Christianity vs. Hinduism

Introduction

This paper is an argumentative paper focuses on the argumenrt that Christianity subscribes to the nation of god being all-good and all-powerful, whereas Hinduism envisions Brahman as encompassing both good and evil. However, I disagree with the statement as Christianity is a religion, monotheistic and Abrahamic, after the preaching of the apostles celebrating the life and teachings of a prophet of the Near East named Jesus of Nazareth, nicknamed "the anointed" (that is to say the dedicated, in Greek: Christ). More than two millennia later, the number of Christians on Earth, that is to say people following these teachings in different ways, is between 2.23 billion and 2.3 billion distributed among nearly of 33,000 different denominations.

Hinduism is the oldest of all living religions. It is also known by the names Sanatana-Dharma and Vaidika-Dharma. The meaning of Sanatana-Dharma is eternal religion. Vaidika-Dharma means the religion of the Vedas. The Vedas are the fundamental scriptures of Hinduism.

Discussion

The largest number of Christians define their faith by the Creed , common foundation of faith affirming the oneness of God, life, death and resurrection of Jesus, "the resurrection of the flesh and the life of the world to come" ( as opposed to the afterlife the Egyptians or the Greeks). A change in the Creed by Rome opened the filioque controversy: if the Holy Spirit also flows from Christ, and not only of God, a soul can be saved only if the person is Christian, which completely changes the relationship to unbelievers and other beliefs. This controversy led to the schism of 1054 between Catholics and Orthodox. Centuries later, other challenges to positions of Rome led to Catharism and Protestantism. These issues are detailed below.

Christian Theology is devoted to reflexion on religion, life and faith; moreover it is a passionate intellectual participation and engagement in life. Engagement in religion is interwoven with culture and everyday-life, connects to the encounter with reality in general. Due to religion being a multidimensional phenomenon, encompassing cognition and emotion, theology has an inborn inclination to the experiential side of religion. Christian theology follows a twofold practical interest: in its analytical endeavor it tries to reconstruct praxis, and in its formative attempt it tries to give way to experiences in line with the freedom of the gospel. Theology in itself is normative, but not empirical, they would argue. However, these three poles are most relevant to my perspective on the discipline, because they indicate constituents of the reflective and engaged enterprise called Practical Theology (Alister, 45).

First: It has always been and still is essential for Practical Theology to relate to practice and religious life within congregations, though it does not simply affirm or double, what is going on there.

Second: Practical Theology makes use of scientific models, concepts and methods developed to study religion in order to participate in academic research in general, though it has its own interest in relation to and difference from social sciences.

Third: Practical Theology participates in overall theological reflection on faith, culture and ...