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

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...

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....

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

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...

This essay draws upon three writings from the second century to discuss the way in which Roman authorities perceived Christianity ...

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

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

Christianity expanded and grew exponentially in the early centuries. There were many reasons for this quick growth including its m...

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...

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

leader of the group told him that was not based on love but on rewards form God. He left the group. He made the leap to Christiani...

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

ethically necessary to offer the right of sanctuary to individuals who are fleeing political oppression (Voice of America, 2009). ...

newly unchanging societal conditions, and passing this culture down to their children, who largely lived in the same geographical ...

covenant between God and humanity, a covenant that was the fulfillment of prophecy but also one that included all of humanity. T...

most ancient religions. Monotheistic, Jews believe that creation is the work of a "single, all-knowing divinity" and that everythi...

(Robinson, 2011). These are all elements within each religion. At the same time the textual elements are often interpreted by va...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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