Religion and Theology Essays

It emanates from a monk’s ardent desire to serve and unceasingly love his creator, which prompts a person to offer one’s life as a gift. This is such a strong desire aimed at wanting to acquire the promised spiritual gifts, which the scriptures state and reward of heaven after this earthly short pilgrimage (Migliore 74). 

He based his work on originality. He came up with just more than samples of objects excavated. He knew how to locate excavation sites and what to look for. These features made him a hero of his times as he became a person whom upcoming excavators wanted to become. In his home country, Biran was viewed as a local and international hero.

The debate of the afterlife among various religions has continued to generate heated debate in different forums. Similarly, it is critical to note that there are numerous religions around the world such Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Ascetism and Islam among many others that possess their individual doctrines and beliefs (Berry, 2006).

The rituals here include the harvest, wind-god rituals, fire, evil spirit, road-god, sun-goddess, and purification. In fact, the majority of the rituals used are derived from the Shinto culture, as shown in the ancient Kojiki. The rituals are not consistent in their forms, according to the article, as at one time they take the form of prayers, but in other cases the article only describes the practices of the rituals.

The Divine Comedy. In the poetry of Middle Ages, Dante is an incomparable case of almost discipular attitude towards his Classic predecessor, Virgil (Curtius 358). Yet as a Christian addressing such important issue as afterlife, Dante could not follow the entire Virgil’s vision.

Worship and Ritual in Christianity. Christianity is among the ancient religions that still exist in the world. The diverse Christian groups that exist have various ways of worship. It is seen as a means to praise and glorify the Supreme Being. There is the belief that human beings were created in the image and likeness of the Supreme Being.

Yoruba is one of the four official languages which are spoken in Nigeria. Yoruba is also a member of Volta-Niger branch of Niger Congo family of languages. About 22 million people spoke this language in southwest Nigeria, Togo, Brazil and the USA (Engler 2012, p.13) Oshun seems to like a fair skin bronzed colour woman who has very good smile.

Dr Rahula goes back to the earliest recorded teachings of the Buddha to provide a solid foundation for a fascinating religion. The book gives us a great introductory resource about the Buddha’s education, and the work is worthy of continuous reading, which will ensure more profound reflections on the concepts of Buddhism.

Religion has very diverse roles in the society. It is important to highlight that religion act as a bridge that connects different people from different cultures. It is also important to note that religion always gives people consolation and solution for problems.

A mostly true story, Martin Guerre is a man who lived in sixteenth century France. Plagued by boredom, and a hatred for his life, as well as early onset impotency, Guerre fled his hometown of Artigat in 1548 and disappeared for eight years, leaving behind a wife and son.

Admittedly, Pope Benedict XVI is noted for his recent statements related to the environment. It seems that he is very interested in the subject because he has spoken and written about the environment and human responsibilities in a number of situations. Evidently, the Holy Father’s message expresses the Christian view of the environment and ecological coexistence.

Biological perspective has also been explored in explaining religious beliefs among different personalities. This research revealed that there is a spirituality gene in every person. Moreover, the study investigate the linkage between genes and spiritual beliefs based on twins and the study concluded that the spiritual beliefs of twins closely overlap.

Falun Gong: Why Does the Chinese Government Persecute It? The Falun Gong movement is an on-going movement in China. However, even though other religions are tolerated in China, Falun Gong is not. The reasons for this are complex, but the underlying reason, in a nutshell, that the movement is not tolerated is that it is a threat to the Chinese government.

Islam is the second most popular religion in the world. It trails only Christianity in membership and, along with Judaism and Christianity is one of the Abrahamic religions. Basically, Islam and Christianity are brothers of the father Judaism. Islam should be familiar to both of the other religions in its family.

The Qur’an is the holy text which holds the fundamental ideas underlying the Muslim faith as it is practiced across the world. Finally, there is an examination of the Qur’an’s impact on the world today and the prospect of its continuing influence on the world in the future, along with a summarizing conclusion regarding the overall importance.

Perhaps one of the most publicized case of religious violence is the 9/11 bombings of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Such act of aggression has led the world to label Muslims as “terrorists” and reignited the war between religions. Because of the War Against Terrorism launched by then-president George W.

The beliefs, practices, authority, worship and polity of Seventh-day Adventists are founded on the mandates of the Bible or the Holy Scriptures in tandem with the guidance of Ellen G. White, a pioneer and anointed messenger of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Carlos M. N. Eire is a historian whose main works are concentrated on early mediaeval time in Europe. In his book "War against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin", he discusses the way the people related with their God according to religion.

To understand this article The Case for Contamination, it helps to know that Kwame Anthony Appiah is an advocate of Cosmopolitanism, a global ethics which aims ‘to establish universality and shared values as a determinant or common denominator.”(Appiah book, 2006).

Unlike other religions where followers believe in a supreme being, Buddhists believe that Buddha was just a common man like any other man. They believe that in the earlier years, Buddha lived in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent and taught different people. Most Buddhists describe Buddha as a true teacher who awakened them from their ignorance.

One’s personal viewpoint on truth is that which is universally known and accepted as factual, real, and not imaginary. It is the anti-thesis of falsehood, spurious, or erroneous.

According to Hinduism, each of the stages of life has a different Dharma and is representative of various periods, i.e. preparation, production, service, and retirement respectively. The laws of Manu are a legal code that insists on men earning the right to renounce the world through their initial existence in the world. This right is achieved by being an exemplary student, husband, and father.

Walking as a practice is a way to meditate. As a result, the individual will have numerous benefits. Walking meditation is one of the most common forms of personal development (self-service) practiced by Buddhists. The benefits accrued from walking mediation includes general fitness for journeys that involve long walking, development of little or no disease, proper digestion for food consumed by the walking individual and general improvement of the body’s posture and composure (Nguyen 14).

The Easter controversy was regarding the date on which Easter should be celebrated. The Asian Christians celebrated it on the 14 Nisan whereas the Romans believed that the fast of Easter should be observed from Friday to Sunday following the 14 Nisan.

Perhaps the reason that the Lord of the Rings resonates with so many people is because it is Christian without appearing to be Christian.

However, at the age of 29, Siddhartha made a number of visits out of his home ground and encountered four major sites that changed his life forever. Siddhartha saw an old man, a sick man, a dead man and finally an ascetic who seemed thoroughly content with his life.

The life that people live should leave a mark that will be of a great impact on future generations. Those who have such a perception as Romero join hands with the people in their struggles not only when they go to church for confessions but in taking action, engaging themselves to resolve differences among the people, and fighting for what is just. 

Madden starts with the parallel between former President Bush’s remarks about Islam and those of the crusaders and proceeds to the persuasive but too evidently engaged apologetic speech. It seems to require a far more cautious approach: modern morality is itself socially constructed and cannot be the yardstick for the measures of Medieval morality.

This is in reference with God’s holiness and power, as his faith is based on the fact that God is omnipresent. From the fact that God is good, he therefore expects that everything around the world to be good as well as it is a reflection of God’s goodness.

For a better interpretation of the Acts of Apostles, it is important to note that the Acts of Apostles is the manifestation of the fulfilment of Jesus’ promise to His disciples that He wouldn’t leave them as Orphans, but that He would send them the Holy Spirit who would act as their guide in their mandate to preach the good news (Turner, 2003). 

The author argues that Haile Selassie 1 and Marcus Garvey were among the founders of the association. Haile Selassie and other leaders founded Rastafari to oppose the oppression that black people underwent as slaves in the Caribbean. According to Hall, the leaders of the movement aimed at helping Africans to retrieve their heritage.

The only religious thing that Dawkins and his fellow members from the New Atheists movement are the anthropomorphic God. This is not relevant to them since they are not able to argue on the existence of God or even atheism, yet they confess to being atheists (Israel, 301). Moreover, this God is only believed by a few people.

The individual is bound to follow their judgment of conscience. However, it is possible for the conscience to be in error. According to the Catholic Tradition, how does one protect, as best as possible, their conscience from error? What are the reasons why a conscience may be erroneous? What role does the teaching authority of the Catholic Church play in this regard?

The definition of various symbols and ideologies that are a part of religion create a different understanding and association with various ideologies. The symbolism is not only identified by the main aspects of religious theology. There is also an extension into the symbolic meaning behind various topics.

The fathers have a role to determine the worthiness of the spouses who intend to marry their daughters. The selected bridegroom has to consider several attributes before he agrees to take in the bride, one of them is whether he is fit to marry the girl. This brings fear to the men who risk being rejected by the bride’s family if not found worthy.

Joseph was a young man loved and cherished by him, father Jacob. The father’s approval provoked jealousy that culminated in the attempts to kill him by his brothers. A late alternative caused his brothers to sell him to Egypt as a slave. However, this ended up being a divine plan for salvation. The integrity of Joseph made him a worthwhile missionary who was set to achieve a special purpose.

Hospers presents his views that in a world where everyone owned everything responsibilities to defend the rights of others. This statement fits with Hospers larger arguments on the rights that all persons have including the right to life, liberty, and property. He suggests that the government cannot infringe on these rights but it should protect them.

It is undeniable that the East Asian regions have well-defined and diverse religious structures that tend to be more or less similar in terms of beliefs and rituals. Some of the East Asian countries, which share these religious systems, are China, Japan, Vietnam, and Vietnam with the first two have more intricate and distinct belief systems.

Many people ascribe the attainment of success to certain pathways. To an American lecturer, mythologist and writer Joseph J. Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987), there is no recanting of these pathways, only that he is specific of them, as can be seen in his treatise, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

The first section is from chapters one to thirteen and gives an account of how the Israelites had been enslaved in Egypt for many years. The story about the birth of Moses, how he grew up, and how he was called by God to deliver the Israelites is also contained in the first section (Ex. 2:1-25, New King James Version).

This is the same God who served as the Creator, Liberator, and Savior. Moreover, the promises of God in the Old Testament are finally fulfilled in the New Testament. The beginning of this fulfillment is in the death and resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament (Lesson, 6.1). To better understand the New Testament, one needs to study the Old Testament.

As this has worked in western Muslim societies, it is convincing this would also apply to the situation in the local Muslim countries. However, this is a war against the odds as the antagonists of women religious leaders provide Quranic evidence to disapprove of the battle of women to acquire leadership positions.

McCloskey’s arguments are excuses by atheist not to believe in god. This is because the concern he raises in his article is concerns shared by all including believers. We all wonder who is God and his existence why some things happen in this world like death and other things beyond human comprehension.

It was time for an acid test for this new faith, as its leadership was passing hands to a generation, which had not heard and seen Jesus first hand. There were essential questions about the nature of Christ, which had to be answered. Non-existent terminology had to be coined and theologies and names for theologies evolved with the passing of time.

Hinduism has often been considered a predominant and indigenous religion in the Indian subcontinent that keeps its multifaceted characteristics through various principles. Hinduism is formed and developed through a group of principles or practices, known as ‘Sanatan Dharma’ which means the eternal religion or eternal law.

The word ‘agape’ is best used to describe sacrificial, selfless, unconditional love, which has all these four types of love best described in the Bible. The word has various forms of love found in the Greek community, some are found in the Bible. However, this word is used to describe the love of Jesus Christ for his Father and His followers.

One of the elements of human beings is religion, defined as the belief in a supreme power. Hinduism is one of the major religions on earth with beliefs and practices that are distinct from those of other religions. This paper seeks to explore Hinduism as a religion. The paper will discuss the religious beliefs that are practiced by Hindus as well as their dialogue.

Religion was founded in the Middle East more than 3000 years ago. Their primary belief that stands unshaken across all the categories or sects of the religion is that the Jews are the chosen people of God to set an example for the rest of the world concerning their “holiness and ethical behavior”. It is the foremost among the three Abrahamic faiths.

The article compares the core values of the religions of Buddhism and Islam. Buddhists believe that Buddha is the best example of how humans should live. Gautama is the founder of Buddhism. There were various factors that made people refer to him as the Enlightened One (Samovar, Porter, and McDaniel, 2012).

The first three books in the New Testament (Mathew, Mark, and Luke) are referred to as synoptic gospels. These books talk about similar subjects and stories concerning Jesus Christ. These books do not cover the events about Jesus Christ in the same length and detail. The books cover the events surrounding the life of Jesus Christ in the same sequence, and in most cases, have used similar words.