America ranks near the bottom of the industrialized world in hard science, geography, and even its own history. World history, forget it. The fight over religion in schools has led to the banning of both hard science and stripping religion from its proper place in history and culture. Today...
(C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.doi:10.1016/j.religion.2010.09.013Steven EnglerReligionGonzalez, J., 2007, Christianity in Latin America: A history, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Based on the Old Testament and New Testament, Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on belief in Jesus Christ. Originating in the Middle East, this religion abounded in Europe, and then gradually migrated to Asia, America, Africa, etc. Presently, Roman Catholicism, the Orthodox Church ...
the advent of the Enlightenment, and the coming of modernity. As philosopher Charles Taylor writes in his magisterial religious and cultural historyA Secular Age, “The entire ethical stance of moderns supposes and follows on from the death of God (and of course, of the meaningful cosmos).”...
Since Christianity and Judaism share the same history up to the time of Jesus Christ, they are very similar in many of their core beliefs. There are two primary differences. One is that Christians believe in original sin and that Jesus died in our place to save mankind from that sin. The...
In recent history, Gary Habermas is considered a leading Christian apologist for defending the resurrection of Jesus.[15][16][17][18][19] Other notable defenders of the resurrection include: William Lane Craig,[20] Lee Strobel, Josh McDowell,[21] Edwin M. Yamauchi,[22] N.T. Wright[23]...
(development). In the course of history, however, differences concerning accepted teaching sometimes became so serious that communities divided over them (schism). The divided communities may continue their conversation in tones that range from the persuasive to the polemical (controversy). In the ...
中国基督新教诞生于19世纪中国人与欧美宣教士的互动之中。那是一个以英国和美国的商业和军事力量扩张为标志的时代。鸦片战争(1839-1842和1856-1860年)后,英国成功地迫使中国向西方和新教宣教士开放。在夏威夷并入美国和菲律宾独立之前,英国在北美洲进行了领土扩张。这种扩张伴随着经济的快速发展,对劳工产生了巨大...
history with religion, it goes something like this: I was raised in a conservative branch of Christianity and accepted it pretty much without question for the first 25 years of my life. Around the time I was 25, I began seriously questioning my faith, and actually stopped believing in God,...
extremely conservative fundamentalist Christian denominations in the United States have embraced this interpretation of history and scripture and extended their loathing of blacks and Jews to include gays and lesbians. As Barkun states it, Christian Identity is the “glue” that binds the racist right...