Religion and Theology

Introduction It has been found that throughout the world, major religions have tried to justify terrorism in an effort to overcome religious intolerance.  The main cause of such an influence is that often religion has a strong influence on people and society such that people feel religion can be used as a mean to fight injustice and evil, or use the same as a mean of self-defense.  Often it has been found that a strong attachment to God without worldly consideration may increase the likelihood...

Civilization is connected to the progress in culture and establishment of social order in a society through its political and religious structures. Christianity has influenced a lot of changes in the world, more than any other religion in social order and philosophical thought. Christianity has been close knit to the values, practices and beliefs in Western culture. Its contribution can be linked to four major aspects of civilization which include the economic order, political organization, establishment...

Introduction Since time immemorial, sacrifice has been considered as an integral part of religion. Sacrifice is a common feature of all religions.  All monotheistic and polytheistic religions show evidence of a form of sacrifice to which religious importance are attached. The motivation for sacrifices comes from different aspect of religion. Sacrifice is considered to perpetuate, intensify, and reestablish connection between human worshipers and the divine.  Sacrifice is intended to help...

Divinity is the very nature of God. Jesus Christs divinity is exposed over and over again in the Holy Scripture or the Bible from the New Testament to the Old Testament. Jesus reveals His deity in many ways. The passage I and the Father are one (John 14 6-9) is one of the evidences that Jesus is God. When the devil tempts Him in Matthew 410, He bluffs him by saying You shall not tempt the Lord your God (147). It means that the devil himself knows already the divinity of Christ from the very beginning...

The Ahl al-Bayt (literally People of The House or family) is one of the most important pillars of Islamic history and an integral part of its leadership. The Prophet Muhammad had a family, and his family is venerated by all Muslims, be it Sunni or Shia. The Prophet Muhammads family and household compose the Ahl al-Bayt. However, the number of the family members and the interpretations in the Ahl al-Bayt changes according to the sect of Islam. In Sunni Islamic circles, the Ahl al-Bayt includes his...

Critique Osburns (1989) article, Those who have never heard Have they no hope is a discussion on whether or not people need to believe in the Gospel of the Christ in order to be saved from eternal damnation that God has prepared for sinners.  The author contends that people can be saved even if they have not heard the Gospel.  Even so, it is most essential to believe in the right God before attaining eternal salvation (Osburn, 372).  The author explains that knowledge about the Creator...

The 20th century was an era of spectacular change.  Within this time period occurred one of the great shifts in the way Man perceived his world.  From the late 1800s to the present, Man became Modern. In ages past, people were more inclined to believe that people had a certain fixed place in the world.  In the West, there was a strict hierarchy that began with the Almighty God and descended through religious leaders to kings and princes and so on down to the fathers of individual...

This paper is an exegesis on Confucianism, Daoism, and Hinduism with reference to relevant excerpts. Discussed in all these passages is the concept of human beings as constituents of the larger universal power, which primarily rules the actions, the reasons, and the results of all that men do or desire. The excerpts on Confucianism and Daoism state the origin of Dao and its deeper meaning. Dao or the supreme power is born when a man seeks the path of love, dismisses all thoughts of winning over...

Evidentialism  in  the  modern  age  has  taken  a  forward  step  in  dominating  the  classical  apologetic  approach,  but  the  need  for  apologists  is  increasing  with  age.  Refusal  to  believe  in  anything  without  proper  proof  is  a  lasting  trend.  Evidentialism  focuses  on  providing...

In the influential book Primitive Culture, Edward Tylor defined religion as belief in Supernatural Beings. This minimalist definition of religion is a reference to traditionalist emphasis on religion as a private and intellectual activity. This is in contrast with Durkheim behavioral approach. In his work Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Emile Durkheim defined religion as a system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things   things which are set apart and forbidden. Those who belong...