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Essays 271 - 300
that he did - when the masses desperately needed a "human" religion to cling to - was something that helped boost Jesus to "divine...
accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...
the Mediterranean. Haarmann asserts that Marian devotion continues "the ancient goddess cults, and, thus, is a reflection of thei...
This paper examines the pertinent literature and ongoing controversy surrounding Mary, mother of Jesus, as well as her role in the...
comprehend Jesus lessons, i.e. his parables, better when they consider them in the context of "drohrede," a literary genre centra...
of it that easily. This is remedied by the fact that she is given a very difficult choice to make. Does she want to be black, or...
Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...
As such, attempting to interpret knowledge, language and meaning is to draw from the innermost recesses of ones existence. Hermen...
salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...
in order to give an accurate chronology of Jesus ministry, but rather to reveal who Jesus character --who he was (and "is" in the ...
Jesus Christ to the world (UCC, 2007, p. 7). Through baptism, each person is called to some personal expression of ministry, as in...
such as the dietary laws and male circumcision. One of the many issues that Paul discussed in Galatians is the fact that he is g...
some would believe that Mary and Jesus were married and Jesus traveled to a small village in France carrying Christs child (Jennin...
be dealt with again at the second council in Ephesus and again at Chalcedon (Christianity in Egypt 1997). This eventually led to w...
This paper contrasts and compares the perspectives of 'the other' as conceptualized by Christianity and Judaism. Five sources are...
This paper consists of eight pages and presents an overview of the Jesuit order in a consideration of its faith, what it teaches, ...
is our home" (Hanh, 1999). He goes on, "A wave looking deeply into herself will see that she is made up of all the other waves an...
As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...
including "Aaron and his successors" and "Moses and the Prophets" (Maas). Paul pictures Christ as being above the choirs of angels...
the lost goddess" (Brown, 2003, p. 238). Langdon goes on to say: "Knights claimed to be "searching for the chalice" were speaking ...
Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). At age 30, Jesus began His ministry. He g...
simple reason that it brings Jesus to todays society without extreme dogma and doctrine. However, what may be considered strength ...
and that the intervention of priests between the faithful and God was a necessary component of worship. Nevertheless, there is sti...
In seven pages this paper attempts to determine the religious mythos' origins by examining these religious leaders in terms of the...
reason in this day and age that people should be condemned to a life of poverty when they display even a modicum of desire to surv...
churches, though many were convened in his name. Most of the accounts of Jesus in the Bible talk about large crowds of people that...
In six pages this paper is structured in terms of interviewing these authors in a hypothetical Q&A format with the texts Child...
This five page paper discusses the Corinthians along with the gospels to evaluate which version is more accurate. The writer of th...