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Faith and Mysticism

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

Kathleen R. Fischer and Thomas N. Hart's Christian Foundations An Introduction To Faith In Our Time

relate their text to modern life. For instance, the authors discuss the fact that even though so many Americans have all of the ma...

Galatians, Faith, and Exegesis

2005). Dunn also interpreted Pauls comments to basically result in a formula: according to Judaism being within the law was equal...

Faith and Role of Mahatma Gandhi

his religion were righteous either. In the Hindu religion there has always been incredibly clear lines drawn between social cla...

Faith and its Meaning

Relatively little in terms of documentable fact, however, is known about the early history of Christianity. We look, of course, p...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Death, Religious Faith, and Resurrection

memorial prayer for the dead: "O God full of compassion, who dwell on high, grant perfect peace under the wings of the Shekhinah, ...

A Fictional Account of a Faith-Based Journey

as many people as possible. In other words, they took literally the Biblical injunction to carry the Good News throughout all the ...

Blind Faith Book Review

In a paper consisting of ten pages a criminal justice perspective is employed in this book review in which the argument that the s...

Hope and Faith in Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach

Three stories featured in Yaffa Eliach's text are discussed in six pages as each relates to the power of world restoration represe...

The Last of Cheri, The Handmaid's Tale, Beloved, and Faith

In four pages faith and its importance in these literary works and the characters featured within are discussed. There are no oth...

Faith in Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene

In six pages this paper considers how Greene's novel depicts faith's ineffability. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Allegory, Philosophy, and Faith in Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

In four pages Lewis's text is examined in terms of its religious purpose with the argument presented that the Garden of Eden serve...

Faith and Reason by Peter Abelard

In twelve pages this paper examines the religious conflict between reason and faith as considered in the works of Peter Abelard. ...

Faith in 1 & 2 Thessalonians

This essay consists of 9 pages and focuses on Paul's faith interpretation contained within these passages and also includes other ...

Religion, Ethics, and Taxes

tax fraud served to support the belief that religious leaders and people of faith are not exempt from immoral actions regarding mo...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Islam's Early Rise

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

Spiritual Experience Personal Essay

In two pages the way in which a life event resulted in losing faith is the focus of this personal essay in which the writer descri...

Overview of Going Home Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

is our home" (Hanh, 1999). He goes on, "A wave looking deeply into herself will see that she is made up of all the other waves an...

Salvation and the Old Testament

this account of Jesus ministry portrays it as a "coherent judgment comprising sin, chastisement and restoration" (Clifford and Ana...

The Baptism, Eucharist, Ministry Document

recognized in terms of what they profess to be the truth. Churches need to be in harmony with Scripture. This is also part of rec...

Christian Life/Sanctification and Epistle to the Romans

as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...

Metaphysical Spiritual Healing

Healing Historical Background Historically, Westerners have often dismissed metaphysical healing as having no validity, as being ...

Mujerista Theological Perspective

collection of religiously indoctrinated causes speaks to how entrenched gender equality is in relation to the meaning of Marys ima...

Ephesians 4:1-6

were called-(5) one Lord, one faith, one baptism; (6) one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all (Ephes...

Questions of Religion

revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...

Impact Of Edict Of Milan On Christian Liturgy

the Church and to members of the Church (NationMaster, 2008). This is an important part of the Edict because it set the stage for ...

Christian Ethics

In looking at the Bible, and better understanding ones approach, it appears as though John possesses something of a "present escha...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...