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in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...

afterlife, gods and worship, adventure and achievement, and legacy. The gender roles and children depicted in The Epic of Gilgame...

East Asia (Fiero, DATE). This religion provided "spiritual unity and cultural cohesiveness to people of a wide variety of language...

arranges marriages, though she also comes from a culture that, according to Indian standards, "Kerala is well known for its relati...

"probably influence a greater number of important decisions than do statistical projects, opinion polls, consultants reports or ev...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...

established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

of England. If something that catastrophic were to happen today, would the Prime Minister respond to save the church? One can onl...

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

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

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

literary critics, philosophers, and even theologians have questioned and considered for centuries. That Which Cannot be Known A...

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...

God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...

needs of the spirit, which were outlined through divine law (Pierce, 2002). The law of nature, Epictetus believed, was that the be...

natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine maje...

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...