Religion and Theology

The opening verses portray Allah as a deity that invites his follows to a Home of Peace.  Allah will guide them on a straight path, and will reward all that do good works with promises of abundant blessings.  Allah will protect these followers and will treat them as heirs of Paradise where they will live forever.  However, it is quickly established that while those who do good works will be blessed, those who do evil will be rewarded with evil.  They will not be protected by...

Belief systems are established years before the time we are born. It is a traditional practice of moral values handed down from generation to generation. These moral standards help us to handle every day situations and are usually taught by our parents and grandparents through their examples of behavior and attitude. Christians and Non-Christians are the most common groups that exist, however, there are many religions that are placed under these two categories. A few other strict religions practice...

The Oxford movement belonged to the High Church of Anglicans which later developed to be Anglo Catholicism. Most members of this movement were associates of the University of Oxford who championed for the traditional practices of the early church.  However, they did not manage to convince the rest hence the conceiving of the Anglican Church as one of the three branches of Catholic Church (Church. 33-36). The Oxford movement was also referred to as the Tractarian Movement.  This term was...

Survival of human civilization requires discipline. Its incorporation as an innate component of what humans perceive to be creation is probably the sole facilitator for the existence of religion. Yet, since ages, abiding by religious doctrines has more than often proved to be ominous. Every religion preaches the word of peace amongst humans, whereas times and again religious beliefs has proved to be harmful to multitude of people. Oxford Students Dictionary of Current English defines religion as...

A monotheistic religion, revelation-based and worlds second largest religion, is known as the Islam. From the selection, Islamic perspective sees false idolatry as something that will deprive them of the Paradise. Only those who are faithful to Allah will inherit and be able to dwell it. Allah invites you to the Home of Peace. He guides whom He will to a straight path. Those that do good works shall be rewarded with abundant blessings. Neither blackness nor misery shall cover their faces. They...

True worship is a dangerous thing because in it we are required to bring our personal failings face-to-face with a holy, righteous, and just God (Williams, 2003). This particular statement from the book They Spoke from God A Survey of the Old Testament by William C. Williams, expresses the power of true worship. A person, who comes to seek God, kneels before Him and worships intently will be opening his heart and mind to God and will be experiencing His holiness and righteousness. The author may...

A Reference to the Tower of Babel and the Pharaohs Order Be fruitful and multiply. This is a line we commonly hear at Mass, but what does it really mean If we read the bible, we can find this line in Genesis, at that moment after God has created heaven and earth, plants and animals, and Adam and Eve. This sentence is redundant and simple, yet it holds a deep meaning. Be fruitful and multiplythis is Gods way of telling us to reproduce, to have children who represent God as we represent Him as we...

The crucifixion of Jesus was as dramatic as it was meaningful yet as politically motivated as it was religiously motivated. However, divinity provides sufficient grounding that the crucifixion was dully for divinitys sake. Profoundly, each of the assertion has sufficient backing relative to the ingenious of the presenter of the argument. Nonetheless, the crucifixion was as justified as is injustice to immense magnitude. Vividly, the crucifixion was motivated by both religious and political reasons....

There was once a philosopher who said that religion is mankinds most wonderful but at  the same time, most dangerous creation.  Religion falls under a dichotomy.  On one side, it is an instrument of social control and, to a certain extent, repression it defines the norms of society.  On the other hand, it serves as a means of establishing a personal and meaningful relationship between the individual and the Divine, which goes by many names depending on ones faith.  Its incorporation...

Judaism, as the Jewish religion came to be a religion of extreme diversity by first century CE where Jewish settlements in the Mediterranean areas inevitably affected their religious beliefs and practices. JUDAISM IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD By the time of Jesus birth, more Jews were living outside Palestine than within its borders. The City of Alexandria in Egypt became home to a large Jewish population and within the Third Century CE important Jewish communities throughout Asia Minor and Greece...

This paper will analyze the worldview of Oprah Winfrey, one of the role models of present day American society, and analyze its debt to the New World movement and its problematic relationship it shares with the Christian faith. Discussion This paper will discuss Oprahs performance and views depending on the specified Life Domains of Career and Money, Sexuality, Suffering and Death, Family and Friends. It will then try and analyze it to find out its theological and spiritual allegiance, and on that...

The New Age movement belongs to the most phenomenal of theological accounts on natural theism. By denouncing Gods existence at a hyper real level, this philosophy holds that humans are on top of the creation hierarchy and that humans possess the capacity to transcend their mortal selves to be the one similar to Gods stake, as projected by traditional Christian worldviews. Consequently, decision making practices are hinged on individual will and resilience, not to mention wisdom and foresight into...

Christianity is known to have been very audible in its views about homosexuality but so little has been heard from other religions. In Islam, the authorities have from time to time condemned homosexuality and as a matter of fact, they have forbidden it. However Islam is not clear about the issue. There are no verses in the Koran which clearly condemn it and some of them are considered ambiguous. Some Muslims are also saying that it can be tolerated (Siraj, par 1). So what does Islam actually say...

The term Koinonia, a Greek word, occurs around 20 times in New Testament. Each of these verses give one or more aspects of the Koinonia as implied by the original Greek term. Koinonia is mostly translated in English New Testament as Fellowship. The meaning of the Greek word takes many forms  Fellowship, close relationship, participation, gift, companion, partner and sharer. 1  Koinonia first occurs in Acts 2 42.  They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship,...

A Thesis Submitted to Atlantic Coast Theological Seminary in accordance with the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to investigate the Johannine epistles to discover the picture of a genuine believer through understanding the effects of salvation. The study focused on the relationship of the salvation of the believer to the Christians lifestyle, attitude and behavior. There were individual analyses of the three epistles of John.  The analysis...