Faith and Knowledge Believing and Knowing There are things in this world that go beyond human reasoning. There are things is this world that people don't want to acknowledge. For example, scientists don't want to acknowledge that faith and God exist. They claim that they need to have ...

1. If Gnosticism had succeeded in implanting its own distinctive ideas into Christian thought, Christian theology would be different in many fundamental ways. Because Christian theology has a strong foundation insofar as its teachings are concerned, the very structure and nature of Christian t...

Gnostic writings of Jesus portray him as a heavenly redeemer made less of flesh than of spirit. The emphasis of Jesus' importance is not on his physical humanness but rather, on his ability to show people the way to the kingdom. Jesus put on flesh in order to give people gnosis and reveal to the...

The word renaissance comes from the French language meaning "rebirth". This rebirth of man may have been caused by the broadening horizons of man's geography and knowledge. This time period was marked by legendary explorers such as John Cabot, Vasco de Gama, Balboa, Magellan Hernan...

Descartes and Nietzsche both state with the individual, but in different ways and senses. Descartes starts his investigation of what can be known with certainty with the thought experiments of the individual, namely, the individual perceiver and thinker, namely, himself. Nietzsche, is concerned wit...

In search of the truth, I found life. Researching this book has opened my eyes and my mind to understanding my faith. Through eyewitnesses and Biblical accounts, historical facts and archaeological findings, we can develop knowledge of our faith through substantial evidence. The historicity and...

Science has been steadily moving in on the territory of religion. When the moons of Jupiter were discovered in the beginning of the 17th century shattered the current belief. In traditional cosmology, there was only one center of motion, the center of the universe which was the place of the Earth. T...

Saint John of the Cross - "I abandoned and forgot myself, laying my face on my Beloved; all things ceased; I went out from myself, leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies." John of the Cross is one of the acknowledged masters of mystical theology. It is thought among present day theo...

Discovering the essence of Christianity is too varied and diverse a topic for anyone to pin to solely one definition. How one approaches the topic of Christianity is often in accordance to their personal foundations of religious belief. Sometimes these beliefs are deeply seeded during childhood ...

What is God? To the people that want to believe in Christianity, God is the sole Supreme Being who is worshipped as the controller of some part of the universe or some aspect of life in the world. He is a spirit that is eternal and unchangeable. Within his being are wisdo...

What is a Human Being? There are three main viewpoints in argument on what a human being is. Those viewpoints are empirical, rational and metaphorical. Empiricists base their views on observation and experimentation. Rationalists rely on reason as the best guide for belief and action. A me...

The Organization of the Early Church. According to The Acts of the Apostles, the church began on the day of the first Pentecost, but the need for the development of the church is presented well before it's actual creation. The gospels of Matthew and John reveal the apostles preparation by ...

Although ambiguity in factual writing is a flaw in the creation of prose and poetry multiple meanings are desirable. In this modern novel, Demian, Herman Hesse introduces many and mixed references, all of which contribute to variety of meanings. Though biblical themes, personas and symbols, the auth...

Jesus of Nazareth shares meaning and value with other great historical influences of time such as Buddha. They are both categorized as great moral teachers who continue to influence even after death. They share similarities and differences at birth, during the time of their lives, and at death. T...

In class discussions and in the readings the word miracle is defined as a violation of the natural law, and positive instances of those violations. In discussions miracles boiled down to be a supernaturally caused event; an even different from what would have occurred in the normal course of events....

Bible 301 Our English word Bible comes from the Greek word Biblos, which means "book." In theology a study of the Bible is called bibliology. While the word Bible simply means "book" the words "The Bible" distinguish it as the supreme, unique and incomparable Holy Bib...

Christianity was traditionally understood to be founded by Jesus of Nazareth. Paul of Tarsus, after his conversion on the road to Damascus, worked tirelessly to establish Christianity among both Jews and God-fearing Gentiles of the Diaspora. Clues in the New Testament indicate that there was ...

Religion is a very important part of most people's lives. Many of us think of ourselves as being religious, but how many of us actually study the basis of our beliefs? Before I took this course I never really thought about the importance of knowing more than was taught to us in church. As a you...

The Gospel of John is the fourth book of the New Testament. The passage that we will be dealing with from the book of John is chapter one verses one through five. In the outline from the background study it is under the section, "The eternal Word incarnate." This passage is the prologue,...

THE SERVANT OF CHRIST "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ" (Gal. 1:10). Does The Preacher Please Men Or God? With sarcasm Paul asks in Galatians 1:10: "Am I trying to persuade God to fall in li...

(A cult in the webster's is defined as," a system of religious worship, especially with the reference to it's rites and ceremonies".) The word cult comes from the Latin word cultus, which means "worship". "In this sense the cultic act is an act of worship, inv...

St Benedict lived from 480 A.D. to 547 A.D. He founded the first monestary in Monte Casino. He developed a detailed plan for monastic communities, called The Rule of St. Benedict. The rules for the monestary were completely derived from the bible....

"The Contribution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Interpretation of the Old Testament" In reviewing the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the study of the Old Testament seems to be almost non-existent. It is not until his time in Tegel Prison, nearly one year prior to his execution, that h...