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'Image of God' and Humanity Implications

of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...

Contemporary Religion of Japan

the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...

Christianity and Buddhism

other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...

Secular and Christian Relationship

this might be. What is most astonishing is that in the past those Christian states did not provide the best of possible climates f...

Christianity Expansion

points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...

Christian Creeds, Confessions of Faith, Councils and Their Historical Significance

(Constitution, Apostles, 1996). The creed derived its name from the initial belief that it was written by the Apostles on the tent...

The Bible And The Koran - Christianity And Islam

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

Machiavelli's Place in Medieval Society

of the day. There were Kings and Christians and those who were attached to Enlightenment ideals. In essence, Machiavellis world wa...

Religious Fundamentalism and its Dangers

first arose, "on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become cor...

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...

India, Social Change, and Eucharist

Soares Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even...

Christianity Models

the universal models there are ideas of the way that good will reveal the good news, before death or after death at either immedia...

Religious Importance of Jerusalem

And finally, can the nature of Jerusalem as a "sacred space" for all three faiths "throw any light on the conduct of politicians a...

Significance of Religion and Geography in the Middle East

the local political process (Ceasar, 2005). The Dawa party which is religious based was the top winner in that election (Ceasar, ...

Christ's Teachings and the support of Gregory of Nyssa

a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...

Concept of Spirituality

from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...

Paul's Authority in Galatians

in Galatia." After his salutation, Paul goes right to the heart of the matter, which is that the people have been thrown into conf...

Early Christian Theology and Jesus

However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...

Religions of Asia

over the centuries, and in those changes we can see the way in which the teachings of the religion have turned outward to impact t...

Conflict and 3 Abrahamic Religions

basis of the religion (Esposito, 1978). This began his quest for a true religion. Muhammad believed that both Judaism and Christi...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Religion

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

Same Sex Marriages and Religion

the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Parallels in the Christian Verses the Islamic Views of Human Nature

obvious, even if one had not heard the laws of God as such, this ignorance has never constituted an excuse for sin. As this indica...

Government and Christianity

became less sure of their eternal salvation (Council, 2004). Thus, the tenuous relationship between government and Christianity m...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

Middle East, Democracy, and Islam

In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...

Triangular Relationship Between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom

existed a triangular relationship between Islam and Eastern and Western Christendom. The Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) was exempla...

Messiah Jesus Christ and Christology

including "Aaron and his successors" and "Moses and the Prophets" (Maas). Paul pictures Christ as being above the choirs of angels...

Christianity and the Influence of Plato

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...