Essays on Religion Page 104

Central Issue in Debate Regarding Muslim FeminismFeminism or the concept of gender equality of women is an increasing ideology among the new generation of Muslim women in the most Muslim countries. There have been hot debates and discourse regarding about the identity and the role of the Muslim women to be played in the modern…

The growth of Christianity in the first four centuries AD and its transformation from being unknown to becoming a significant force in the Roman Empire has been credited to factors like divine intervention and supernatural occurrences. However, it is crucial to explore this phenomenon further and obtain a more thorough understanding of its intricacies. Rodney…

Christian worldview. The first is the question of origin, this explains such topic as how did life begin, and how did humans come to exist. The biblical worldview says that “everything that exists, including humans, is the result of God,” (Wider & Guttering, 2013). This can be proven by the following scriptures, Genesis 126 and…

There has been a growing debate on whether religious education should or should not be offered in public colleges. While some people view religious education as an important subject matter for students whereas some people oppose religious education because they are concerned about students being indoctrinated and confused about the values taught in college vs…

The Gods Must Be Crazy This film was a mash up of three separate stories – the journey of a Bushman to the “end of the world,” the romance between a researcher and a school teacher, and a group of revolutionaries fleeing persecution. The story begins with Xi and his tribe of Bushman members living…

Why Does God allow suffering? This question is probably as old as religion itself. It is a stumbling block for some of us, and for many more at given moments of tragedy. There are as many answers to this question as there are people who care to engage in theological dialogue. One understanding is that…

1. The unification of India came about when the Persian emperor Darius crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and conquered portions of northwestern India; there he established the kingdom of Gandhara in present-day Punjab. Achaemenid authority in India shed light on Persian techniques of administration to local rulers. A few centuries later, Alexander of Macedon crossed…

Would you trust him enough to be in a room alone with him? Many people would probably answer no to this question. They would assume he is a terrorist or part of a terrorist group. Why? The flaws he holds are all in how he looks. Just because he is a Muslim and people recognize…

“And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward”, I confess that, as a lifelong Catholic, I have never fully read the Bible. It’s quite astonishing, particularly since I attended Catholic School from kindergarten to eighth grade! Nevertheless, I have always expressed my faith in my own distinct manner. I hold a firm conviction that…

Being a lecture delivered at Methodist Theological Institute, Shagamu, on the 21st of June, 2013 by 11.00 am. Unveiling the Concept of Church Growth Biblical Principles or Missionary Strategies Introduction Tremendous Church Growth is going on in the world today. We live in the age of most rapid forward advantage of Christianity that history has…