Religion and Theology

This paper discusses my Christian worldview based on my belief in God, my faith in absolute truth and my confidence in the definition of right and wrong through the Bible. Christian Worldview America is now suffering from a Great Recession which was initiated by atheistic US bankers.  As the Telegraph reports, Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, attacked exploitative money lenders who pursued ruthless gain and urged banks not to enrich themselves at their poor neighbours expense. ...

Islam is one of the major world religions in the world. It is also one of the staunch faiths whose applications of the teachings of the Quran are taken with utmost strictness. The Quran acts as the guiding principle in the everyday life of a Muslim faithful. This discussion delves deep into the Muslim faith paying particular attention on what is considered sin and how forgiveness is done in this religion (Murad. 57) . In order to establish whether an act or omission in the Islamic faith the teachings...

Seven influential moral thinkers hammered just war tradition which has been distilled into seven principles where five of the principles judge whether a decision to go to war is actually justifiable while the other two are a guide to just conduct in waging a war. The principles of a just war include legitimate authority, just cause, just intent, last resort, reasonable chance of success, principle of discrimination and the principle of proportionality. The Spanish and Portuguese were not justified...

The Red tent is a fictious and melodramatic story about Dinah, the biblical character daughter of Jacob and Leah .Dinah comes out as a fascinating and courageous lady in this fiction. At puberty she enters the Red tent, which is a place where women enter when giving birth, experiencing menstruation or sick, its in this tent, where Dinah is initiated and taught the traditional, religious and sexual practices of her tribe by her mother Leah and stepmothers, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah. She falls in...

Open the television and what you may ask takes one of the biggest TV viewing audience shares Talkshows it is. From Oprah to Ellen, the talk show biz has gone a long way and delves on lives of celebrities and all other things that stirs the enthusiasm and interest of people young and old. With this power to influence the public, why not dwell on a subject that encompasses the very foundation from which all our life rules are based The Ten Commandments  still commands a sense of respect when...

The Gallican rite emerged from Gaul in the fifth century C. E., and was used in Western Christianity through the seventh and eighth centuries, being gradually replaced by first the Ambrosian and finally the Roman rites.  The main textual sources for the form and content of the Gallican rite are the letters of St. Germanus of Paris, though a variety of sources, from the British Isles to Spain, are used for the rites reconstruction.  While the Gallican rite is solemn, dramatic, and overlaid...

The creation accounts in the book of Genesis, (Gen 11-24a and Gen 24a-35) are two of the most commented accounts in the books of the Pentateuch, and this is for several reasons. One of the reasons is that these accounts are enveloped in the mythological part of the book of Genesis. The mythical aspect of Genesis is said to convey and unconceal religious truths as to how the universe began, where sin is rooted and so on. The first eleven chapters are known to contain the mythical part of Genesis. ...

I Introduction Art in many forms has been part of the church from a very early period. At first meetings were in the houses of members, but once the individual churches had their own dedicated buildings, what Lowrie calls the House of the church, they wanted to decorate them as described by Walter Lowrie in his 1947 book. (page105) Even tombs were decorated - Lowrie mentions the Roman catacombs ( page 19) which he describes as the first chapter in a long story. He mentions Biblical illustrations...

After the events of 911, the whole of the world especially that of America began to change how they viewed Muslims as a whole. They began to see Muslims as enemies, as dangerous, and as terrorists. The book provides its readers with a vital understanding of the Muslim world without the sensationalized concepts created by misunderstandings, misinformation, and misconceptions that we have created in the light of various terrorist acts. This book allows us deeper insights without the stigma of fear...

Nicolas Thomas Wright, also known as N.T. Wright was born on 1 December 1948. He is the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and is one of the greatest learners of the New Testament. His academic works has usually been published under his shortened name N. T. Wright. But the most fundamental works What St Paul Really Said and Simply Christian are announced under more informal name of Tom Wright. The book Simply Christian by N.T. Wright is very easy to read. The contention of the work is also...

From Abraham, traditionally dated 1812 BCE until the Babylonian exile (586-537 BCE), the story of Judaism divides into distinct periods beginning with the Patriarchal period from Abraham to Moses. This was followed by the Exodus, (1312 BCE), then by the settlement or re-settlement of Canaan. Next came the confederate period under charismatic judges, which was followed by the United Kingdom (1047-931 BCE). The next period, the divided kingdom, ended when the two kingdoms were conquered in 720 and...

Carl Hoch Jr.s The Role of Women in the Church A Survey of Current Approaches, was an explication of several Biblical passages, mostly coming from the New Testament and with emphasis given on their original Greek texts, that discussed the importance of women in the churchs apostolic era, and its implications in contemporary Western Christianity.  Most explicit in the article is his categorizing of the major approaches to the roles of women in the church, specifically those belonging to non-evangelical...

Karl Barth was a Swiss theologian born on May 10, 1886 in Basel and he spent his childhood life in Bern. His interest in theology was a nurtured from a tender age following the participation of his father in church ministries. He married Nelly Hoffman with whom they had a total of five children. Barths theological education dates back to Bern where he first accessed religious materials. To further his education, Karl went to Berlin, Tubingen and Marburg, where he had an opportunity to be taught...