Literature on Religion Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

169 samples

“Faith-Sharing” by Fox and Morris

The three concepts that I have learned from the text include the meaning of faith, the motivation for faith sharing, and the appreciation of the meaning of faith sharing.
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Christianity and Sacred Scripture

The absence of competition made Christians to believe that the books contained in the Bible were the only one available and therefore the Christian story was of authoritative and foolproof singularity. All these complications lead [...]
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Defining God: The Arguments of Elizabeth Johnson

As mentioned by Johnson, women's influence is already felt in different aspects of religion and, particularly, in the one dealing with the "central issue of the image and concept of the divine, the One who [...]
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Understand the Meaning of Myth

Even though there is no clarity of some of the religious practices that are being followed by the people, the religious faithful has denied the relation of their beliefs to be mythical.
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Validity of the Book of Mormons

The Book of Mormon is faced with a lot of criticism due to the lack of archeological evidence supporting the authenticity of the material in it.
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Biblical Account of Creation in Genesis in School

The theory of Creation Science is an argument that is directed towards the establishment of the idea that there is existence of God, and God is the creator of the universe in accordance to creation [...]
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The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton

Actually, the core of the symbolic relationships which are the allegory and nightmare of that some elements of the story can be perceived by are referred to as the more shallow surface meanings in the [...]
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Herman Melville: Moby Dick or The Whale

It seems to me that the story is called for teaching people not to escape God's commands in order not to experience sufferings, as "we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, [...]
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World Literature. Where Does Evil Come From?

In The Crucible, Miller presents a historically accurate, dramatized recreation of the events in 1692, what he calls "one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history" that led to the prosecution of [...]
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Brothers in Bible: Love & Hatred in Old Testament

Divided into two sections The Old Testament and The New Testament - the fundamental theme of the Bible is an expose on God's nature and the nature of the human family via key biblical figures [...]
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Summaries of the Books of the Old Testament

The second book is on the Exodus, in which the enslavement of the Israelites or the Hebrews have been described as well as the story of Moses, the son of Jacob's son Levi.
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Three Texts on Islam

On one side, the history and the birth of Islam as a religion and how the three books present it is looked at; on the second side, the implication of Islam to the rest of [...]
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“The Places You Go” a Book by Urias Beverly

The most important insight that I got from the book "The Places you go" is that pastors should be flexible in both the way in which they deal with people and the means by which [...]
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Integrating Psychology and Christianity

The author introduces the topics of the worldview and outlines the four elements of the Christian worldview beliefs, viz.creation, fall, redemption, and the consummation.
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“Esther” by George Frideric Handel: Biblical Legend

It provides a short account of the story's and the opera's contents, analyzes the role of music as a depicter of the composer's perception, and demonstrates how Handel changed the original story's perspective to create [...]
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Controversy in Society: Spiritual But Not Religious

One of the followers of this movement is Sam Harris, who refers to the fact that spirituality, along with the assistance of meditation, helps him become happy and feel that the world is a part [...]
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“The Great Cosmic Mother” by Barbara Mor

This is seen in The Great Cosmic Book where political, psychological and sociological roles of the Goddess or the Divine Mother are described. Because of this, Mor have contributed to a controversial subject that is [...]
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Suffering Example: Job’ Biblical Story

Job was a good person and innocent in the eyes of the people and in the face of God. For Christian nurses it is their responsibility and the call of God to serve the individual [...]
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“City of 201 Gods” a Book by Jacob Olupona

For a long time, the sacred King had adhered to the Yoruba religious traditions, and any change in the conventional belief systems would significantly impact most of the states.
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Living Buddha, Living Christ

It is not enough to show that all religions are constituted by the same elements, it is more important to make people long for equality.
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Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples

The rest of the book continues to equip readers with the tools that would take them back to the duty of ministering and making more disciples.
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Characteristics of Irish Hagiography

A particular interesting demonstration of prayer vengeance in the hagiography is the combination of prayer and fasting with vigil to summon retribution.
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