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God's Doctrine as Interpreted by Gordon Kaufman, Pamela Young, and Sallie McFague

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

Modern World Strategies and Religion

They believe that there is only one acceptable religion and that is theirs. Things are beginning to change in modern society, how...

Christianity and Evolution Compatibility

To understand however how different Christian groups understand evolution, it is important to understand the two different formula...

Judaism, Christianity, Religious Misinterpretation, and Environmental Problems

into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...

Christianity, the Early Roman Perception

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

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...

Buddhism and the Bahai Religion

In eleven pages the Buddhist and Bahai religions are contrasted and compared with the commonality represented by Christianity also...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Notes

In four pages this paper examines Douglass' narrative in terms of impressing upon white readers his situation as a slave in the So...

Ukraine and Religion

In five pages this paper examines the Ukraine in a consideration of its religious history from paganism to Christianity. Five sou...

Christianity and Marital Submission

Submissiveness as described in Ephesians 5, verses 21 through 23 is the focus of this consideration consisting of fifteen pages of...

Analysis of Confessions by Saint Augustine

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this work s it relates to Christianity and contemporary life. Four other sources...

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...

Theoretical Approaches to Capitalism and Power

The ideas of three theorists are explored in this 3 part paper. The first part of the paper explores the rise of capitalism, and ...

Christianity in the First and Second Centuries

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

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...

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...