The key for this academic understanding, at least from a Catholic point of view, is through Christian interreligious dialogue and the Catholic Theology of Religion. ... I can speak from personal experience that after 12 years of Catholic teachings in primary and high school and even physically visiting and studying in the Vatican, that I continue to struggle with the topic of studying merely Catholicism. ... The Theology of Religion aims to look through the ideals and beliefs of other religions for implications of Christian relevance and to give concrete Christian definition to those character...

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Jerome Augustine, lived in modern day Algeria, was a philosopher of Neoplatonism and early Christian theologies. ... Augustine moved on from Manicheism to Neoplatonism and after entering the school of Plotinus, he began to believe that everything in one's life involves God, and things are unable to exist without Him. ... As the shift from cults to religion started to take place, a lot of heat towards the flourishing Christian faith broke out. Because the Christians were peaceful and open to everyone, they appealed to the vast majority of people, not just the poor. ... Emperor Constantine ...

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Until 1962, state-mandated prayers in school were considered legal and just. ... However, Americans against prayer in schools have a completely different opinion of the situation. ... They believe this could cause potential harassment and school violence to increase. ... The first four commandments refer theologically to the Christian and Jewish religions. Thus, non-Judeo-Christians may possibly be offended by the presence of the Commandments. ...

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What really caused a spike in this campaign was the routine prayer and religious statues in public school classrooms. After multiple law suits against the school board, the case finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court and prayer was banned from public schools "much to Christians' displeasure. Around this time the evangelicals Jerry Falwell and Ed Dobson preached to convince Christians they had a higher calling than to protest in the Civil Rights Movement. ... In 2006 Obama addresses, "Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Musli...

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Over 70 percent of the Australian population is Christian and the most popular branches of Christianity are Catholicism and Anglican. ... On 3 February 1788 he conducted the first Christian service in Australia under a gum tree. With his wife, Mary he administered to 1,100 convicts, soldiers and settlers of several religions and many denominations of Christianity, financed the first church building completed in 1793 and established the colony's first school near Circular Quay. ... For instance, it is rarely for a Christian follower to go to Church on every Sunday week. ... Instead of go...

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In the second-century, the Christian Church strained for identity while being persecuted by the Roman authorities, confronted by Jewish and pagan hostility, and challenged by the internal dilemma of Gnostic adaptation. ... Colossians, a letter addressed to Christians of the ancient city of Colossae, anticipated the second-century conflict between the church and Gnostics, and is fundamentally concerned with alerting the Christians against an erroneous religious teaching which stressed knowledge rather than faith. I Timothy largely focuses upon organization, doctrine, and Christian behavior, but...

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Although factors such as geography, generation, culture and history have produced a wide variety of schools of thought, the aspects in which thinkers immersed themselves into have been relatively similar. ... Because his philosophy was much easier to "Christianize," it seems reasonable to think that Platonism was more warmly adopted compared to Lucretius" non-teleological view of the universe. ...

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