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    Jordan Nematollahi Professor Nikki Bruckmann Cultural Anthropology 26 November 2012 Throughout history‚ the religions Christianity and Islam have conflicting views with one another and it has caused conflicts involving genocide‚ death‚ and pure hatred for one another. But if one breaks them down to a simple level‚ It reveals that the religions are not radically different from one another. I personally would know from personal experiences. My father is affiliated with the Islam religion while my

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    Explain  the  importance  of  the  Bible  in  the  Christian  Tradition   “Sacred  texts  express  a  relationship  between  people  and  their  god/s”1.  Sacred  texts   are  a  key  aspect  of  spiritual  understanding.  The  Bible  is  the  primary  and  only   source  of  written  worship  in  the  Christian  faith.  It  has  significant  importance

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    Tarsus it is unlikely that Christianity would be the major world religion that it is today. Originally called Saul‚ Paul was born in tarsus in southern turkey to a prominent Jewish family who could trace their roots back to the tribe of Benjamin‚ an of the 12 tribes of Israel. Paul was an apostle who had been thoroughly instructed by god and this had been made clear by his New Testament letters. There are various different aspects of rituals that are included in Christianity‚ with not only sexual ethics

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    The Decline of Christianity in Europe The twentieth century was a time of great flux and anxiety in Europe as the supremacy of Christianity in Europe was being challenged by the fronts of biblical criticism‚ and evolution. According to Rev‚ Andrew Greeley‚ a social sciences professor at the University of Chicago‚ belief in God has increased in Russia and Hungary and decreased in Britain‚ the Netherlands‚ western Germany and France. Atheism thrives in eastern Germany‚ Russia‚ The Czech Republic

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    People who follow Christianity are called Christians and Judaism are called Jews. There are 14 millions of Jews living in Israel‚ Europe‚ USA and 2 billions of Christians are living in the Europe‚ North and South America‚ and rapidly growing in Africa. Christianity is the first largest religious group while Judaism is the 12th largest group in the world. The clergies for Christianity are called priests‚ ministers‚ pastors and bishops and the clergy for Judaism is called rabbis. Christians’ house

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    312 Constantine entered Rome victorious. In 313 a new edict was issued‚ by which the persecuting edicts of Diocletian were repealed‚ the Christians encouraged‚ their teachers honoured‚ and the professors of Christianity advanced to places of trust and influence in the state. This great change in the history of the church introduces us to The Pergamos Period A.D. 313-606 The Epistle to the church in Pergamos exactly describes‚ we believe‚ the state of things in Constantine’s time. But we will

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    The spread of Christianity Christianity is one of the monotheistic religion built on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. who serve as the core point for the religion. Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the son and the savior of humanity whose coming as the messiah. Christianity arose from three distinct cultural traditions: Greco-Roman‚ Near Eastern (West Asian)‚ and Hebraic. it’s one of the oldest living religion in the western world. But first originally arise from Jewish community. Paul

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    Throughout the book‚ it is made clear that much of medieval society was centered around Christian beliefs. Chaucer was a Christian and through the various stories‚ several hints are given that suggest that Christianity was the primary belief of the time. Throughout “The Miller’s Tale”‚ themes of Christianity are mentioned several times. One example being when John claims that the reason Nicholas had fallen ill was because he was studying astrology which was part of God’s forbidden secrets that man did not

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    was from a homily delivered by Pope John Paul II which dealt with the topic of consumerism and materialism. The age in which we live puts a great emphasis on the possession of goods and of living with excess. What way can Christianity‚ or more specifically Catholicism‚ change the worlds view when it comes to the possession of items and goods? Catholicism can show that‚ in moderation‚ consumerism is not an inherent evil‚ as long as we do not let our material possessions consume us to the point that

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     and Europe. Religions like Christianity and Islam produced new culture and took on a more unifying and dynamic function. Both Christianity and Islam are monotheistic religions‚ both a development out of Judaic teaching‚ and both spread through conquest. However‚ when compared: Christianity developed many years before Islam‚ Christianity believes in the Trinity while in Islam Trinity is rejected‚ and Christianity spread to the West and Islam to the East. Christianity and Islam are both monotheistic

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