(against the body) and similarly adopted the concept of the divine soul—the pneumatic, or spiritual, soul, as the gnostic would say, of the same substance as the divinity—that is destined to free itself from thetyrannyof a material, cosmic demiurge (or subordinate deity). Certain gnostics...
What Do Classic Christian Writers Say about How We Follow the Golden Rule? Matthew Henry argues that theMatthew 7:12passage indicates not only that we should treat people fairly, but, read alongside other Bible passages,it shows that blessings and righteous living and spiritual disciplines go hand...
Moving on, the rest of the paragraph builds upon the power of stories, specifically within the Christian faith, and the author situates herself both personally (as a Christian) and academically (as a student of Christian history). By far the best sentence in this paragraph is where the autho...
Eugenia Roussou reaches some interesting conclusions about the interplay of Christian Orthodoxy and New Age spirituality in Greece. She analyzes the example of the evil eye as a link between both spiritualities. “Their amalgamation has given rise to a vernacular form of spiritual creativity in contem...
Europeans and, later, Euro-Americans prohibited and attempted to erase American Indian cultures, languages, and spiritual beliefs and practices, including gender and sexual variance. With the forcedChristian educationof American Indian children, those cultural and spiritual beliefs—including the roles of...
Spiritual Christians World Compassion Politics 6 Pages Essay On American Bar Mitzvah Abstract Cultural competence is necessary in understanding the implications of several traditions and customs to the provision of advanced nursing care and service. The objective of the essay is to describe a...
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