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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

of art etched into wood tablets, metal and on engraving plates. The religious overtones were highly pronounced and most of the wor...

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

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

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

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

the cities from the country regions. They would not commute. Rather, they lived in the cities so that they could attain employment...

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

events of the faith, such as God coming to earth in the form of man only once. It was also created out of love. "Although the worl...

from Christian forces, one of the first actions that they took on occupying the city was to allow Jews to reenter Jerusalem, havin...

at the other religions, we see that all three believe in the "Word of God" as a direct and personal message to Man from the Divine...

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

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

very important fact when considering the relationship between the classics and Christianity in Miltons poem by stating the followi...

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...

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

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