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Ritualism is apparent in Hemingway’s short story “Big Two-Hearted River” with regards to Nick’s interactions with the river and nature. Through my Christian background, I recognize that this ritualism also is evidently involved with the sacrament of baptism and the Eucharist. As we discussed in class, Nick is injured due to a battle and is now attempting to recovering from that wound. However, William Bysshe Stein argues that Nick is also “afflicted by a graver injury, an acute disunity of…

Some would go as far as to criticize and reject their past churches or ministers for not being Christian enough, and others would challenge the validity of state-controlled or state-supported churches. In the late eighteenth century many religious groups felt strongly about the issue regarding how much say the government should have in person’s individual…

I chose to write about a worship service I experience not too long ago at the Bahá'í House of Worship. One of my friends is of the Bahá'í faith. This friend I found to be one of the most spiritual individuals that I know. However, as I travel down my own spiritual path, faced with the spiritual bankruptcy of a contemporary society, I seek out individuals who are on a path to spirituality. Nevertheless, one of the great benefits of this relationship is sharing conversations with him as I work…

absolute. People have been corrupted by relative truth and cannot recognize what is absolute and what is not. Sadly, this problem has entered, not all, but some Christian churches. When the people of God begin to accept the relative truth, the entire body of Christ is effected. While the method of welcoming all is supported by love, many Christian churches today have become accepting to sins that the Bible has clearly recognized as wrong. The Presbyterian USA, the United Church of Christ, and…

Therefore, a Christian cannot perceive this theory as viable or fully true. There are many reasons why the ransom theory is still considered a theory. To begin with, one must analyze the meaning of the word “ransom.” The word ransom merely means 'redemption-price; it does…

takes shape in many different ways as one examines one culture from a different culture. Growing up in a Christian family, I have a lot of experience with the complexities of worship even just within my denomination of Christianity. When examining Islamic worship, and comparing it to the concepts of worship I have come to hold, I see many similarities and differences. Islamic and Christian worship both have similarities in manner by which worship is to be expressed, and the words that are said…

Tale of Two Leaders The striking differences between a Catholic priest and a Christian pastor are nearly too numerous to count. Not only in the services they conduct, but their orientation into their field and the way they are taught to interact. The reality of the situation is the contrasts exist only to highlight to comparisons. Between Ronald Cobb, the Christion pastor in Horton Kansas, and Benjamin Tremmel, the Catholic priest of the Good Intent Parish, there exist some of the most uncommon…

acted as a way for God’s people to worship and experience the glory of God. Therefore, it is no surprise that churches today still hold similar biblical mentalities and use music an extension of worship and even a mandate from God. Music, for early Christians and specifically Roman Catholics, tended to be more simplistic, sung in Latin, typically by a priest or clergyman, and included very few, if not any, instrumental accompaniment. As a result, music was seen as incredibly sacred, having…

an interesting topic that seems to be an endless discussion for pastors, professors, and theologians. It is essentially a spiritual glue that holds us as Christians together in order to seek after God. My personal understanding of the Gospel was bland before taking GLST 220 and I am grateful to have a better understanding of it now. As Christians, we should always be seeking how to fully understand the Gospel and what it means to serve the Kingdom of God. My understanding of the Gospel was not…

Quiverfull/Patriarchy Movement When we think of the Quiverfull movement, or the Patriarchy movement, we do not think of them in anyway as a a threat to our basic freedoms, they are a quirky, weird group. The Quiverfull/Patriarchy movement is not a denomination, but an ideal, their tenets of faith spread in small communities, and individual, albeit, large families across the nation. It is in the way they attempt to infiltrate the mainstream that is troublesome. Through politics and…