The Holy Trinity Of Masaccio
.... at the work is standing in. The adjustment
of the spectator to the pictured space is one of the first steps in the
development of illusionistic painting. Illusionistic painting fascinated
many artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The proportions in this painting are so numerically exact that one
can actually calculate the numerical dimensions of the chapel in the
background. The span of the painted vault is seven feet, and the depth is
nine feet. "Thus, he achieves not only s .....
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Victory
.... that Christ had won a victory here. The reason is
because of all of the lifes that he saved and will later be saved. In
Romans 5 it says that Jesus died for All Sinners! We are all sinners so
his death was for all.
When Jesus says that "It is finished", he can also be reffering to the
older predictions of Christs' life. There is one in particular that it
might have been talking about in Isaiah. That is the one in which Isaiah
talks of the life of Jesus and the crusifiction, in very short and br .....
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"Pope And Adult Web Sites Don't Mix."
.... of this, the IEG has every right to compose a new site revealing church hypocrisies.
The pope has been the symbol of the closest thing to God in many Catholics' eyes. Unfortunately, some non-Catholics feel it necessary to degrade this symbol for beliefs of their own. I believe that even though both sides had a case, the victor should have been, and was, the Catholic Archdiocese and the pope. I guess my next question is, "Will Clinton proceed with a Confession during his private audience with Pope Jo .....
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Canada's Religion History
.... insecurities and tensions brought forth by the changing times of the turn of the century.
In mid-nineteenth century Canada, the Jewish population consisted of approximately one thousand people most of whom were the direct descendants of either French or English colonists. It was an era of tranquility for Canadian Jews as the standard of living was high and the Jews of early Canada were treated well. These early Jewish settlers were considered ‘almost equal’ to their Anglo-Saxon or Catholic counterpart .....
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Theme: The Bible
.... text, as God's dealings with mankind become more personal and unique. The concept of G-d's covenant develops throughout the bible as G-d reconciles mankind. This can first be seen with G-d's dealing with Adam and Eve. G-d had decreed that if Adam and Eve were to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad " you shall die" (g 2:17). However, later it is seen that when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and bad, He did not enforce the death penalty. Rather, He allowed man a se .....
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Islam
.... collected. At first these were just remembered and spread by word of mouth. Later they were captured in writing, to serve as an additional guide for believers, along with the Koran. It was Muhammad's contention that Christianity had departed from belief in God's message as revealed in their Scriptures. God had sent many prophets, among them Abraham, who is considered the founder of the faith for Islam, as he is also for and Christianity. The Koran, using sources in the older Scriptures and later traditio .....
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Saint Thomas Aquinas: Proof Of The Existence Of God
.... the way in which they came into the world in order to accelerate the journey into the next world .
The views of the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans have been well-documented. All three of these ancient societies believed in numerous Gods, who each held domain over certain aspects of that particular culture. These Beings were represented as being somewhat human, extremely powerful, and sometimes at odds with one another - even to the point of warring between themselve .....
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Gnosticism
.... Gnostics except from the writings of their adversaries.
One of the main things which separated the Gnostics from orthodox Christians was the mysticism of their beliefs. It began with their views of God and creation. They viewed the One which they called the true God as having a feminine part which was the Spirit. In accord, they also held that Jesus came from God and the Spirit to form the Trinity.
In the Gnostic version of creation of the world the Spirit of God is referred to as the Wisdom of God .....
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The Essenes Of Qumran
.... of martyrdom and separation from pagan society, which dominated so much of the Church's thought in the first three centuries A.D.
Qumran, the home of the Essenes, was a settlement in Palestine on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. The Essenes lived in caves within the cliffs bordering the sea. "After….Qumran was carefully excavated, archaeologists were able to identify some rooms that had been used for study and worship, others apparently used for communal meals, a spacious chamber with ink .....
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Religion In Ancient India And Rgypt
.... first circumnavigation of Africa, and he attempted to link the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea by a canal. Ahmose II was the last pharaoh of the 26th dynasty to rule Egypt. He had a long and prosperous reign between 570-526 BC. Six months after his death, Persia invaded and took over Egypt.
The period around 560 BC in India was ruled by the Maghuda dynasty which was known to develop a caste system and yet have a laid back lifestyle. It was a strong dynasty ruled by Bimbisora (Shrenik) in Biher. Bimbis .....
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Brief Look At Jewish History
.... The victories of the German armies in the early years of World War II brought the majority of European Jewry under the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main city. Hitler's plan of genocide was carried out with efficiency. The total number of Jews exterminated has been calculated at around 5,750,000.
In Warsaw ,where approximately 400,000 Jews had once been concentrated,was reduced to a population of 60 .....
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Resurrection Of Jesus
.... but wonder. The mystery of resurrection can be traced to the historical life of Jesus. Through Jesus came strong faith from the Jewish people, this came to be from his good teachings and preaching. That is why today many approach the term resurrection in conjunction with Jesus.
In the book, The reality of Jesus we come across a section known as the "The Pauline Evidence". This particular section interested me because Paul makes a contrast between two types of bodies. One type is the physical bo .....
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Buddhism
.... with a number of astrologers, all of whom declared that the newborn prince would become a great king and that he would rule the world in truth and righteousness. Among these astrologers, there was one who declared that if the prince were to see a sick person, an old person, a corpse, and a world renouncing ascetic, he would become dissatisfied with life and become a wandering monk in order to seek final peace.
King Shuddhodana decided to prevent his son from running into any of these four sights and sur .....
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Baptism
.... word “baptism”, comes from the Greek work baptizo, meaning to dip or immerse. However in our English translations of the Bible, this Greek word is transliterated (the Greek letters are replaced with English equivalents) instead of translated. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words defines “baptisma” (translated “baptism”) as “consisting of the process on immersion, submersion, and emergence.”
Is water needed to be immersed?
Baptism does not always mean “dunking in water”, but it do .....
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The Muslim Pilgrimage To Mecca
.... purpose of pilgrimage. After becoming a muhrim, fingernails and hair cannot be cut, perfume and cologne are not allowed to be worn and sexual activities are not allowed to be performed. Those are just some minute processes of many, which enable a person to achieve purification during the pilgrimage.
On the first day of the pilgrimage, thousands of Muslims join each other by walking in a circles (circumambulating) around the Ka'ba seven times. The Ka'ba also is known as "The House of Allah", and is ve .....
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