the buildings in the Holy City survived intact to this day, notably the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; meanwhile, the remains of others are just now being discovered. The Nea was one of the buildings left in ruins and buried under the city. Several centuries after its demise, archaeologists and historians can study and emphasize the structure’s architectural feats, purpose, and place in the history of the Holy City. The Nea Church is a religious edifice that
Christianity in Africa is not a recent happening nor is it a product of colonialism if we go back to the very time of the apostle. Christianity in most area was confronted during the centuries after the struggle by Islam, the Christian religion suffered in some measure, but did not disappear. Christianity has been flourishing on the northern part of this continent for years before Islam was born. Christianity in North Africa seemed to have been well founded deeply entrenched and firmly led. My research
Nicole Eustace’s “The Sentimental Paradox” examines the roles of emotion and European conceptualizations of masculinity and sentiment on the British colonization of Pennsylvania, particularly after the French and Indian War. Many eighteenth-century British and Euro-American men struggled to reconcile Enlightenment notions of humanity with the conflicts that arose along the North American frontier with Native American peoples. Europeans claimed that their sentimentality and empathy differentiated
Michale J. Kruger is professor of New Testament and academic dean at Reformed Theological Seminary, is the author of the Gospels of the Savior, and the coauthor of Gospel Fragments and the Hersey of Orthodoxy. His research on the Christian origins has made him a trusted authority on the development of the New Testament canon. In Canon Revisited, Kruger looks deeper than the traditional surveys of councils and creeds, mining the biblical text itself for direction in understanding what the original
Name: Iyeh Ocheni Class: 11B Word Count: Global Perspectives Individual Research Project Geography has had a significant impact on belief systems. Has globalization spread belief systems across the world and brought people into conflict? Contents Introduction Why I devised the question Geography and Religion Global perspectives national and local perspectives possible scenarios impact on personal perspectives conclusion bibliography Introduction I would like to begin this report by defining
The topic I chose for this research paper is “In what ways does the life of Christ, his death burial and resurrection for the sins of the world give justification to discriminate or practice prejudice? I plan to examine how the life of Christ his death and resurrection for the sins of the world gave people justification to discriminate and practice prejudice against one another. I will critique two sources that roughly address this question. Leo D. Lefebure, “Violence in the New Testament and the
interesting second century Christian and also the most detrimental to the development of early Christianity and his name was Marcion. In this essay I will be explaining who Marcion is and why he was so important for the development of early Christianity. To start off my research paper my first resource was by Peter Head, The Foreign God And The Sudden Christ : Theology And Christology In Marcion 's Gospel Redaction, in which he talks about how many people back in the second century would not call Marcion
the world. It is also the world’s second biggest religion right after Christianity. Islam has approximately 1.6
The authorship of John allows one to understand Jesus by an actual and reliable witness to the origins of Jesus ministry, death and resurrection. This extraordinary piece of work is also reflected by the early church fathers. The attempt of this paper will assert that the evidence for authorship of John is more convincing that discrediting. Authorship The gospel of john has not seen the last of debates as to the authenticity of authorship, date and location. There does not seem to be a compelling
THE FOUNDATION OF ORTHODOXY AND THE CANON A Paper Presented to Dr. Nickens of Liberty University Lynchburg, VA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Church History CHHI 301 by Whitney J. Fitzwater April 6, 2015 INTRODUCTION The history of the Church has seen key event and movements that influenced the New Testament canon. The way by which the New Testament cannon was formed as it was is a subject of debate to this day. To truly know and begin