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Transcendence, Religion, and the Superman Theory of Friedrich Nietzsche

benevolent and living God who is infinite in a myriad of ways. Because God is deemed to be dead, Nietzsche sees it necessary fo...

Christianity and the Wrong Views of Friedrich Nietzsche

by those in a particular sect of Christianity, there would be more purity in the Christian religions. Yet, this is not the case an...

Life After Death in Hindu and Christian Beliefs

we think of as ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick t...

Human Cloning and Virtue Ethics

Kantian ethical system as an impartial viewpoint: however, when one considers virtue ethics, it is evident that these come from ev...

Christianity and Worldview

the way for a great number of other inventors to follow, as well as establishing a changing trend in the way the world viewed tech...

'On Being Brought from Africa to America' by Phyllis Wheatley

arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...

Modern World and Christianity

eighteenth centuries was the formulation of the additions to the doctrine of the apostles in modern times (Marty, 1959). The first...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

Life, Salvation, and Religion

It can be said that his treatises on this subject had great influence on the study of redemption in later years, or in the vernacu...

Old Testament's Historical Canon Development

time on earth (Core, 2000). The early Christians debated at great length regarding the books that would be accepted as Old Testame...

Overview of Hinduism and Christianity

This essay presents a discussion of specific traditions and beliefs relevant to the Hinduism and Christianity. Seven pages in leng...

Christianizing the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen

This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...

Phyllis Tickle's Recent Book on Christianity

Tickle writes that there is an upheaval in Christianity about every 500 years and we are going through one now. It is called the G...

Christianity and Greek Philosophy

The document suggests that there is the notion that Greek philosophy is in opposition to Christianity. Many call Greek doctrines h...

Chapter 3, Gonzalez, The Early Church

of his text The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. Justin Gonzalez discusses "The C...

Chapter 4 in Gonzalez's The Early Church

Mission In this chapter, Justin Gonzalez elaborates further on the history of the early Christian church, as recorded in Acts, re...

Chapter 5, Gonzalez, The Early Church

5, "First Conflicts with the State," begins by pointing out that early Christianity had a violent beginning.i The first section ex...

Chapter 6, Gonzalez, The Early Church,

Pliny and Trajan This is the first section of chapter 6, "Persecution in the Second Century," and it deals with the actions of Pl...

Chapter 7, Gonzalez, The Early Church

Lofty Criticism As mentioned in the previous chapter, due to the Roman policy towards Christianity throughout the second century ...

Chapter 8, Gonzalez, The Early Church

this chapter is on describing the variety of backgrounds and experience that informed early interpretations of the gospel message....

Chapter 9, Gonzalez, The Early Church

chapter by explaining that the writings of the apologists were all in response to specific topics, such as issues dealing with per...

Chapter 11, Gonzalez, The Early Church

of Early Christians Gonzalez begins this chapter by pointing out that surviving documents by the leaders of the church or those d...

Chapter 12, Gonzalez, The Early Church

Gonzalezs text, "The Great Persecution and the Final Victory," focuses on Christian persecution under Diocletian, which is charact...

The Early Church, Part 2: The Imperial Church, Gonzalez

Constantine, Chapter 13 From Rome to Constantinople: This section describes the rule of Constantine from his initial victory and ...

The Early Church, Part 3: Medieval Christianity/Gonzalez

New Order, Chapter 26 The Barbarian Kingdoms: Gonzalez points out that while, the Roman perspective was that the invaders were si...

The Story of Christianity, Vol. II, Chapter 1 by Justo Gonzalez

1: The Call for Reformation Justo L. Gonzalez begins chapter 1 of his text on Christian history, The Reformation to the Present D...

The Story of Christianity, Vol. II, Chapter 2 by Justo Gonzalez

Chapter 2: Martin Luther: Pilgrimage to Reformation Martin Luther Justo Gonzalez begins his discussion of Luther by describing ho...

The Story of Christianity, Vol. II, Chapter 3 by Justo Gonzalez

Chapter 3: Luthers Theology The Word of God In this chapter, Gonzalez picks up Luthers story in 1521, which is when he appeared b...

The Story of Christianity, Vol. II, Chapter 5 by Justo Gonzalez

5: Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation Zwinglis Pilgrimage Nationalism and humanism both contributed to the Lutheran reforma...

The Story of Christianity, Vol. II, Chapter 6 by Justo Gonzalez

Chapter 6: The Anabaptist Movement The First Anabaptists In this chapter, Gonzalez addresses the criticisms that were leveled at ...