Christianity Essays and Research Papers

He first states the root causes of anger, frustration, disappointment, and resentment. He then goes on to describe how anger if left unresolved affects every aspect of our lives from the physical to the spiritual and how this anger, if left unresolved, leads to serious health problems and spiritual danger. Dr. Evans speaks about several…

  It is the persecution of individuals within a group in the struggle to maintain their religious identity, or the abuse of power by an individual or organization that causes members of a religious group to suffer. In the case of the Holocaust, there is little argument about who created the extermination camps or what…

In The middle of the Eleventh Century The tranquillity of the eastern Mediterranean seemed assured for many years to come, but little did the people know what was ahead . This, thus embark us on a journey back into the First Crusade. In this paper I will be discussing the events that lead up to…

The Spanish Inquisition was country-wide persecution of Jews for which there are several different reasons as to why it began. The actual reason, or reasons, that motivated the King and Queen are not known at this time, and may never be known for sure. Depending on whom you ask, there are different reasons of that…

Westminster Abbey is a unique pageant of British history. The shrine of St. Edward the Confessor, and countless memorials to the famous and the great. It’s been the setting for numerous royal occasions, including sixteen royal weddings. Today it’s still a church dedicated to regular worship. It’s neither a cathedral or a parish church, Westminster…

Pagels says that rather than viewing Christ’s death as a sacrificial offering to atone for guilt and sin, the Gospel of Truth sees the crucifixion as the occasion for discovering the divine self within. In the Gospel of Mary, physical suffering has no reality because physicality has no reality (G. of Mary). Christ’s crucifixion has…

Christianity was traditionally understood to be founded by Jesus of Nazareth. Paul of Tarsus, after his conversion on the road to Damascus, worked tirelessly to establish Christianity among both Jews and God-fearing Gentiles of the Diaspora. Clues in the New Testament indicate that there was a significant rift between Paul and the Jewish leadership early…

Creole Louisiana is best known for its association with voodoo as an Afro-Catholic set of religious practices. This is combination of French culture and voodoo in Louisiana. Creole African Americans associated many voodoo spirits with the Christian saints known to preside over the same domain. They practiced making and wearing charms and amulets for protection,…

The story of the Church’s and Christianity’s rise to prominence in the Roman Empire is a remarkable one but also blurry one. The Roman Empire began when Augustus Caesar (27 BCE-14 CE) became the first emperor of Rome and ended, in the west, when the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by the Germanic…

.. ny persons of the anti-Christ religion strongly believe in annihilationism. The living attitude is usually harbored with a lack of conscience and desire for good. It is not considered an “afterlife”, but is a strong and constant argument against eternal life. B.B. Warfield claimed that there were three different forms of annihilationism. “Pure Mortalism”…