Truth according to my sister, who will be a sophomore at the University of Georgia, is objective. Through the past two years my sister's faith has really taken flight and she sees things through different eyes. She accepts the fact that there is a greater power than her own and she is subjec...

Lumen Gentium, arguably the most significant document to emerge from Vatican II in 1964, symbolizes a new turn in Catholicism, changing the way the Catholic Church views itself and its relationship to its world. Throughout Lumen Gentium, phrases such as "proclaiming... to every creature," ...

God is a complex being only understood partially, and his existence is challenged by some but accepted by Christians as a matter of faith. It is possible to prove any aspect about his existence through Thomas Aquinas. The Christian Trinity consists of the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit which is...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an extraordinary story about Stephen Dedalus and how he is effected by the Catholic religion. Stephen grows up with his nationality and faith playing a gigantic role in his life. His community has many religious expectations that he learns to live by. Event...

The subject of modern international relations, which is quite broad, is approached from many different perspectives. Arguably, this makes it imperative to understand the history of the subject in order to understand the present. In The Philosophy of International Relations, F. Parkinson introdu...

I believe that Kepler contribute order in a time of disorder and chaos. Before Kepler’s theory was excepted, everybody believed that God controlled everything and earth is the center of the universe. People at the time were very superstitious, they believed in witches. They were very religious...

In several literature works the objective is for the reader to understand the concept that the author is implying. Dante\' Algheri\'s The Divine Comedy is a classic example. This poem centrally represents the expression of the medieval mind in imaginative literature. The symbolism in \"The Inferno\...

How and why did the views of Luther and Galileo threaten the Catholic Church? Luther and Galileo were two very different extraordinary men with their own mindsets. They were very threatening to the Catholic Church. The things that they believed and that were published were questioning the ch...

From the time humans first developed the capacity to verbally communicate, they looked to the heavens and developed varying beliefs in a power beyond their limited comprehension or understanding. This power is known by many today simply as God. Since the dawn of mankind, most religions have attemp...

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 wisdom, holiness, justice, goodnes...

Is there really a judgement day. This is a question that no one really knows the answer to. No one really knows what happens after a person dies. There might be a heaven and hell, and there could be nothing after this life. A lot of things that Emerson make sense. As he said if you do so...

Through Kyriacos Markides book, The Magus of Strovolos, the esoteric teacher and healer Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis also known as Daskalos , shows his own understanding of Christianity. Throughout Daskalos' teachings you can see how his perception of the religion challenges and somewhat moves away ...

In the early 18th century the colonies of America were going through a religious low. Their beliefs were very complacent in old beliefs. The Great Awakening originated in Europe when political shifts put an end to deep spirituality. Charles II took over the thrown and began purging his court of Puri...

Christy Sanchez STILL CATHOLIC AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I believe in God, Father Almighty, and in Jesus Christ, His only begotten son, Our Lord, who was born of the Holy Ghost and of Mary, the Virgin, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate and buried; on the third day He rose from the dead ascen...

In the American colonies before the Great Awakening, each colony existed as it's own unique territory with each having greatly contrasting ways of life and religion. Up until the Great Awakening, there had been no true force that served to unify all the colonies together under a single ideal or...

Tradition Have I ever rebelled against tradition? Sure I have. There were many occasions where I just wanted to go against everything and do what I wanted to do. That is a part of life, doing what you want to do. There are certain things people and society want you to believe, and...

The majority of all books are trash. Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry is a great book because it has credibility, a timeless theme, and it has the necessary action. Any book that can do that is a great book. The credibility of Elmer Gantry is something that will keep this book eternally great...

The Story of Three Church MassesThis is a story of three separate church masses. Each mass has their worth of content and each mass has their own believers and supporters. The first mass visited was a small mass in the Chapel of the Xavier Dormitory at the University of San Francisco. It was held on...

Maturity falls into two categories, physical maturity and psychological maturity. For most people, physical maturity occurs in any case, whereas only those who quest for self-identity achieve psychological maturity. James Baldwin depicts this kind of maturity in Go Tell It On The Mountain via the pr...

The story of Joseph is a two-fold demonstration of the Christian idea of an omniscient and omnipotent God with a master plan for the life of each human being and for the universe as a whole. Every circumstance in Joseph's life is turned around to lead to his ultimate position as an Egyptian ruler, ...

How easy is it to put trust in people? I'm sure most people can put their trust in friends, relatives, or people that they fluently know. But what about trusting someone they know nothing about? Could trust be put into something when a person doesn't believe in it or believe it exists? Tha...

CORTES Cortes: The Life of the Conqueror was written by Cortes' assistant, chaplain, and secretary, Francisco Lopez de Gomara. The text, an epic written in a courtly style that tends to simultaneously enumerate and generalize the presented accomplishments, follows the life o...

The Pledge of Allegiance is spoken daily in many schools throughout the United States. During the last several years this fact has become a source of contempt for many parents, who do not promote a particular religious belief in their homes. Reciting wording specific to a particular set of religio...

Resurrection It is quite incredulous, as a believer in Christ, to identify with anyone who does not perceive that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is real. It has therefore become the believer's reasonable service of duty to explain the resurrection and to assure the understanding that the re...

Martin Luther and John Calvin were both very important leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Although they were both against the Roman Catholic Church, they brought about very different ideas in religion. Martin Luther founded the group that are today known as Lutherans. He was ordaine...