Religion and Theology

It is above all by virtue of its historical origin that the Christian community discovers its links with the Jewish people. Indeed, Jesus of Nazareth in whom it puts its faith, is himself a son of people. The link to their beginnings is the acceptance by Christians of the Sacred Scriptures of the Jewish people as the Word of God addressed to them as well. Indeed, the Church has accepted as inspired by God all the writings contained in the Hebrew Bible as well as those in the Greek Bible. Also, the...

Marie M. Fortune, the author of Is Nothing Sacred is not just an author and ethicist she is a heroine that battles domestic violence and a pioneer on the quest to fight the sexual exploitations by religious leaders. She is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ and was actively engaged in the National Advisory Council on Violence against Women for the U.S Department of Justice from 1994 to 2002. Currently, she serves on the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence for the US Defense Department....

Afterlife or life after death is one major concept that has occupied the human mind throughout their existence. The afterlife is the notion that the consciousness of man continues after the occurrence of physical death. This is mainly believed to take place in the divine sphere. Most of the existing views on life after death are derived from religion, obscurity and metaphysics. The views are either empirical assertions based on observation or religious viewpoints based on faith. The empirical views...

The inquiry into the question of the role of women in Islam religion tries to give light into several aspects in the life and rights of an Islam woman in the contemporary setting.  The rights in question include the educational and economical rights which are fundamental to the development of any society.  Women being most imperative in the entire economic architecture, their rights have to be observed.  However, the Islamic law (Sharia) provides for the distinction between the rights,...

 Hinduism is one of the religions which evidently lack a united belief system. It is however to be realized that as a religion, Hinduism is a well organized religion, which is made up of the strong belief that life is a suffering and that happiness can only be realized when one gets in a state of being a divine ground of being both in phenomenal and spiritual existence (Pauwels, 2002). The religion has been mainly influenced by the traditional philosophical cultures of the Indian people. The...

According to the Jewish theology, the God referred to Jews as his chosen people. Despite this fact they frequently became a target for persecution by the societies, in which they lived. The Jews and their teachings were always perceived as foreign, either as a monotheistic abnormality in the pre-Christian era or as a suspiciously successful minority in the modern era, especially in the predominantly Christian west. Although violent anti-Semitism has disappeared, most observers believe that anti-Semitism...

If  a  Christian  was  asked  whether  he  is  a  true  follower  of  Christianity,  he  would  surely  claim  his  faith.  God  says  in  the  Bible(1  John  3  17)  But  if  anyone  has  the worlds  goods  and  sees  his  brother  in  need,  yet  closes  his  heart  against  him, ...

The Bible, especially as might be expected, the New Testament, contains a number of passages concerned with what the Christian should be like, his attitudes, the things he should and should not do, and especially perhaps, with the main theme of the whole of scripture -  his relationship with his God.. Passages such as for example Philippians 2 v 5 Your attitude should be the same as Christ Jesus which links back to those early words in Genesis 1 v 27 where the Bible tells how God created mankind...

In Sanskrit, the word Goddess is called Devi and mostly this word is used by the people who follow Hinduism. It is believed by the Hindus that this word comes from the Shakti tradition of the Hindus and it is basically the female aspect of divine. Hindu Goddesses who are worshiped by the Hindus are referred as Devis who are the female counterparts of the male Gods and this basically represents discrimination. The female Goddess is also known as Prakriti and she balances the male aspect of Purusha....

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was not the product of an intensive, nor expensive scientific endeavor launched by some university or prestigious scientific or archaeological body. Rather, the fortuitous event was something that happened by accident. Bedouin goat herds were in the process of looking for a lost goat, searching for the lost animal along the cliffs of the Dead Sea (Ayala Sussman and Ruth Pelad 1). Muhammad ed-Dib, among the many Bedouin herdsmen who bring their flocks to the...

Taoism is more a tradition that is transmitted verbally to the next generations. No written records are available that can tell the exact history of Taoism. However, Taoism can be traced back to the shamanistic practices. Taoism is a practice that is very flexible and adaptable. That is why it is still surviving today because it can be easily moulded as per the needs of the time. Still today Taoism is keeping pace with the modern culture. Taoism mainly focuses on the practices that can give an individual...