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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

The bible states many different opinions and "facts" on predestination. I say "facts" because that is what one is led to believe that the bible teaches. In one area the bible says that a certain number was chosen at the start and that the number will neither increase nor decre...

There are hundreds of religions present in the modern world today. The differences in these religions are very distinct, but there is one thing that ties them all together: the presence of a higher power. Because there are so many differences in these religions, people may think that the differenc...

Throughout his book \'The Prince,\' by Niccolò Machiavelli nurtures the idea that a ruler should be both loved and feared, of which it is better to be feared. \"Love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for the advantage; but fea...

"When I'm God, Everyone Dies" Authors devote considerable time to generating appropriate titles. The Holy Scriptures commence with our Creator's molding of the universe and the Earth. In these ordained beginnings, Earth was "Without form, and void; and darkness is upon the face of the deep" (Gen...

The book God's Chinese Son by Jonathan D. Spence is a clever inside look at the effects had on a society by a colonial trade port enterprise. I liked the way that at the beginning of the book it seems as though there are a lot of unrelated topics, but by the end they each are woven together into...