Fundamentalist Christianity

Are American Indians Lawfully Sinners or Just Uninformed? In chapter six of Francisco De Vitoria’s book, “Vitoria: Political Writings,” titled, On the Americans Indians, Vitoria considers various arguments regarding the dominion of the “barbaric” American Indians by determining if sinners, unbelievers and children as well irrational and mad men should have dominion over property and over themselves. Although I agree with Vitoria’s conclusion that American Indians should be treated as any other…

During the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (where he reigned for 36 years), the position of the Catholic Church was highly included and changed dramatically after the civil war. The Franco regime used religion as a way to gain popularity and trust throughout Spain, exploiting the faith of others. Catholicism was the only state religion allowed at the time, so the Franco regime preferred a conservative Roman Catholicism. Franco saw the Catholic Church as the perfect opportunity to show…

Expectation is a firm belief that something will happen. It is a confident feeling about someone or something. In every relationship we have different expectations; people expect different several things from him and God also expects us to do a certain thing. We expect him to love and support us to mention the least, He expects us to obey and love him back. Expectation motivates us to do better, to work harder or to climb higher in life. Expectation is a gift, not a pain for when people expect…

The novel Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García-Márquez combines strong Columbian cultural aspects and significant biblical references to create a murder story that has you on the edge of your chair. The journalistic writing style used by Marquez makes the novel unique because, it jumps from different characters’ point of view composing a greater feeling of understanding between the different character which engages the audience. Chronicles of a Death Foretold has several comparisons…

At the start of Act II, “Love and Marriage”, Wilder yet again skips ahead in time and explains changes to the audience, offering us not only a microscopic perspective, but also a macroscopic perspective. The Stage Manager’s monologue begins with him saying, “Three years have gone by. Yes, the sun’s come up over a thousand times”(46). With the intent of emphasizing the amount of time that has passed, Wilder uses the Stage Manager to then change perspectives by converting years into days. He does…

Christ Our Healer Introduction There isn’t just a correlation between divine healing and the atonement. Rather, they have a cause and effect relationship. The atonement is the cause for divine healing to be accessible to humanity. God allows mankind to activate healing through prayer and anointing by the elders etc… So a healing minister should be apart of every local church. My belief in healing rose ten percent when I became a recipient of healing from an illness plagued me for over thirty…

Throughout the book Deuteronomy chapter 6, different themes presented are; those themes include Exodus, Passover, righteousness, Torah, redeemer, covenant, and election. The themes correspond to the self-understanding of the Israelites. The first term Exodus means “‘going out’”, the events before and after the Israelites were freed from slavery is in the Exodus (Frigge 60). It shapes the self-understanding of the Israelites community through the narration of those events and the Exodus…

INTRODUCTION N. T. Wright, or Nicholas Thomas Wright, is a former Anglican minister – namely the Bishop of Durham – who is widely considered a gifted biblical scholar and prolific author in the field of Christian theology and Early Christianity, and especially Pauline texts . Despite his reluctance, N. T. Wright is unavoidably associated with more or less a different approach to the reading of Apostle Paul, which has gained currency as “the new perspective” – a term coined by James Dunn .…

Which is more important? Humanity or Religion? Lives of few or Needs of many? The Law of God or the demands of the world? Life or Teachings? Is it necessary to be in a in the same congregation before your institution/church would help the needy? These are some of the questions that can be formulated in the film entitled AMEN (2002). In this film, we can clearly see that there was a discrimination between race for survival and among Christian faith. The main character (Kurt Gerstien), who is a…

For this paper, I aim to analyze the character of Sarah Miles on her journey to faith. Her character is a good canvass to discuss the concepts of Marcel and his notion of God and authentic faith. The End of the Affair tells the story of Sarah Miles, a civil servant’s wife, who starts a five-year affair with Maurice Bendrix, a prominent writer. During the span of five-years, Sarah begins to question the morality of the affair and her fidelity to her husband Henry. She tries to rationalize the…