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Essays 541 - 570
Christianity expanded and grew exponentially in the early centuries. There were many reasons for this quick growth including its m...
This essay offers summaries and comparisons between the autobiographical narratives of African American nineteenth century preache...
The entitled issue and 24 other issues are discussed in this essay. The issues are related to theology including fundamental theol...
interview is presumed to be with a fundamentalist Christian from the 1930s. 1. What are the origins of fundamentalist American Ch...
have had too much wine" (Acts 2:13). Peter addresses the crowd, pointing out that the men are sober and relating this mira...
(Net Bible). This choice is due to the interpretation that, in this context, these statements describe the beginning of various pr...
Trinity was revealed throughout Scripture. He is an integral part of everything that was done and said. It is through the Spirits ...
While there are some basic similarities between Christianity and Islam, there are also many differences. Both religions have...
historical Jesus is based on two recognitions. The first is that the Jewish Jesus from Galilee is different than the Jesus who has...
part of the belief system. This was also combined with the nations general "rejection of Judeo-Christian morality" (Glover, 2001, ...
Religion can be one of the biggest defining factors in culture. Some religions are radically different than others even in...
Rood indicates he was "taken from my stump, strong foes seized me there". Just as the poem casts Christ in a militaristic warrior ...
worth in the final reckoning (2250-2252). The fatalistic nature of the passage is emphasized by the use of language evoking imager...
fathers of the Church, Saint John Chrysostoms writings had a uniquely formative impact upon the development of church doctrine and...
as Luther, have been wary of the virtues, regarding the quest for virtue as a path that can lead to self-righteousness, which is "...
is a biblical scholar and the other is a Christian ethicist, and they bring together their individual competencies to offer a comp...
that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...
popular as a lifestyle choice amongst Americans. He refers specifically to these changes as being "dysfunctional", rather than as ...
reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...
he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
their complex social and cultural mores. Tradition was therefore rooted in the memory of the people as was the physical and moral...
of worship. Canticles are a part of todays liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church" and "The first written chants were associated wit...
40 % (2004, p.12) of Internet users in general claim that they have either sent or received e-mail messages that have spiritual ...
warm and light the new creation (Awolalu, 1996). Obatala then made human figures from dirt, human figures that were varied and co...
of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...
When we accept His will, we know that we are responsible for our own actions so it begins with a desire for good, to do the right ...
always been a problematic issue. To begin with, context is absolutely critical when one attempts to interpret a passage from the B...
most trusted advisers and he penned the Opus Caroli, which stated the position of the Carolingian court on the issue of whether or...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...