Fundametalism Christianity Essays and Term Papers
210 Essays on Fundametalism Christianity. Documents 1 - 25
-
Christianity and Buddhism
This paper is a comparison between two very different religions. Specifically Christianity and Buddhism. Coming from opposite sides of the globe these two religions could not be any farther apart in any aspect. I will discuss who Christ is for Christians and who Buddha is for Buddhists. I will also get into the aspects of charity, love, and compassion in both religions and I will be looking at the individual self and how christians see
Rating:Essay Length: 2,093 Words / 9 PagesSubmitted: January 12, 2009 -
The Spread of Christianity
The Spread of Christianity By: Ryan Ku The Apostle Paul had four missionary journeys. These journeys are responsible for the spread of Christianity and created many churches throughout countries of the Mediterranean. On his first journey, Barnabas, Saul, and Mark, church leaders, accompanied Paul travel to the island of Cyprus and parts of Asia Minor. Paul would preach the gospel and start many churches. His journey started in the city of Seleucia and concluded in
Rating:Essay Length: 314 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: March 16, 2009 -
Christianity & Islam
Many may be surprised to learn that Muslims believe in Jesus' miracles. But this shared interest goes much farther. Jesus of Nazareth is the most widely revered religious figure in the world. Not only is he central to Christianity, he is also venerated throughout Islam. In our scientific age, the miraculous side of Jesus' story has greatly obscured his role in the prophetic tradition. In this sense, there may be more important questions for Muslims
Rating:Essay Length: 1,390 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 8, 2009 -
Globalization and the Christian Covenant
There is a famous children’s game called telephone, the object of the game is that one person starts a message and it is whispered to the next person and so on. By the end of the entire sequence, the message is generally mixed up and often makes almost no sense at all. However, this children’s game appears to have the same idea and outcome as globalization. As ideas, customs and cultures are moved from one
Rating:Essay Length: 1,219 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 8, 2009 -
Paganism in Christianity
Religions across the globe have their own distinctive rites and rituals, idols, traditions, and values. Each have in common a desire to explain something unexplainable by common wisdom, or attributing some aspect of life to some higher power. Many religions have at their heart etiological stories, which explain some sort of natural phenomenon through the physical manifestation of their deity or deities. From high winds and thunderstorms to love, fertility, and the sun, such religions
Rating:Essay Length: 3,323 Words / 14 PagesSubmitted: November 9, 2009 -
The Rapid Spread of Christianity
The Rapid Spread of Christianity Professor C August 2007 Period 5 Christianity was one of the fastest spreading religions of its time. There were many attractions to Christianity that led Jews and gentiles (non-Jews) to convert. Christianity appealed to every one of all ages, including the poor and women, which was very uncommon of a religion in that day . The poor and women were looked down upon in society, but when they stepped foot
Rating:Essay Length: 1,402 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 10, 2009 -
Beowulf and Christianity
Beowulf and Christianity There are stories told all over the world handed down from generation to generation. Some remember these stories by memory, but are lost in time, and some write them down to be remembered forever as a part of history. Beowulf is one such story that has been mysteriously remembered for many centuries. I’ve very much enjoyed reading Beowulf. However, since this story has been around for so long many people have added,
Rating:Essay Length: 860 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 10, 2009 -
Symbols in a Christian Wedding
Symbols in a Christian wedding The Rings The rings symbolize God’s unending love, as the shape of a ring has no beginning and no end. These symbols stand as the model of love for the husband and the wife who have both pledged their commitment to each other; and as they wear the rings, they are reminded of each other’s love. The circle of a ring represents undying love and the continually renewed vows of
Rating:Essay Length: 529 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 10, 2009 -
Christianity
This is a forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions into Christianity and the most popular among Lewis's books. Mere Christianity is a book that uncovers common ground upon which all those who have Christian faith can stand together. This was a key contributor to Chuck Colson's conversion. It was suggested to the Fool some time ago that C.S. Lewis' book Mere Christianity is a good
Rating:Essay Length: 1,448 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 11, 2009 -
Christians & Communists Against Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism
The Main issue with J.P. Sartre's Existentialism with both Communists and Christians seems to be that that the Communists and Christians do not accentuate enough on individualism compared to the, and that the world is big and hence society must be a whole and equal. Christians believe that life is a gift from God, and hence Sartre's existentialism seems to undermine Christian belief that life is God's gift, when existentialism tends to show reality of
Rating:Essay Length: 268 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 13, 2009 -
Christianity and Islam
Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death and resurrection of Jesus as described in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. Although Christians are monotheistic, the one God is thought to exist in three persons called the Trinity. Most Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God, but according to other traditions, Jesus is thought to be a human messiah that instructs his followers to worship God alone. Christianity encompasses
Rating:Essay Length: 1,582 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: November 14, 2009 -
Christians
"Christians," you know, the ones who wear the cross around their neck or tattooed on their skin, the ones who go to church on Sunday, the ones who invite you to church with them, the ones who will sit down and tell you all about "their religion" and judge you based on what GOD said. OR As I like to say, the ones who match their cross necklace or tattoo to the design of the
Rating:Essay Length: 1,769 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: November 16, 2009 -
A Christian View of Beauty
Beauty, a term once revered in ancient days as the pinnacle of physical attributes embodied in worldly entities, has seemingly in this day lost much of its meaning. Phrases like “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” have surprisingly become commonplace, and even Christians have begun to subscribe to the notion of aesthetic relativism. Specifically, this is the idea that beauty is purely contained within the observer and objects on their own have no
Rating:Essay Length: 1,351 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 17, 2009 -
Christianity and Buddhism
This paper is a comparison between two very different religions. Specifically Christianity and Buddhism. Coming from opposite sides of the globe these two religions could not be any farther apart in any aspect. I will discuss who Christ is for Christians and who Buddha is for Buddhists. I will also get into the aspects of charity, love, and compassion in both religions and I will be looking at the individual self and how christians see
Rating:Essay Length: 2,093 Words / 9 PagesSubmitted: November 18, 2009 -
My Understanding on Why Christianity Stands Strongly Against Homosexuality
My understanding on why Christianity stands strongly against Homosexuality It has been established that Christianity stands firmly against homosexuals and their marriages, as it goes against their beliefs and the words of God revealed in the bible. It is these holy doctrines in the bible that shapes the moral character of Christians, and lies evidence which the influence the viewpoints, Christians have against homosexuality. For many Christian faiths hold that homosexual behavior is a sin,
Rating:Essay Length: 597 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 18, 2009 -
Christian Review of Magnolia
Magnolia begins with the dramatic re-telling of three extraordinary events. A man is murdered by three men whose surnames iterate the town in which he was murdered, a scuba diver is lifted up by a seaplane and dropped onto a forest fire, and a man’s failed suicide attempt turns successful when he is accidentally shot by his shotgun-wielding mother. Such events hold little importance in the actual story of Magnolia, a story of how the
Rating:Essay Length: 954 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 18, 2009 -
Christianity: New Teachings for a New Way of Life
Christianity: New Teachings for a New Way of Life The Christian vision of Human Sexuality compared to many religions is seen as quite restrictive. Religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism do not put near as much effort in restricting human sexuality as Christians do. Particularly in Hinduism, sex is seen as a good thing and is even celebrated. Even more, some Hindu’s practice the teachings of the Kama Sutra “which provides the details of erotic
Rating:Essay Length: 1,129 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 18, 2009 -
The Flight of Christianity
The Historical Fight It [It must refer to a specific word in the sentence or the reader can become confused.] is always an honor and a privilege to learn of new nations and their people. However, not all nations began on stable grounds. For instance, Israel and the Palestine’s have both shared a difficult battle. Consequently, the battle between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been ongoing since the beginning of my religious convictions. The
Rating:Essay Length: 1,232 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 19, 2009 -
Jesus a Muslim Prophet or Christianity's Son of God?
The word "religion" in the Bible means “ceremonial service and worship to God”. In the Qur’an, it means “submission”. However, today this word may be used to refer to any set of beliefs, whether or not this set of beliefs includes service and worship to God or submission to God is yet to be decided. Religion, whether it is according to the Christian or the Islam definition, mainly teach people to be good by
Rating:Essay Length: 1,032 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 19, 2009 -
Teaching of Discipleship on a Christian of Today.
AO2: Explain how this teaching about discipleship might affect the life of a Christian today. Christian discipleship involves faith and commitment to God, self sacrifice, service to others, using your time, money and energy, as God wants you to not as the world tempts you to. It also involves belonging to God’s own family, the church, and daily commitments with God. Modern day disciples like Ghandi, (even though he was non-Christian) acted as true modern
Rating:Essay Length: 1,036 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 19, 2009 -
Christian Witness: Eleanor Roosevelt
After her husband's election to the New York state Senate in 1910, she performed the social role expected of the wife of a public official. President Wilson appointed Franklin Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I (1914-18). This was the same position that Theodore Roosevelt had held and did his best to promote war with Spain. The family moved to Washington. Eleanor for her part pitched into war work with the Red Cross.
Rating:Essay Length: 821 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 19, 2009 -
What a Christian Believes About Anthropology
What a Christian Believes about Anthropology “Anthropology in general refers to any study of the status, habits, customs, relationships and culture of humankind. In a more specific and theological sense, anthropology sets forth the scriptural teachings about humans as God’s creatures. Christian anthropology recognizes that humans are created in God’s image but that sin has in some way negatively affected that image” (Grenz, Guetzki, and Nordling 11). In other words, anthropology is the study
Rating:Essay Length: 759 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 19, 2009 -
Christianity
During the early 17th century, when Christianity first emerged in America, the goal of its earliest settlers was not only to strengthen the Church of England but also to spread their faith throughout the land. As a single, cohesive unit these settlers worked arduously to develop a country of strong Christian identity. Now, nearly 400 years later, their work has proved to be in vain. Yet despite America’s increasing lack of concern in religious
Rating:Essay Length: 562 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 20, 2009 -
Christian Martrydom - Opinion
Christian Martyrdom Martyrdom, the cause of death usually for a cause or for one’s religious views, can be viewed in two different lights. One, it can be regarded as one of the most noble of all human endeavors. An individual so devoted to a cause that they are willing to give up their life for it, it is an amazing concept. Or, it can be viewed as a reckless, foolish decision. Martyrdom is an extreme
Rating:Essay Length: 262 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 20, 2009 -
Percecution of Christians
Christians today form a happy and integral part of society. They have through history suffered greatly along the way. The most significant and remembered of these were the persecutions endured by the Christians at the hands of Ancient Rome. This Roman Persecution of Christians began in the second half of the 1st Century and continued sporadically until the religion gained official status in 313- under the Emperor Constantine The Great. Reasons for this persecution occurred
Rating:Essay Length: 446 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 20, 2009