Essays on Religion Page 91

In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Polytheism is violently introduced to Christianity. Even though the folk’s faith of polytheism accepts the Christian’s beliefs, and the Christians come in peace, they were bound to hold a difference because of their spiritual differences. This is because of the major clangs in the two faiths….

            Muslim establishments could be traced back to the AD when Berbers conquered Spain after waging war against them.  Spain is a small nation that is located in South Western Europe somewhere on the Iberian Peninsula.  Sometimes back in the 8th Century, the Berber Muslims conquered the Iberian Peninsula after launching a massive conquest on…

The “Bush Doctrine” represents the foreign policy principles of the United States federal government under the administration of President George W. Bush. Although the phrase was never explicitly referred to or defined as a cohesive plan, political scientists coined the Bush Doctrine in order to package these principles into the agenda of the Bush administration….

The Khmer empire of Cambodia, extending from its capital, Angkor to present-day Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam, is credited with the creation of extraordinary art and architecture in the sixth to the sixteenth centuries CE.  Some of the world’s most glorious traditions of sculpture and architecture are still represented at Angkor and throughout Cambodia to reflect…

As my text, I am using the book of Haggai 2:23: “In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel,, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.” Thus, the messianic promise…

Ever since the beginning of time our reality has been based on the conflict between good and evil. From the story of Adam and Eve to modern day and everything done by the human race has been a battle between these two. Many theologians and scholars have tried to argue the creation of evil. They…

What Difference Does It Make That God Is Immutable? What difference does it make to us that God is immutable? Immutability is a key attribute of God and without that He wouldn’t even be God. It would be hard to have a personal relation ship with Him. As well as our relationship suffering our knowledge…

I find the plants “ The Swing ” and “ The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa ” great chef-d’oeuvres with interesting historical and cultural backgrounds and stylistic characteristics which need to be penetrated into in order to uncover the differences and similarities of these outstanding plants. Frequently at historiographers underlined that during Baroque the Roman Catholic…

In Chapter Ten. when Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates the transmutation of Roger Chillingworth from an unoffending adult male to a leech-like character seeking retaliation on his host. Dimmesdale. the writer implements comparings along with specific word pick to qualify Chillingworth. His personality in the reader’s eyes metamorphoses into one of a demonic parasite due to Hawthorne’s…

Later in his life he was known as Gautama. He traveled with a guru for a while and then he practiced as asceticism. He did these two things to find enlightenment. These things did not lead to enlightenment so he ate and sat down to meditate under a fig tree. He received enlightenment through a…