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JESUS AND GOSPELS
Jesus and the Gospels
Jesus and the Gospels
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The four Gospels of the Christian New Testament can be found in the Book of Gospels. The four gospels include those by Matthew, Luke, Mark and John. Each of the gospels tells us the story of Jesus in different perspectives. Each of ...
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Bible
Bible
How did civilizations in the European West [AD 200-1600] develop the Catholic intellectual tradition?
As in one of those remarkable coincidences of intellectual history, Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure died in 1274, having taken in a sense to its best medieval thinking, also in 1685 Bach and Handel were born after take-century ...
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BUDDHISM ETHICS - JURY DUTY
Buddhism Ethics - Jury Duty
Buddhism Ethics - Jury Duty
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Buddhism is one of the globe's most significant and oldest religions. It has spread through almost all of Asia, influencing the many cultures there, and is now gaining followers in the West. But it had its started ...
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Bible in Context
Bible in Context
Bible in Context
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The Hebrew Bible is the Holy Scripture of Jewish believers. For Christian believers, however, it is only one part of it. They often call the Hebrew Bible the "Old Testament," as opposed to the "New Testament." By doing so, they also reinterpret the Hebrew ...
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RELIGION
Cuban Santeria
Cuban Santeria
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The arts of the Afro-Cuban Santería and Ifá religious practices gain their significance within the setting of altar assemblages and ritual performances. These sacred arts carry symbolic and functional value, but they are also evaluated and appreciated by participants in ceremonies for their appropriateness and beauty. Santería arts ...
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Jesus
Did Jesus Claim to be God
Jesus
Someone might respond to the above critique of Divine Command Theory by maintaining that since God, assuming there is a God, is the cause of everything, there could be (if the Judeo-Christian cosmological story is true) no goodness or anything else if there were no ...
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MEDIEVAL CHINA BUDDHISM
Barriers and Criticism that Buddhism had to overcome in the course of its growth in Medieval China
Barriers and Criticism that Buddhism had to overcome in the course of its growth in Medieval China
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Buddhism since the Eastern Han Dynasty was introduced into China after more than a thousand years ...
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GUAN YIN: The Bodhisattva that underwent a gender transformation in China
GUAN YIN: The Bodhisattva that underwent a gender transformation in China
Guan Yin, in Chinese Daoist myth, was the fertility goddess who made rice edible by humans. Until she intervened, grains of rice were dry and empty, and she squeezed milk ...
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The Bible's Buried Secrets
The Bible's Buried Secrets
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The famous T.V host, Stavrakopoulou in a video has recognized that many Biblical figures are essentially mythical. In one TV appearance, she seems to consider Jesus to be an exception, but her exact words were most scholars would agree that he existed. ...
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RELIGION
Islam and Modernity
Islam and Modernity
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The debate on Islam with respect to modernity is a long standing one and has been explored countless times. After the fateful World Trade Centre bombings, Islamic principles and t heir ability to co-exist with Western civilization came into light and because a serious issue on ...