Belief Systems Essays and Research Papers
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The Ministry of Supervision That the Religious Community Offers Including Acts of Discipline
If pastoral care is defined as: “The ministry of oversight and nurture offered by a religious community to its members, including acts of discipline, support, comfort, and celebration” (Gerkin, 1997:126); 1.1 Name the four (4) functions of pastoral care. Guiding, Healing, Reconciliation and Sustaining 1.2 In 400 words, describe each of the functions of pastoral…
Belief Systems,
Community,
Community Service,
Religion
Zen Koan as a Means of Attaining Enlightenment
The Zen Koan is a written or verbal puzzle used in the teaching of Buddhism to bring the student to the level of satori or enlightenment. According to D T Suzuki in An Introduction To Zen Buddhism, the word Koan “…now denotes some anecdote of an ancient master, or a dialogue between master and monks,…
Belief Systems,
Buddhism
Arguments About Christ’s Sense of Innocence
.. ory: an explicit attestation to [Jesus] sense of sinlessness we do not find until we encounter them, as the fruit of the Logos-theology, in the pronouncements of the Johannine Christ . While I am not personally convinced with Berkouwers interpretation and prefer to base the rejection of this argument for Jesus peccability on the…
Belief Systems,
Christianity,
Religion,
Theology