Browsing by Subject "Christianity"
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(1995)Throughout history, mankind has always depended on the "scapegoat". In surveying the mythology of the past, Sir James George Frazer identifies and traces numerous instances of the paradigm. Moreover, Western thought and ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1951)
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(2011-02-22)Analyzing novels by Sheri Reynolds, Lee Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and Sue Monk Kidd, I argue that these authors challenge religious structures by dramatizing the struggle between love and ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1923)
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Thomas Aquinas has written on the topic of mercy and justice as virtues. I use his theories to outline an idea of how forgiveness is an act of mercy. I build off Glen Pettigrove’s Forgiveness and Love to define forgiveness. ...
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(2020-04-20)In March/April 2020 most churches around the world have been forced to close their doors due to the need for social distancing and local lock-downs in order to fight off the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The result was ...
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(2020-04-20)In March/April 2020 most churches around the world have been forced to close their doors due to the need for social distancing and local lock-downs in order to fight off the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The result was ...
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(1977)“The Fall in The Fall, Billy Budd and 'Young Goodman Brown'" deals with three concepts of the Fall of Man: 1. The nakedness of Adam and Eve. 2. The eating of the forbidden fruit. 3. The loss of innocence and the knowledge ...
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(1990)It is not simply the retelling of ancient tales of heroes at war with other heroes. It is a literature that describes the conflict of humankind with the powers of darkness and evil, and it belongs to an age in which nature ...
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(2015-12-16)This research thesis focuses on the connections between Christian mission work and international development across time. The fundamental problem this study addresses is not as much a problem as it is a question: does ...
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(1983)Samuel Johnson's view of the Atonement shifts over his lifetime, from the exemplary view with its emphasis on the strict rules of conduct which lead to salvation to the propitiatory view with its faith that Christ's death ...
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(2018-04-23)This dissertation illuminates and elucidates the ways that Protestant fundamentalism was manifested and applied in the African American community during the modernist-fundamentalist controversy, from 1915-1940. In contrast ...
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(2011-02-22)The present study examines the evolution of the definitions of 31 terms having to do with three prominent religions in Spain: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The definitions are analyzed for racism and religious bias in ...
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(2009-05-15)This thesis provides a rhetorical analysis of prophetic texts, non-fiction premillennialist dispensational studies, the fictional series, Left Behind and interviews with series’ readers. This thesis argues that prophetic ...
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(2020-05-19)Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World, is an eBook collection of essays written by religious studies faculty and graduates students from Texas A&M University. Coming from a variety of ...
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(2021-06-10)This eBook provides a follow-up conversation with key contributors from The Distanced Church, published in April 2020, which explored how church leaders were responding and adapting to the need move their traditional ...
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(1983)The United Methodist Church provides a model for understanding the relationship between theology, institutional structure and behaviour. Following the World Council of Church's meeting in Mexico, 1963, the Church followed ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1958)
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(1983)God exists in a realm of higher dimensionality than man. Information from this realm, when communicated to man, may seem contradictory. This occurs because of man's limitations in apprehension. Man knows of God in three ...
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(1987)In his personal writings, as well as in much of his fiction, J.R.R. Tolkien often expressed the paradoxical belief that the 'wheels of the world' are often turned, not by the great, the powerful, or the mighty, but rather, ...