Religion Essays

In the days of the prophets rich people were unfair in the ways they treated common people. The rich people took the poor people to court trials in order to take their money away. The rich people gave bribes to the judges so that the judges would make decisions in …

1. Summary: After listing the name of the book and author, summarize the book concisely in 500 “tight” words (no more than 2 pages). Prove that you comprehend the reading by writing a no-nonsense summary. The summary is not a commentary or listing of topics, but rather a heartfelt, condensed, …

A worldview is simply a blueprint, a pattern, or a guide to how we, as humans, see the world and interpret our lives. A Christian worldview has the same premise but sees God as the Alpha and the Omega. Our whole sense of being is based upon the belief in …

“Killing is always wrong” This statement can be seen as very controversial as many people could believe that certain aspects of killing can be justified, however there’s a vast majority of the population who would not believe that killing is acceptable in anyway because it is against the law. Killing …

What Motivated Vladimir I to convert to Christianity and how did the new religion change the culture of Eastern Slavs? Paganism was a mental mindset of the Eastern Slavs living in a world where a majority of the European countries surrounding them had already converted to a monastic religion. Vladimir …

Q.) ‘An individuals interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging.’ -Discuss this view with detailed reference to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your choosing. Belonging is a natural force within all individuals; it relies on a sense …

For these 2 distinct projects, imagine you are writing a series of short articles for a Bible Dictionary. As we have seen in our study, Bible dictionaries are useful tools to learn more about the books, people, and places we encounter in Scripture. Your task will be to write: 1 …

In Search of the Spiritual Father Thomas Keating, the abbot of St. Joseph’s Abbey, couldn’t help noticing the attraction that the exotic religious practices of the East held for many young Roman Catholics (Adler 1). He was a Trappist monk, so meditation was second nature, but he kept thinking there …

Fay’s concern for those reading the book will have one of two results: those who only talk about the lost or those who talk to the lost. Fays desire of those reading the book will be engaged in witnessing to the lost. Fay writes, “We must realize if we don’t …

Langston Hughes’s “Salvation” Langston Hughes described an event in his youth that had a huge impact on his outlook of the world for the rest of his years. At the age of thirteen Langston Hughes doubted the faith and being “saved from sin” as he describes his disbelief in Christ. …