Religious morality

to propositions. Then he moves on to differentiate truth and logic with religious claims: “while belief certainly includes more than mental assent to proposition, belief always includes believing something, and that something is a proposition.” It is imperative to note, just like any other claim religion should be looked at in the same way. Nash disagrees with W.C. Smith also. Nash noted, “Smith’s way of handling religious “truth” might appear to solve a serious problem for pluralists (the problem

Stetzer, Ed, and Mike Dodson. Comeback Churches. Nashville: B&H, 2007 Introduction According to research done over the years, most churches, once formed, hit the ground running only to decline after a period of time. there are many reason as to why this happens. This is one of the concerns for the “Comeback Churches” by Ed Stetzer and mike Dodson. Typically, many of the churches start very strong. They go ahead and have good periods of growth but later find themselves declining and finally losing

images are subjects of miracles throughout the late 13th to 16th centuries. Two of the most important ramifications of materiality include the accessibility of the religious images and manifestation of the miracles. In this essay, I will explain how the physical properties of immagini miracolose create an approachable atmosphere to religious figures for the common people and how the physical properties directly influence the ways in which miracles manifest. By framing

third of the inhabitants, even of this province, are of English descent. Wherefore I reprobate the phrase of parent or mother country applied to England only, as being false, selfish, narrow and ungenerous” (Paine, 23-24). After decades of civil and religious persecution in Europe, Puritans among others fled to New England in search of a land where they could live without fear. This influx of individuals that arrived in the colonies were not only composed of Englishmen, but of many individuals from different

Hypocrisy and Modern Social Justice Culture The past 3-4 years have been very strange for culture regarding Social Justice and civil rights activism. As if from nowhere we now have feminists who care more about how men sit on a train than how Women are treated as chattel under certain traditionalist practices of Islam, activists who proclaim that all whites are inherently racist despite what they or any others do or say, and Antifascist organizations who brutalize any and all who have views counter

The Painted Bird, written by Jerzy Kosinski, follows the perspective of a young boy throughout World War II. To keep him protected and to decrease the threat of being taken by Nazi soldiers, his parents send him to another village under the care of an elderly woman. After his foster mother dies, the six year old boy is forced to travel from village to village in search of food and shelter. Along the way he finds temporary homes, with some hosts kinder than others, and is met by brutal peasants suspicious

which had a secret trunk, not visible to anybody not knowing it was there. He said he bought this car, praying God would use it someday. When we got to border control, they checked nearly every square inch of the car, in search for any signs of religious writings. Seeing they found none, they let us through into North Korea. We didn't really know what to do when we got in because we didn't think we would get in. We stopped at a hotel to check in, and then went to get some dinner. Thanks to Seo-yeon’s

framework to Hobby Lobby reveals how granting the religious exemption to closely held corporations can not only coexist with the government’s interests of making sure female employees have access to the four controversial contraceptives, but it also best ensures this interest. For the sake of argument, let’s first consider what would happen without the exemption. Closely held corporations would have three choices. They could either ignore their religious convictions, provide incomplete healthcare coverage

Possibilities and challenges of interreligious and secular dialogue in today’s world. According to Zago, globalization was imminent and interreligious contact unavoidable, leading to religious pluralism. The tendency was increasing and creating challenge to mission, which would create not only meetings but also clashes among various religions. He anticipates the need of attitudes and initiatives for interreligious dialogue, but this “Dialogue, however, must not eliminate proclamation that remains

“Syncretism” Summary In this essay on “Syncretism” Anita Maria Leopold gives an overview on syncretism which is the blending or melding of different religious traditions (695). Anita focuses on the history of syncretism and the problems which occurred such as theologians being accused of wrongly performing syncretism, she focused on the definition of syncretism and anti-syncretism and lastly the study of transforming religion into three leveled categories social, semiotic and cognitive. Syncretism