SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Protestant and Catholic Reformation

Essays 151 - 180

Augustine’s Confessions

grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...

Mediator Dei

by an official of the Church and attended by faithful members of the church. Although the Popes encyclical clarified the sacred ...

Christology of Matthew Fox

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...

Biblical Inspiration

question to explore is-How? The first factor in his equation is the widely popular notion that God acts in human history. If God...

Jesus as Exorcist

"unclean spirits knew who Jesus was" (Davies 94). Jesus method of exorcism was to "cast out demons by the spirit of God" (Davies 9...

Galileo and Why He Should Have Been Excommunicated

all involvement with Copernicanism and to stop teaching and talking about this approach (ChristianAnswers.net). The fact that he d...

The Eventual Decline of Latin as a Spoken Language

hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Prejudice Against Catholics in Television and Film

of priests are true servants of God and their parishioners but, as is always typical with the media, sensationalism sells. Therefo...

Catholic Italian Culture

of all immigrants. Borrowing from their special talent with food, Italians grace the country with their wonderful cuisine and jov...

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...

C.S. Lewis and Catholic Morality Instruction

of difficulty taking a strong stand on what is right and wrong. Kilpatrick addressed this issue: if the adults in the childs life ...

Comparison Between Catholic and Mormon Interpretations of Christianity

will proclaim their "Christian" beliefs but such beliefs often do not square with the traditional Christian ideologies of either t...

Priesthood and Celibacy

a mandate for priests (McGovern, 2003). We also know that married priests were common because St. Paul told Titus and Timothy that...

Roman Catholic Church and Process of Canonization

in a huge portfolio (Lim and Lau, n.d). The inquiring process is next and there are three kinds of inquiry processes: 1. Informa...

Characteristics of Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church

was doing the exact opposite of what was being promoted; they were doing what people said would turn kids off of religion and yet,...

3 Religious Issues

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

Health Coverage and Catholic Women

the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not...

Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Spanish Conquest

In eleven pages this paper discusses the role the Catholic Church played in the Spanish Conquest of this period. Six sources are ...

Roman Catholic Teachings and Suicide

in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable" (The Vatican n.d.). Father Sau...

Roman Catholic Church and Gay Marriage

said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...

Catholic Social Teaching, Solidarity, and Corporations

corporations are larger and have far more fiscal resources than some countries. We also know that multinational corporations can e...

Sick and Dying Catholic Ministering

in the world (McClory 2002). The Cardinal had lost his battle with cancer and he was ready to let go (McClory 2002). Letting go a...

A History of the Tabernacle and Catholic Pulpit

the first Christians inherited their forms of worship from Judaism, that is, from the temple and the synagogue (Bieler 12). Howeve...

Intermarriage Between Christians and Jews

fifty years (Sander 27). However, other sources indicate that the rate of intermarriage is on the rise. The 2000 National Jewish P...

Catholic Social Instruction and the Value of Family and Marriage

social structure. His prediction of severely negative consequences directly related to artificial contraception shed light upon t...

History and Introduction of the Early Catholic Church

Pauline Christianity, which was developing at that time. Eusebius of Caesarea--Eusebius (263-339) studied under Pamphilius, a Ch...

Overview of the Catholic Belief System

time of the Reformation, which dictates that the Bible alone offers teachings that are valid (Madrid, 2005). Catholics reject this...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

3 Issues Pertaining to Latin American Society

In six pages this research paper discusses women's roles in Latin America and the economic effects, the Catholic Church throughout...