In the early American phase of the Great Awakening, signs of this new age of thinking appeared among Presbyterians in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. ... This religious enthusiasm quickly spread from the Middle Colonies to the New England colonies. ... The early revivals in the Northern colonies inspired convents to become missionaries in the Southern colonies. ...
The above passage describes one aspect of Minjung Theology: interpreting the bible through its historical narrative and relating that narrative to the present age. ... In an attempt to seek a middle ground, this work begins the historical analysis of Minjung Theology at the time of the Japanese colonial period when eschatological concepts about the apocalypse and the second coming became very appealing to a hopeless people under the oppression of foreign occupiers. ... These four periods are birth, growth, trial and completion (corresponding to childhood, adolescence, maturity and old age o...
Judaism originated in the Middle East, but Jewish communities have existed at one time or another in almost all parts of the world, a result of both voluntary migrations and forced exile or expulsions. ... Muhammad began his ministry at the age of 40, when, he claimed, the archangel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision. ... Muslims believe that Muhammad was the final prophet and that the Koran is the final and most nearly perfect revelation of God, consummating and superseding all earlier revelations. ...
As mentioned earlier, The United States is a highly religious country. ... Like any person through the course of their life, Jefferson's personal opinions on religion changed as he aged, but "through all the changes in the evolution of Jefferson's faith, there was at least one point of consistency, a devotion to the ideal of religious liberty."15 Jefferson's conceptualization of God leaned more towards a Natural philosophy with a Christian background. ...
