Perhaps religion should become of the same status as the aforementioned aspects, but regardless of the majority beliefs, I personally feel it already is my own most important characteristic. ... My goal is that through reading this, you will gain understanding of basic beliefs, but more importantly gain an understanding of difficulties faced due to faith practices within a different culture than our own. ... My heart goes out to those attempting to worship in China, while having to do so in private. ... Chao Shengjie is now the president of the China Christian Council, but soon after her inaug...

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The above questions became important to me as I began my graduate studies in clinical psychology almost 15 years ago at Wheaton (and remain to this day) and continue as I have pursued formal theological education (MDiv) from Liberty. ... But this is not an exhaustive study due to space limitations (e.g., the doctrine of sanctification is not covered in this paper). ... Gertsner (1982) states, "My choices, as rational person, are always based on various considerations or motives that are before me at the time. Those motives have a certain weight with me, and the motives for or against doing ...

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As noted above, my aim here is rather to explore and defend a third way of understanding the traditional C hristian notion of resurrection, a theory virtually all (but not quite all) of the church Fathers who discussed resurrection held in one form or another.' ...

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