Religion and Theology Essays

 Clearly, the issue is not merely one of whether or not provision should be made for religious instruction, as the clergymen sponsoring the “Released Time” program are not satisfied with having the schools dismissed one hour earlier so that those who want to can proceed to religious houses for instruction.

The term Gaia is multi-faceted as well as referring to the Gaia hypothesis which is the belief that the Earth is one living organism and all of its components are unified. Although these are two completely different areas of study one could say that they are promoting the same belief that is the idea that the Earth as one, a 'Mother-Earth'.

The principle of Right Intention will allow the youth to resist the pull of desires and not crave for an excess, will prod him to be self-contained, and not get angry, full of hate or violence. This can be an asset to the youth because at this age, a lot of time could be spent in negative activities, in an environment of peer pressure

Identifying a founder of Christianity then will require one to determine with which person did the religion originate, who established it, who introduced it as an idea or movement, and who gave it its structure and organisation. As we shall see, this task is not a clear-cut one.

It becomes evident from various studies that it was necessary for Paul to introduce the hymn to guide the early Philippi church that had been facing a number of challenges ranging from ruler-worship, class divisions, and greed for civil honors. So, the hymn is valuable in the modern day church too.

He lifted his hand to heal. His heart was at peace.” (Lucado, Max, “Grace for the Moment”, 2000, J. Countryman, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, ISBN: 0-8499-5624-2, p.44). This excerpt should clearly point to the answer to the above question.

 Though these beliefs are not strongly reinforced in the family, this vision of a more wrathful God led me to pursue new explanations because my personal faith would not allow me to see a supreme being in just one light. I have always felt that my family’s viewpoint on God and religion was narrow-minded and needed a more flexible outlook.  

In turn, the individual parts can only be understood by referring to the whole. Virkler(2007) has suggested that "all meaning systems are open-ended systems of signs referring to signs referring to signs . . . no concept can therefore have an ultimate, unequivocal meaning".

There are two major interpretative approaches towards analyzing the 'Sermon of the Mount'. There is the structuralist approach that dissociates the work from the immediate socio-economic realities that produced it or to the problems of its application to the socio-economic realities of a different milieu.

The author states that they focus on the Word of God because it allows us to apply Bible passages which would be used in preaching. Another method is through allowing them to do things which they expect to do in the future such as preaching, teaching in Bible studies, and another task. The discipleship is more on theories plus application.

Nawawi is considered among the great Sufi scholar in the Islamic world. According to Nawawi concept of Sufism is about maintaining a close affiliation with God. The Sufis are individuals who have submitted their life towards God and have spent their time, money, intellect and life for maintaining a spiritual bond with the Supreme Lord.

The Just War Theory details conditions in which declaring or fighting in a war is a just and righteous action (Becker, 926). Essentially, proponents for Just Wars often oppose wars for lands, money, or greed reasons; but if the act of war can be justified, they will follow the call to arms.

Gerard Hughes in his The God of Surprises published in 1985, epitomizes the nature of God through the beautiful title. The book is a short work but the penetrating vision of the book, drawn from the pondering of the word of God in the true Jesuit tradition makes it one of the influential documents of our spiritually bankrupt times.

The earliest preachers used the Old Testament to show God's purpose in Christ, and interpreted the Christian faith as the divinely given fulfillment of the faith of Israel. If Christianity is true, the Christian interpretation of the Old Testament is the true interpretation.

Jesus was the mediator between man and God the father. (I Tim. 2:5) Jesus rescured the world thru his death (Lumen Gentium) Jesus was the Son of God. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Matt 1:20) So he was God. St. Paul said that the Godhead lived in him in fullness.

In other words, it is the respect of being and infrangibility of right a thing merits by virtue of its sacredness. Sacredness, however, implies awesome veneration, the sort of veneration deserved by what is Divine or what is connected with a deity. Consequently, since qualitativeness is by definition inherent in sanctity and sacredness- proper inviolability , respect, and veneration being of classical and qualitative human qualities- it follows that no real seeking for qualitative human existence can exclude, still less endanger, the sanctity of human life.

Bill McKibben analyzes this phenomenon in his article "The Christian Paradox. How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong". One of the things that unite the most the American people is their religion; if not in practice, at least in aspiration. According to McKibben, America is a place "saturated in Christian identity".

Conversely, if God hadn't been invented, would He have been necessary Professor Davies, a widely-acclaimed authority on Quantum Physics notes that people seek religion, not only for moral guidance, but also for answers to the fundamental questions of existence.

Antiquity had its religions. No period in human history has probably ever witnessed a boom in religions like the modern era. There has been the birth of thousands of religions in the last century, each religion vying for adepts. In an analysis of the number of adherents of the major religions of the contemporary world, the Religious Tolerance website makes allusion to David Barret et al, editors of the "World Christian Encyclopedia".

This group has advocated the re-interpretation of the Quran for greater harmony with the twenty-first century. Others, however, have argued the impossibility of interpreting the Quran, the very heart and core of Islam, in any way intended to satisfy a predetermined objective.

The word "synoptic" means "with the same eye" or "seeing together." (The Gospel of John tells the story of Jesus in significantly different ways, which can be understood in terms other than literary relationships between the Gospels) EXAMPLES. The preface to Luke's Gospel confirms that at least this writer was aware of the diversity of the tradition even in written form (whether or not these were the canonical Gospels that we now have) (Lk.

By definition, Euthanasia is the practice of deliberately ending life in order to relieve suffering and pain of a human being. It can either be voluntary or non-voluntary. Some argue that euthanasia is good death or when a physician decides to provide assistant to the patient by providing medication to gently end his life.

Scholars are hesitant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of the Buddha's life. Most accept that he lived, taught and instituted a monastic order but all is not steadily accepted in all the details. Rebirth refers to a procedure whereby beings go over a series of lifetimes as single or many probable forms of perceptive life, each consecutively from conception to death.

The first part of the sentence means that Jesus was transfigured before the three famous apostles named Peter, James and John. These apostles were there with the Jesus Christ on the mountain when the process of transfiguration took place as explained in the other bibles.

The Shakuntala is generally taken to be the finest example of a rasa drama in Classical Sanskrit literature. Here the relation of plot-structure to rasa is explored, and an attempt is made to show that the Indian theory of plot, often overlooked or regarded as a mechanical formula, is a carefully crafted complement to the rasa theory, of great help in the interpretation of dramatic works.

Since the victory of what would become the orthodox Catholic Church over the so-called heretics and the successful eradication of most of the so-called heretical texts, Christianity has been for the most part unified in its vision. That claim may seem groundless in view of the multitudes of denominational differences and the enormous upheaval that took place after the Reformation, but in fact denominations as varied as Lutherans, Baptists and Mormons all agree on the basic tenets of the original Catholic canonical texts.

With the foundation of Hinduism laid in Brahmanism, the Hindu religion was strong enough to continue developing and endure throughout the millenniums. Hindus have developed six “Schools of Thought.” These six schools include Purva Mimamsa, Yoga, Uttara Mimamsa, Pure Monism, Qualified Monism and Dualism.

This researcher believes that there is an urgent need for research that highlights the positive aspects of the social behavior of today’s generation of African-Americans. It is hoped that such an investigation of an important and growing sector of contemporary American society would contribute to the knowledge of African-American culture.

The young Inigo who was the youngest of the thirteen children of the Loyola household was into gambling and riots together with his brother and some relatives. Apparently, Inigo was acquitted from the troubles that he encountered in his early life because of the influence of the Loyolas in the society (O'Neal).

The Nicene Creed is the one that declares the church to be; One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. The four marks are inseparable and are linked to each other as qualities of Christ’s church. The Lord himself, in founding the Church marked it with this distinctiveness, which reflects the vital features and work of the Church of Christ.

They act as a source of accurate and believable information that everyone with doubts needs. The Catholic Mass, for instance, is indeed all Jesus and all Biblical. Believably, the Mass serves as the most common and simplest Biblical way of worshiping God.

In both the mythologies it was the male who first created. Adam and Ra were both representatives of the male. In both cases, there is the event of sibling murder. In Egyptian mythology, Set killed his brother Osiris while in the Genesis Cain killed his brother and in both cases the reason was jealousy.

An Exegesis of Luke 7:36-50 The story documented in Luke 7:36-8:3 is arguably one of the commonest gospel stories today. Maybe the popularity of the story could be based on the fact that the story is recorded by all the four gospels.1 However, the fact that this story depicts the son of God as one that accepts worship from even the sinful people could be another contributing factor to its widespread popularity.

There were some changes after Jesus’ ascension. It was time when events of his life were communicated verbally among the disciples. Jesus practiced the Aramaic language with his apostles, and he was much concerned about Hebrew and Greek. Paul was unaware of Jesus' life and he did not know about the facts from the life of Jesus at all.

Christian theologians are divided in answering this question. The issue of the fate of the unevangelized is, actually, one of the most controversial issues among the Christians scholars1. This issue is closely related with the issue of divine election/predestination.

The Cycladic art is divided into three periods in which it developed to be an attractive and fine art globally. The first period is traced at around 2800 to 2500 BCE, followed by 2500 to 2200 BCE and lastly, 2200 to 200 BCE. Every period was well-presented in this essay, the researcher also discussed the art pieces, that were found recently.

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Why Science and Theologians Should Work Together Introduction Science refers to a logical enterprise that establishes and systematizes knowledge in a variety of testable justifications and forecasts about the world (Hairston 1).

After the analysis, we then compare whether the fundamental tenets of democracy and the Islamic political thought are reconcilable or not, and to what extent can they be reconciled if any. This paper, therefore, evaluates and analysis the meaning of democracy and the Islamic political thought and draws comparisons between the tenets of these two different political systems.

Human nature is such that it always refuses to learn from the past mistakes that it had committed. Since the discovery of America, the orientation of the nation towards a Christianity culture is irrefutable. As syncretism came into the picture, it left legacies that have changed the mindset of people radically.

The books that follow the Deuteronomy criteria are therefore most likely to originate from a common source. Saul, Solomon and David are introduced in the Deuteronomic history; the monarchy is shown to be blasphemous, corrupt and always casting misfortunes on the people.

Louis says that his family wanted to leave their home in Vietnam because of Communism. They felt that there would be less opportunity for the next generations because of this political system. They were afraid that they would loose all of their property and possessions and that their children would be very poor under Communism.

This paper also involves identifying the main purpose for this authorship, main issue the author addresses, and the evidence he presents to support his arguments, the assumptions that underlie the authors thinking. The author’s main purpose is to provide a sermon basing on biblical explanation why the church should not be involved in political activities.

Apart from the widely-practiced Abrahamic religions, there are many forms of paganisms prevalent around the world. The term paganism is used to describe all the religious practices that are polytheistic and associate nature with divinity. Paganism is one of the fastest growing practices around the world especially in the United States and Africa; however it is difficult to obtain exact figures as many of its followers are either sole practitioners or do not believe in preaching their religion (Higginbotham 1-2).

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This paper will summarize the basic beliefs of Christianity, and some of its variation; identify Christianity in practice; identify their prophets and their stance on prophesy; describe the Bible and its various forms, as well as major supplementary scripture used by specific branches of Christianity; describe Christian rituals; and look at some of Christianity’s current developments.

Sometimes death seems like a very cruel and harsh reality; especially when it is perceived to have come before time. What mortals we humans are; working all our lives to reach our ultimate goal: death. It is always looming somewhere in the distance just out of sight.

The Sunnah or interpretation of the Qur’an by the prophet Muhammad is a perfect opportunity to penetrate into religious depth of Islam. From the beginning, Islam set out to build a society. Both common practices and common ideals are relevant to the modern society.

According to Boff traditional Christianity is the enemy of true Christianity, as perceived from the point of view of the liberation movement. Faith shouldn't be used as the tool to exploit the psyche of the gullible. The common people often believe in miracles, and the traditional preachers use faith to further their vested interests.

Several religions exist depending on how an individual is swayed by different religious principles. Common religions include Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jewish religion.3 Differences between these religions exist in various religious aspects.

It has been the tradition of all churches that Gospel’s reading is performed while standing, though the homily related to the Bible is exercised in sitting position. It not only affirms the role of the Gospel as the most sacred part of the Scripture but validates the very point that Jesus’ account should always be made in a most respectful manner.