Culture and Religion

Throughout the ages, the Christian worldview has been one of the most popular and substantive religions in the world. There are many topics within the Christian worldview and have an impact on millions of lives today. From the strong belief in God and Jesus Christ, from the standpoints of human nature and restoration, to the benefits of the Christian faith as well as the influence on a Christian’s behavior. The Christian worldview has proven to be a successful religion when it comes to personal faith and worship. There is many key components within the Christian worldview that has been many topics within our world today.

Religion was involved with many things in a person’s life. It affects things like social status, relationships, the economy, culture, and politics. The complex ideas of religion and politics have shaped societies. The Puritans have set their goal to make their society and way of living connected to God in every way, shape, and form. In the seventeenth century this standard to keep God by your side has deeply affected politics and lawmaking, and has even caused some people to be continuously persecuted. From the strength of their religious beliefs stemmed these radical ideas, which deeply affected lives in the 17th century. Though these ideas were a way of life at one point in time, if these ideas were applied to our government today the

Christianity is a faith based religious tradition, of which the follower is considered to be a Christian adherent. Thus, being a living tradition, Christianity is continually subject to change in accordance to the needs of the adherent and reaffirming the Christian tradition within a contemporary context. The aspects, which attribute the present existence of Christianity and its dynamism therein, include sacred texts and writings, ritual and ceremonies, beliefs and believers, and ethics. Ultimately, the aforementioned characteristics strive to form and continually validate answers to the enduring questions of life through a process of change, which simultaneously highlights Christianity as a living tradition.

Living religious traditions are integrated meaning systems which provide adherents with comprehensive and distinctive answers to the enduring questions of human existence. Religious traditions are ultimately shaped and reformed by the actions of the individuals who practices the faith. In a contemporary Christian environment, prominent practices to have a significant contribution to Christianity as a living religious tradition are Baptism and the works of Pope John XXIII. The significant practice of Baptism, as a central element of Christianity, is an initiation of adherents to a “discipleship” with Christ as well as a reinforcement of the community’s relationship with God. Furthermore, the development and expression of the Christian tradition

The Philippines is a multi-ethnic country and is densely influenced by the Spanish. Roman Catholic is a common religion practiced within my family and are educated in strict, Catholic private schools. They celebrated religious activities such as Holy Week and Santa Cruzan in honor of the patron of saints. Ernaline was born in Manila, Philippines on October 22, 1973. She attended Angelicum School at age 13 and graduated high school at 16 years old. Her dad was a marine engineer, earning up to $80,000 a year, and her mother was a housewife. Ernesto studied marine engineering at Philippine Maritime Institute. Her father was deliberately away traveling the world and came to see them for only about three times a year while her mother tended to all their needs with the help of maids. I am raised as a devout Catholic and currently

This Web quest is designed for you to gain an appreciation that language and religion are essential elements of culture.  Answer the following questions to the best of your ability on a separate sheet of paper.

Church buildings, musical instruments, ministers’ attire, choir robes, hymns, names of converts, schools and curriculums had Americans’ religious, cultural, and economic trademark. The Christianity that addressed issues of life in the American cultural context was transplanted in different parts of the world. Unlike the transition of the Hebraic-Christianity from the Jewish culture to the Gentile world in the first century, which developed its own unique theological, cultural, and leadership identity in a short period of time, the phenomenal growth of Christianity in the majority world has been largely influenced by the dominance of American Christianity. As the result, we have Christian faith that is not well anchored on local theology. And to most of the churches in the majority world, up until recently,

The purpose of this book is meant to create a foundation for Christian lifestyles. It addresses the origin of Christian values, and portrays the evolution of Christian worldviews throughout history. It briefly explains the biblical narrative and develops ideas in which Christians are able to live out their faith and deal with other worldviews existing in our world today.

One of the ongoing struggles for the church and Christianity is with culture. Questions have always surfaced about where we should stand on issues or whether it is permissible to isolate ourselves in all areas of life. Shaping A Christian Worldview suggests that hiding is not the preferred option, rather it is our duty to transform our modern culture.

One of the most common themes in Fr. Deck’s works is the importance of culture in regards to religion; he talks specifically Hispanic-American culture but does not shirk the importance of other cultures. For example, at the National Symposium on Adolescent Catechesis Deck espoused the importance of culture in regards to the evangelization of Hispanic Adolescents. He drew attention to the lack of any specialized attention towards Hispanic culture as a whole despite the fact that the church has constantly noted the importance of the evangelization of Hispanic youth. Deck goes on to argue that the Catholic Church is experiencing issues with evangelizing because their methods have become sterile and ineffective due them never changing. Fr. Deck

Scholars support the argument that Christian worship is definitely associate with culture. A research on church history must also consider the cultural aspects of the early church period. Indeed, cultural influences affected the worship life of the early church. Furthermore, culture involves a style of life where tradition, religion, and moral values are particularly interrelated.

Christianity is a well-developed religion, which was formed out of Judaism during the time of the first century. There are a multitude of branches within in the religion of Christianity with some of the major ones being Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. Even within the major branches there are even smaller subcategories to which people claim to be their religion of choice. During my research I was able to really find out in greater details more about this marvelous form of religion and why it has the most people of any religion world wide currently adhering to it. With nearly 2.2 billion people claiming to be Christians, Christianity’s beliefs that derive from the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ have stayed true since the formation of their religion. I was fortunate enough to interview Eli Riddle who is a practicing Evangelist and provided me with a vast amount of information about his denomination. Throughout my paper it is my goal to help give a better understanding of the History, Sacred Texts, Worship, Sacraments, Life after Death, as well as a few other intriguing topics covering the broad religion of Christianity while also giving insight about

heart of the Christian faith and at its source of its traditions in Scripture is

Every culture has different beliefs on certain issues such as death, gender, and spiritual practices. Cultural beliefs influence the way patients understand health concepts and how they take care of themselves. Therefore, knowing a patients’ background and culture is a helpful key to solving certain problems. The Hispanic culture is an old and very unique culture that has strong beliefs concerning death, dying, gender, family, and spiritual practices.

At present, these Filipinas are showing some positive changes with their spiritual journey. Enlightened by the truth of God, they all have come to hope and pray for their respective families to come to the knowledge of God, come to know Jesus and believe the gospel of grace, and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior in order that they may likewise experience the saving power of God through Jesus. Their Japanese husband and children do not know the creator God, because they are led to believe of their many gods that Shinto teaches. Their families likewise have heard about Christianity and know about Jesus, but they are not interested in Christianity. Therefore, these Filipinas are asking me what they should do in order that their own families and friends become interested in Christianity and be led to believe and trust and accept their Christian faith. First, I made them (Filipinas) to understand the superiority of Christian culture as children of God. In addition, I