A social conversion towards the common good of all in our society "locally and globally, and towards harmony with mother earth and the environment is necessary. ... In dictionaries of Christian social thought, the term does not exist as a developed concept, and it is not identified as a common experience or praxis. ... How do we talk about Jesus' way of life, options, teaching, works, death and resurrection in relevant political, economic, cultural and ecological terms which make sense to us and to our society today? ... (5) How do we evoke a sense of ethical responsibility among t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Child neglect is the most common type of child abuse. 1. ... Emotional Emotional Abuse is a pattern of behavior that impairs a child's emotional development or sense of self-worth. ... Physical abuse includes but is not limited to the following: • Isolating or excluding a child • Stigmatizing a child • Withholding love, support, or guidance • Treating a child who is a victim as a suspect (repeated questioning and investigation) • Failing to provide a supportive environment • Failing to give a child an appropriate sense of self (for example, criticizing wei...

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• Grade Level: High School

External testimony assumes common authorship of the gospel and Acts, and it may be maintained that the book of Acts was accepted into the New Testament canon because of its close association with the Gospel of Luke. ... Fourth, they both have common interests. ... This proves how common these types of stories are and the significant role they play. ...

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A closely related move (and a popular one in recent theology) is to interpret resurrection in a spiritual rather than bodil y sense (if this in the end differs significantly from immortality). ... The Apostle seems to hold that human beings consist both of material bodies and immaterial souls, that the body is not merely an adornment or drape for the soul, and is indeed good, since it can be the temple of the Holy Sp irit (I Cor. 3, 16 17; 6, 19-20), and that the soul is in some sense separable from the body (II Cor. 5, 6 8; 12, 2-3). ...

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When you and I discuss how an infinite God can have a relationship with a finite human being there is always a sense of discomfort or of deep darkness. This is a common problem when Christians everywhere began to develop a relationship with the divine God. ... And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. ...

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