Religion and Theology

Pastors have been designated to offer spiritual counsel since the early days of the church. Today we think of it as a recent trend from the past. Pastoral counseling has since grown up alongside psychological counseling, seeking to find its identity against the healing or therapeutic culture. Pastoral counseling has become a modern treatment than the traditional soul caring as pastors have distanced from psychological counseling and have now tended to offer biblical counsel living psychological...

Many Christians worldwide often encounter and clash with many concepts, theories, practices, and doctrines in their quest for how best to live a life of spiritual fulfillment. Such Christians find themselves in a fix while trying to get knowledge to avoid doom (Hosea 46). These dilemmas do not spare even the ministers of God who seek to enrich their knowledge in Pastoral Counseling, since they find themselves weighing between what they believe in, what the church believes in, and what the secular...

The film Saved dealt on one of the most common issue in the religious circles and debates  the question on the interpretation of the words of God in the bible and the discrimination on the people who did not abide in the words of God. In this paper, with the help of the film and the analysis of the situation in the real world, we are going to argue that groups who are literal in interpreting the Bible have to make adjustments for them to continuously save souls. In the film, the Bible became...

Eastern Pantheism holds as its tenets that nature has a soul and that God can be found anywhere. Pantheism is derived from the word pan which means all-encompassing or universal and theism, coming from the Greek theos which signifies God. Eastern pantheistic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism venerate nature as a sacred entity (Totten 2000). Life DomainsWorld view Money and CareerHinduism has a renunciation principle which preaches the non-attachment of devotees to the things of the...

Ephesus, a city symbolizing the greatness of history now lies mysterious and underground beneath the many stories that abound upon it. A place of popularity centuries before Christ and even after His death, it is but natural for archeologists and historians to take interest in its excavation.  For common people such as this student, however, it presents not only a paper to research about but a road to rediscovering one s faith. Ephesus lies on the western part of Turkey. Historians believe...

William Foxwell Albright was born in 1891 and died eighty years later in 1971. He was born in Chile, where his parents were missionaries. Poor eye sight as a child meant he did not often join other children in play. Instead he turned to his fathers library. The family returned to the United State of America in 1903. Always a scholar,, his skills meant that he obtained his doctorate in Semitic languages at the very early age of 22 in 1913.  From 1929  1958 he taught at John Hopkins University...

Saved, the United Artists 2004 religious comedy film that was directed by Brian Dannelly and produced by Michael Ohoven, Sandy Stern, Michael Stripe, and William Vince, delved on the norms on social acceptance that was prevailing in American Eagle Christian High School.  Being a conservative Christian school, the story then revolves around the character of Mary Cummings, which was portrayed by Jena Malone, specifically in her personal struggles that resulted from being impregnated out of wedlock. ...

In McMinns 1996 book Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling, the author goes into detail about the theoretical and technical applications and interventions involved in the practice of counseling from a Christian perspective.  McMinn discusses bringing religion into the counseling office.  He asserts that religion is always addressed in counseling, in a variety of ways.  Religion is either presented as a negative force which should be removed from a clients...

Since ancient times, man has been known to be a religious being. Religion has always played a crucial role in a mans life. This is evidenced by the presence of so many religions in the world. Currently, the world hosts more than 2 billion Christians, Muslims numbering 1.5 billion, 900 million Hindus, 400 million Buddhists, 13 million Jews and lastly, 24 million Sikhs. These figures exclude the minor religious groups (New statesman, 2009). The world has brought these different faiths closer to each...

THE EXISTENCE OF GOD There have been many arguments from various circles on the topic of whether God is there and He exists or otherwise. The arguments are always directed to the class of people who are believers of God from the non believers. The quest on what to believe will and shall remain a subject and a born of contention as long as the two camps exists. The concern about the existence of God and the question whether indeed and in fact there is God dates as back as the tangle that has been...

The development of the three major universal religions, that is, Christianity, Buddhism and Islam has changed over time. The main concern is to explore how converts, missionaries, trade and pilgrims enhanced the spread of diverse practices and beliefs of the religions. The new faith was spread to state rulers, travellers, merchants and local communities who were ready to promote and adopt the new religions. It is noted that some of the means the religions claim to have used in the spread of their...

Reading through the book Mr. Ives Christmas, there were three major events in Mr. Edward Ives story which had effects on his faith to the divine love of God. First of those three important events is the day when Mr. Ives was adopted by a widower. It was Christmas when Mr. Edward Ives was left as a baby on the doorstep of an orphanage and it was also on the same occasion that he was adopted by a widower who treated him like a real son. His adoptive father raised him up to be a good Christian, exposing...

The Virgin Mary, the mother of God remains to have a noteworthy role in the history of Christianity, whether it was from the perspective of the Catholic or the Protestant faith. The critical issue considered when it came to the discussion about Mary was not about her significance.  Instead, it was in the debate about the veneration and honor that was due to her, in accordance to the will of God.  There was the question as to how Mary should be perceived in accordance to what the Holy Scripture...