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- 791: Rasputin The Mad Monk
- ... some of the remaining heretical sects of the Old Believers. During this time, thousands of Old Believers were persecuted by the Patriarch Nikon, as he attempted to cleanse Russia of these sects and enforce Orthodox Christianity. Those who escaped fled to Siberia and continued to establish churches and communities. Nikon's rapid persecution of these sects weakened the Orthodox Church and gave rise to groups such as the Khlysty, which Rasputin ...
- 792: A Study Of Catholicism
- ... Church. "Christian realism" is critical thinking in the context of the Catholic Church. Realists take reality in the context in which it is in history. Christian realism is based on the contexualist outlook on life. "...Christianity itself is mediated by meaning," says McBrien. McBrien makes a good point when he says, "Christian realism also rejects the notion that clear and distinct ideas...are equivalent to the real itself." Ideas are never ...
- 793: Religion Through The Ages Has
- ... Catholic Church in the 16th century presents the most interesting scenario in discussing the role of religion and how it either unites or divides people. For the first time, moreso than Rome's conversion to Christianity, a religious division was taking place within a relatively homogeneous society. Religion perhaps is predominately viewed by most contemporaries as problematic given the current divisions among many Catholics and Protestants in Ireland and the continuing ...
- 794: Aboriginal Beliefs
- ... a definite distinctiveness from any other religion in the world. Thousands of years ago, Australian Aboriginal people were living in accordance with their dreamtime beliefs- today, a majority of the Aboriginal community profess allegiance to Christianity, and only 3% still adhere to traditional beliefs. These beliefs have provided the Aboriginal people with guidance and perspective on all aspects of life. There were many variants to these beliefs and practises throughout the ...
- 795: Salem Whichcraft Trials
- ... brought from Barbados, John Indian and his wife Tituba. Tituba was familar with magic, fortune-telling, incantation, and necromacy (sprit communication with the dead) from her native West Indies. (10) Tituba had been converted to Christianity, and was a sincere church goer even thought the Puritans considered where she came from a place of heathen voodoo faith. (11) Titubas magic was a fascination to the neighbor children and during the ...
- 796: Grapes Of Wrath And Jim Casy
- ... rediscovered nature, he was a new man with a new-found faith. (Eventually Christ was no longer a Jew and strayed from the traditional Hebrew idea of God. Casy's beliefs did not precisely follow Christianity.) Like Christ, Casy was jailed and later aroused the antagonism of the people in authority and was brutally slain. He died, like Christ saying to his crucifiers, "You don' know what you're a-doin ...
- 797: Gatsby S Sacrifice
- ... to the Romans to be crucified. Fitzgerald creates many parallels between Jay Gatsby and Jesus Christ in order to establish a powerful message about humanity, and in this message he communicates his own feelings about Christianity. Before Gatsby tells Nick about his past; his travels through Europe, Montenegro, and his Oxford days, he said, "'I'll tell you God's truth.' His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by ...
- 798: Karshish By Robert Browning
- ... pride are insignificant in comparison with love, because love is for both old and young, able and weak, affects the very brutes and birds (227- 9). Another tenet of Browning is the intuitive belief in Christianity and that sufferings are for the education of the soul. This is present in Karshish in that he suffers much but does expound upon them because he accepts them as the education of his soul ...
- 799: New Atlantis By Francis Bacon
- ... study of Works and the Creatures of God" (Bacon, 436). Wonder at religious questions was natural, but, permitted free reign, would destroy science by absorbing the minds and concerns of men. The singular advantage of Christianity is its irrationality. The divine soul was a matter for religion to handle. The irrational soul was open to study and understanding by man using the methods of science. The society of the NEW ATLANTIS ...
- 800: Natural Law Theory
- ... found in every person. Also, the emotion of passion is a very desirable trait in the Bible. I think emotions are one way God tries to tell us what is just. Bibliography Bainton, Roland H. Christianity. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1987. Berkhof, Louis. The History of Christian Doctrines. Baker Book House: Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1990. Compton*s Encyclopedia. *St. Thomas Aquinas* Britannica Inc.: Chicago, 1989. vol. 2. pg. 520. Compton*s Encyclopedia ...
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