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  • Known As Constantine The Great
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    Flavius Valerius Constantius, also known as Constantine the Great, is believed to have been born sometime between the years 274 and 288. He was born in Na issus, which is now known as Nish Serbia, to the Roman officer Constantius Chlor us. Constantius belonged to one of the Leading families of Moe sia and his mother was a niece of the capable and soldierly Claudius, the conqueror of the Goths. Constantine's mother Helena is said to have been the daughter of an innkeeper o Drepanum, and later bec...
  • Christianity And The Revolution
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    Christianity and the American Revolutionary War Harry Stout points out in the lead article, How Preachers Incited Revolution, 'it was Protestant clergy who propelled colonists toward independence and who theologically justified war with Britain' (n. pay). According to Cassandra Niemczyk in her article in this issue of Christian History ' (the Protestant Clergy) were known as 'the Black Regiment' (n. pay). Furthermore, as the article Holy Passion for Liberty shows, 'Americans were quick to discer...
  • Tillich's Ultimate Concern
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    Creed or Chaos Dorothy L. Sayers looks deeply into the controversial topic of the church's downfall including how and why dogma plays a vital role in ones distrust in the spiritual strength of Christianity. Creed or Chaos focuses on dogma as such a doctrine of faith proclaimed by the church and it's misinterpretation as an ideology. In The Greatest Drama Ever Staged is The Official Creed of Christendom, Sayers specifically references the assurance of the demise of the church as a result of the p...
  • Pope And Other High Religious Leaders
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    Medieval times were shaped greatly by religious and secular motives to form centralized power and control. The religious leaders, in particular, were very influential in this process of centralization. The methods used to attain this power were directed at various aspects of their influence in order to realize the greatest control possible. The concepts of power and control are difficult to define because they present themselves in a variety of different ways in a variety of contexts. The Pope h...
  • Movement Throughout The Christian Church
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    Religious and Social Visions of Malcolm X and Charles Sheldon As with all individuals we all have different thoughts on what the world needs. Some people take a sut el approach in pressing the beliefs, where as others are very aggressive about it. Charles Sheldon a Christian who tried to push a movement throughout the Christian church based on what Christ would do. Individuals in the church and the community viewed Sheldon's movement as a strong and sometimes "impossible" feat. However, it was n...
  • Sexual Indecencies Catholic Church Leaders
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    What Would Jesus Do? Between 1951 and 1991, forty-one Catholic priests in Chicago alone were charged with sexual misconduct (Philip Jenkins). This number has only increased over the past ten years, with the recent valiancy among Catholic women and children to come forth about sexual indecencies committed against them. But while the charges against the priests may be relatively new, the corruption within the clergy is certainly not. Priests' abuse of their position can be traced back to the origi...
  • Christian Religion In Japan
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    Two Empires In Japan by John M.L. Young and The Christian Confrontation with Shinto Nationalism by Kun Sam Lee were the two books I used for this topic. The former, an intimate 100 year chronicle of the persecution by the Asian government with their demands that all people bow in Kyu jo-yohji, (worshipping the Imperial House from afar); and the struggle of the Japanese Christians in times of compromise and triumph under such totalitarian pressure. The latter a more detailed historical account of...
  • Paul To The City Of Corinth
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    First Corinthians In 146 B.C. the Roman general Mummies crushed Greece's attempt towards independence by completely destroying the city of Corinth. For a hundred years the area of the city laid in ruins. Eventually Julius Caesar sent a colony of veterans and descendants of Freedmen to rebuild the city, and in a short period of time a new Corinth was created from the old ruins (Ancient Corinth p. 20). During the rebuilding of Corinth Caesar was assassinated and reconstruction was continued by Emp...
  • Christian Faith Encounters The Religions Of Korea
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    The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern Orthodoxy cannot be understood apart from Christian Hellenism, and Roman Catholicism is a product of Latin civilization, so the Unification Church greatly profited from the religious development of it...
  • Roman Catholic Church
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    The church has influenced various issues in our society. The issues which have been influenced are abortion, divorce, homosexuality, and poverty. But before we look at how these issues were influenced lets first look at some of the aspects of the church. The churches mass is made up of two parts- the liturgy of the word and the liturgy of the Eucharist for the duration of which the Holy Communion is rejoiced. Mass is the center of worship that Catholics participate in. Catholics are supposed to ...
  • Final Segment Of Bonhoeffer's Liberation Theology
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Liberation Theology Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theology of Liberation is a source of hope for the world's downtrodden, particularly in underdeveloped countries. From his theology of liberation has sprung emulators, and many liberation theologians sing his praises. Born out of an era of hate and war, his liberation theology contrasted Adolf Hitler's aims of violence and genocide. Bonhoeffer's four segments of theology, solidarity with the oppressed, a suffering God, non-religious...
  • Official Bible Of The Roman Catholic Church
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    The Spread of Christianity Offered: 1) Redemptions of sins, personal immortality, and future life where material adversities are absent. 2) Easy message from Jesus that everyone could understand. 3) Free of, cumbersome regulations (Judaism) and costly rituals (Mystery Cults) 4) Accessible to all- male, female, rich, poor, free, or a slave. 5) Its Historical Credibility- The fact that Jesus had lived among men and women and practiced the morality he preached. Roman Empire at the Time The was a la...
  • Orthodox And The Gnostics
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    Gnostics & Orthodox Christians It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor baptize, nor to offer the eucharist, nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function-least of all, in priestly office (p. 155). In the beginning of Christianity this was not the view towards women and even today's modern times many of these restrictions against women have been removed. Orthodox Christians placed many of these restrictions against women in th...
  • Grand Inquisitor In Dostoevsky's Story
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    As described in The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoevsky The writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Helen Ellerbe show substantial evidence that the orthodox Christians did in fact steal from humanity the divine freedom it was promised by Jesus Christ. This thesis is supported in Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" from his book The Brothers Karamazov. The dark side of Christian history by Helen Ellerbe also supports this theory. The Inquisition itself shows credibility to the theory that orthodox Christia...
  • Augustine's Christian Idea Of Just War
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    Andrew Holder Violence in Christianity Violence, it has been a main tool in the Christian arsenal since the middle ages. From the Crusades to the Inquisitions of Spain, violence is ever prevalent. Even in this day and age, intolerance and violence continue to be preached. But is this violence an instrument of God or man? Is violence an inherent part of this religion? Some would say that it is indeed built in to the very fabric of its being. The Old Testament is full of the smiting of infidels an...
  • Development Of Doctrine Presents To The Church
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    Is the idea of doctrinal development compatible with belief in the abiding truth of Christianity? The problem that the development of doctrine presents to the church is simple. On the one hand, Christianity is presented as containing the lasting and eternal truth of salvation and eternal life, and on the other hand, when the history of the church is studied, the details within which this truth is presented, have quite clearly changed. This problem is particularly exacerbated for those involved i...
  • Cultural Beliefs Of A Society The Artwork
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    Art, throughout the times have reflected, promoted and challenged the cultural beliefs of many different societies. To reflect a culture or society the artwork must create or suggest a particular impression of that era. To promote the cultural beliefs of a society the artwork must encourage and support the beliefs. For the artwork to challenge the beliefs it must question tradition. Gislebertus and Michelangelo promote and reflected the society and religion in which they belonged whereas Kruger ...
  • Christian Stevie Smith
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    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 so, as children mature into adults, they seldom doubt that which has been taught to them for so many years. English poet, Florence Margaret Smith, was not one of these individuals. Smith, more popularly k...
  • Door Before Sargeant
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    Nick Park 11/15/03 English 3/Intro to Lit On the Road Langston Hughes is a writer who had a very unique method of putting his thoughts into words. Undoubtedly, Hughes must have experienced a large amount of racism aimed at him during his time. On the Road is a story of an African-American man who tries to find a little humanity in the world, with Langston Hughes' voice one amongst the many others crying for freedom and equality. Sargeant, the protagonist, is first introduced while looking for sh...
  • Hughes Foreshadows The Sargeant Christ Conversation
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    Langston Hughes's short story "On the Road" begins and ends realistically enough: his protagonist, Sargeant, enters a strange town one winter's night during the Depression and finds himself without shelter, as many did during this era. Hughes gives Sargeant the additional burden of being an African-American in the "white" part of town; therefore, he faces the perfectly plausible obstacles of shelters that "drew the color line" and racist police officers who beat and imprison him. But despite the...

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