1. early Christianity
My brothers and sisters, our society today has become corrupted by the lack of people attending church. People have started to question us and trying to present to us with liberal heathen ideas. They believe that the religion is no longer important. Our ancestors would be turning over in their grave...
The Christian Bible is made up of an Old and a New Testament. While followers of Christianity wrote the New Testament, the Jews wrote the Old Testament, which they called the Hebrew Bible. Even though Christians did not get along with Jews, and did not conform to all their beliefs, Christians did ...
Satanism Satanism is basically the worshipping of Satan or Chaos. Satanism has like Christianity a bible and churches. Also Satanism has certain rituals. Satanism has two parts to it. One of them is pure Satanism and another one is Anti-Christianity. Pure Satanism is the pure worship of Satan. ...
The Puritan belief found its roots from the Holy Reformation and the Protestant movement. It was said with implacable logic that God, all-knowing and all-powerful, had already determined who would be saved: predestination; this belief undermines totally the concept of free will. Nobody knew who wo...
Religion in Literature Religion and literature have been closely related to each other as far back as one of the oldest existing poems in the English language, Beowulf. This epic poem certainly comes from a Christianized culture, yet never names either the pagan gods or Jesus. The Beowulf poet h...
My Outlook of Religion In our culture today we live in a society that has shifted its focus to career, money, and personal gain. We have lost much relative to our belief in Jesus Christ and his message. The scientific and technological advances in medicine have lessoned the impact that the mess...
Abraham, a Role Model for Many People In most cases, people have difficulties agreeing on the same thing. In fact, it hardly ever happens at all. A lot of people try to do it, but most of the time, it is just too hard. It is hard to get people who are good friends to agree with each other sometimes...
The Impact of Athanasius on the Church's Doctrine As the church entered its four-hundredth year, controversy arose about the mysteries of God. The beliefs that are taught today were debated then. Most of the debates centered around the mystery of Christ being both human and divine, as well as to...
The title of the document is known as "The Human Condition." It was written on August 12, 1950 by Pope Pius XII. It was written about false opinions threatening to undermine the foundations of catholic doctrine. The catholic people during this time, were starting to form their own ideas about Ca...
School Vouchers, The Pledge of Allegiance, and The U.S. Constitution When a person reflects on the history of the united states it is certain that they will find politics and religion going head to head. Today these rival issues continue to pound at each other in the for front. The "Wall of Se...
Many events in the 16th and 17th century affected emigration from England to America. Between 1580 and 1650, many English men and women chose to migrate to the New World. Some elected to relocate because of competition for food and land, because of dreams of wealth, or to attempt to escape povert...
When looking at different cultures, the differences between each stand out very clearly. Likewise, amongst all the different cultures of the world, one aspect is prevalent in every culture regardless of time, location, and even influence. All cultures of all time have always had a religious aspect. ...
Ecumenism is a vital aspect of contemporary Australian society as it is the driving force for the unification that Jesus had wanted. God intended for one universal church however it was inevitable that this would not be the case. The Historical events of the Church such as the Dark Ages and Inquisit...
Religious toleration in the British North American colonies prior to 1700 existed in varying degrees. There were three main subsets of colonies: Northern, middle, and southern. Generally speaking, there was more toleration and less care as one went down the line from Massachusetts to the Carolinas. ...
The European world of sixteenth century had encountered revolutionary changes in its society and its obstinate Christian religion. By this time the Catholic Church was extremely corrupted that its spiritual leaders, the popes were far away from their religion and holy duty, and did nothi...
The French's Christian Mission and Its Effects The Europeans colonized and infiltrated African civilizations in order to make a profit and to be known as a superior nation. By doing this, European colonists "messed up- the traditional African lifestyle. The European mission to bring civilizatio...
As a child, I was well aware of my familial Baptist affiliation. My father, graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and became a Baptist missionary a pastor shortly thereafter. I have grown up in the Baptist faith, and in many ways, I agree with the Baptist ideals and traditions discus...
By the time the church confronted the issue of education on an institutional level, several important events had already occurred: The Church had transferred from Jewish to Gentile soil, The standard of orthodoxy was moving in a more theological direction, The Judaic roots of Christianity were radically de-emphasized as the Gospel message was universalized, The Biblical wisdom tradition was discarded in exchange for Greek education, Wisdom was redefined in classical terms, As the Church became more and more Gentile, less and less Judaic, an education system arose. ...