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    Orthodox Christianity

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    interesting experience. I grew up going to a Methodist church so this was the first time I had ever been to such a traditional type of church. I noticed a few similarities and several differences between the two types of Christianity. Orthodox is a very traditional type of Christianity that has been around for thousands of years. The service was mainly chanting and singing Psalms. During the question/answer session after the service Bishop Thomas told us that all Orthodox Christians worship the exact

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    Religion

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    categories: Muslims‚ the People of the Book‚ and idol worshipers. Initially‚ Christians had a simple dichotomy of world beliefs: Christian civility versus foreign heresy or barbarity. In the 18th century‚ "heresy" was clarified to mean Judaism and Islam;[citation needed] along with outrightpaganism‚ this created a fourfold classification which spawned such works as John Toland’s Nazarenus‚ or Jewish‚ Gentile‚ and Mahometan Christianity‚ which represented the three Abrahamic religions as different "nations"

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    Christianity And Abortion

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    application of African Traditional Religions‚ the Love Ethic of Jesus can also be applied to the concept of abortion. As one can tell by the name of this ethical system‚ Christianity is the main proponent of this system through its direct application of the Great Commandment. The Great Commandment states that one should love God and that one should love his/her neighbor as one loves his/herself. Following the Great Commandment without the applications of Christianity as a whole‚ abortion could be seen

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    views on religion‚ leadership and people. The views of Thomas Hobbes were very different from what the majority of the people in our country have today. He was influenced by the emerging experimental sciences more than scholastics. He used the methods from deductive reasoning to develop many of his own philosophes. He lived during the reign of Charles I and sided with the kings’ view of having complete control and power. This point of view caused him to be exiled to Paris by the people who had a

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    Religion

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    Religion Adrian Linnear-Walker REL/134 December 5‚ 2012 Brian Wilson RELIGION When the term religion is brought up‚ many different things came to mind. From the mention of praise‚ to the almighty God all the way down to prayer in general‚ everyone in everyway uses religion. However‚ many factions and cultures all have different techniques used in religion that fall on the same basic guidelines as the next. It’s these key similarities that leave a person to think about could we all worship

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    Religion

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    Religion Religion plays a very important role in people’s life. There are 3 main religions in the world: Buddhism‚ Christianity and Islam. Each of them has its own particular traits and its own believers. But almost all religions have a lot in common. Most religions deal with one or more of the following: meditation‚ morality‚ and wisdom; sacred texts and sacred practices; a connection to the sacred; a community. If we observe different religions usually they have some sort of discipline in

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    Christianity In America

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    To day we come to the close of our studies on “2000 + Years of Christianity” We look at the Pentecostal movement in America. http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com In the late 1800 a renewal of the Pentecostal Revival broke out. It is sometimes difficult to get a good assessment of the Pentecostal movement. In my research of the movement‚ I read many books and paper on the subject. The following is one excerpt. Christianity in America‚ edited by John D.  Woodbridge & 4 others who quotes from 65

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    The Religious Journey to Great Britain RELS 205 Final Assignment 00311870 The Religious Journey to Great Britain The purpose of this trip is to show the students how religion has flourished in the Britain and what we can learn from each site during a tour. This is a general guideline in how the tour will take across the southern part of Britain where most of our tour will take place. The free time is given to the students in each city by an hour or two to make sure the students observe

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    Some say that Religion and Wisdom go hand in hand. That one is unable to thrive without the other. In this Explanatory Synthesis I will discuss Karen Armstrong and Robert Thurman beliefs and differences about the two subjects. I am going to be using the section “Homo Religiosus” written by Armstrong and the section “Wisdom” written by Thurman to compare the author’s views. Robert Thurman is one of the first Americans to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He is a scholar‚ translator‚ activist

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    I decided to do my religious study on Catholicism because I am a protestant Christian‚ and our religions are generally grouped together under the banner of “Christianity” even though our beliefs and traditions vary. I wanted to learn more about the beliefs of Catholicism so that I could better understand the differences between it and Protestantism. As it turned out‚ this semester my Catholic extended family invited my family and I to mass while we were visiting them in Michigan one weekend‚ so we

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