survival can be seen in the rel...

Pastoral Ministry - Case Study

Claire persisted - "But God will end good people to hell?" The Pastor also commented that since he did not know what was in the ma...

The Hero’s Journey: Moses and Jesus

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

Hinduism

to merge . This would seem to be a level in ones spiritual development, in fact, it would be the final level on earth since Nirvan...

Liberal Christianity

only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...

Suffering in Job and in the Death Camps

who did lie, steal, betray friends, perhaps even murder to save themselves then were left with another truth: the survivors who ca...

Philosophical Perspectives on Personal Identity

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

The Immorality of Gay Marriage

observation as well noting that this prohibition is a substantive one just as was women being kept out of certain occupations in o...