Christianity began life as a Jewish sect. Far fromattempting to find a new religion, the first Christiansviewed themselves as Jews following the teachings ofthe Jewish Messiah . It was only later, after manynon-Jews converted, that Christianity became areligion distinct from Judaism. Although Chris...
aI respect the christian religion. 我尊敬基督徒宗教。 [translate] anever forget your lover and love you forever 不要忘记您的恋人并且爱您永远 [translate] a指出以后国王未经议会同意不能停止任何法律效力 After pointed out king without the parliament agreed cannot stop any legal effect [translate] a...
Of course, God is much more than what we may consider as feminine or masculine attributes. God is beyond gender. Yet Christians believe that two thousand years ago God came into our midst for a time dressed as one of us with gender. God condescended to enter into our cultural biases, ra...
you can still withdraw from the world to wage without distraction the interior struggle for authenticity, what St. Benedict called the “single-handed combat of the wilderness.” Inspired by the desert hermits of Late Antiquity, many British ascetic...
Christianity: How a Tiny Sect from a Despised Religion Came to Dominate the Roman EmpireCHRISTIANITY: HOW A TINY SECT FROM A DESPISED RELIGION CAME TO DOMINATE THE ROMAN EMPIRE...Bassett, Rodney L.Christian Association for Psychological Studies, Inc.Journal...
Many claims have been made about the resemblances between Christianity and earlier myths and religions. Some of those claims are true and others aren’t.
of acts to be followed. Rituals need not be religious; they are a common part of secular experience, ranging from a small elementary-school graduation to the inauguration of a political leader. In the case of religion, rituals relate to two other kinds of activity, ethical and philosophical....
Jesus always attracted large crowds of people whenever he came to talk and he told many stories to teach people about God, but the religious leaders of the time did not like what he had to say. Christians think that God can be seen in three ways, which is known as the Holy Trinity: ...
Christianity is not a white, Western religion exclusively. It is the first global religion whose origins lies in the Middle East, whose theology affirms in contradiction to racism the equality of all peoples, and whose history is profoundly multi-ethnic. What then do we make of those Christians...
Of course, we have little evidence that Greek religion directly influenced northern Europe’s Celtic peoples, although every reason to suspect from the galvanising cultural and military explosion of the ‘Belgic’ movement of the Celts into the Balkans and Greek territories from the 4thC BCE that...