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weighing over 2.5 tons, this structure covers over 13 acres and so carefully surveyed so accurately that it aligns perfectly with...

analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

understand the draw to the marginalized groups such as the converted Jews, but to see the evidence which supported the recruit of ...

that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...

discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...

The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...

not accomplish this task until the end of time (Stepaniants, 2002). According to Zoroastrian cosmology, the history of humanity co...

War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...

in government policy-making, for example....

ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...

date). In order to fit into the economic Western world, many Jews have forsaken their heritage and do not rigidly practice the t...

but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...

will proclaim their "Christian" beliefs but such beliefs often do not square with the traditional Christian ideologies of either t...

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

the way it was lived" (BBC World Service, 2003). If an individual has lived a bad life, refusing to accept Jesus as Savior and God...

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...

was born on a certain night that many glean as magical or mystical and it is presumed that this boy grows up to become the Savior ...

where "The hand of the Lord prevailed and the forces of Maxentius were routed (Lactantius 8). Maxentius was driven into the Tiber ...

personal liberation through approaching everything in life as it relates to what Allah wants, not what the individual wants. There...

she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...

eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...

and was replaced by Claudius (41-54), the emperor whose forces conquered Britain. Nero followed him and when he was overthrown, Ro...

By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...

laborer such as a farmer, a tradesman or one in the military3. Like in any other profession, in order to obtain his goal, a monk m...

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

evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...

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