Religious belief

How important is the body to religious practice? Scholars have debated this issue for centuries. The autobiographies of Linda Hogan and Etty Hillesum tackle this issue. Their writing shows that the body is an essential part of religious experience. Hogan’s and Hillesum’s writing shows that the body is important because it holds memory, contains traces of ancestors, is an expression of emotion and desire, and it allows us to perform sacred acts. Linda Hogan talks about the importance of the body…

He does this as a way to strengthen his Christian message. The inclusion of actual scripture also serves to add credibility to his narrative. It was a common belief among Christians that the reading of materials other than the bible was a waste of time. By writing his book and including verses from the bible, Bunyan finds a loophole, and is therefore able to work to spread Christianity the best way he knows how…

In every faith there will always be group of people who tend to hold a more extremely traditional belief of their religious views. These groups of individuals are more commonly referred to as fundamentalists. While there are fundamentalists for all religions, this looks very different depending on the faith. Understanding Fundamentalism Christianity, Islam, and Jewish Movements, by Richard T. Antoun, aids in looking at fundamentalism in the three most widely practiced religions in the world. In…

School vouchers give taxes to private schools, which include religious schools. In many states’ constitution it is stated that no taxes can go to religious schools. One of these states is Colorado, “the state's Supreme Court ruled against the district's voucher program, which was passed in 2011, saying it violated a plank of the State Constitution that explicitly…

that are occur in the brain. In this book these changes are explained in detail and the different processes that are involved with growing and maintaining a faith. The concept of faith and religious practice having a strong effect on the brain has often been the topic of debate and conflict within the religious community and secular scientists, and this book does a great job of answering this age old question of faith versus science. The major scientific and theological breakthrough is…

The founder of Liberalism Schleiermacher based his viewpoint of Christian theology on the feelings and experiences of the individual. The Bible is a “record of human religious experience rather than a revelation from God or a record of God’s historic acts.” (CHT PG 239) 1 Interpretation is key in this view religion is based on one's own personal experience. To another interpreter, Bultmann scripture could be taken apart…

Essentially it seems that the Wesleyan understanding of holiness encourages ecumenicalism: promoting the cooperation and understanding between different religious denominations to foster Christian unity. Reason is an important part of scripture validity. Reason aids in understanding, various interpretations of the bible would fall here. While reason and interpretation should not be the sole source of one’s…

the form of astronomy. Jesus ushered in the Piscean Age 2000 years ago. (The symbol for Pisces is the fish.) And now it 's time for another age, the Age of Aquarius (which symbolizes spiritual awakening). This "new" age isn 't just some religious or "New Age" belief; it 's pure astronomy. Astronomy tracks the Precession of the Equinoxes, the position of a reference point on Earth with respect to a cycle that takes approximately 26,000 years to complete (the cycle of the Zodiac). You can 't…

read it, therefore interpret it, can grow to understand nonintentional meanings of otherwise innocent stories. This can be seen in the nineteenth century with Christian members of the anti-abolitionist movement. During this movement it was a popular belief that black people from Africa were less then human and deserving of slavery because they were allegedly cursed by Noah-as in Noah’s…

Nationalism is a strong loyalty and devotion to a nation, it is the belief that the greatest benefit will come from a country acting independently in their own interest. Nationalism was a major factor in controversy within this time period because each nation would fight each other to become more powerful and to expand their…