School spirit

In the book Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time Marcus J. Borg discusses how the perspective people have of God and Jesus evolves throughout time. He does this by examining his own faith journey, and how his vison of Jesus and God changed as he matured and had various experiences. After his personal narrative, Borg examines the different perspectives scholars consider for Jesus. These two perspectives are the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith. It is through these two perspectives that…

Book Review Peter Scazzero, “Emotionally Healthy Spirituality”. INTR- 514, Professor Gallagher Marina Moldybayeva Since the moment when a person begins to believe in God and allows Jesus Christ to take a place in his/her heart, a life of the new believer changes radically. The new Christian’s soul begins to awaken spiritually. He/she starts to see the world differently moreover the new believer begins to have a great desire to grow in the knowledge of God. However, at some point of Christian…

John Lewis against segregation I believe there are key turning points for John Lewis in the book March by writers Lewis and Ayden book 1 and 2. In the book March John Lewis fights against segregation for equality. Initially, Lewis received a bible as a gift for his 4th Christmas. The trip he took with his Uncle Otis to Buffalo amplified his eagerness and interest for desegregation. Finally, his ambition to go to college which was ultimately denied by his parents, these events caused a change…

Martin Luther demonstrated his love for Christ through the five A’s; Scripture Alone, Christ Alone, God Alone, Faith Alone, and Grace Alone. Scripture alone means he puts his faith solely in what the bible has taught. Christ alone means he trusts Jesus in everything he did and follows his every request. God alone means he has faith that God will help him through any challenge he may face. Faith alone means he fully trusts all of these subjects. Finally, grace alone is about being merciful and…

questioned my faith in Christianity. Eventually, the experiences in my life—good and bad— showed me God again, and made my faith stronger. The first time I remember noticing strength in my faith was when I was in sixth grade. I attended a Lutheran school, which meant I had religion class or chapel every day. Although my life was surrounded by Christianity, my teacher shared her experiences in the Christian faith. She told us when she had experienced God and how it had changed her life for…

In chapter three of The Shape of Baptism, Aiden Kavanagh writes that “baptism is the paradigm of how faith in Jesus Christ is to be lived” (Kavanagh, pg. 92) This paper will explore Kavanagh’s quote in relation to two questions. First, what does this quote mean? Second, how are the reforms of Vatican II expressive of this statement? For Kavanagh, Baptism is much more than just a sacrament of initiation; instead, it is supposed to be the model of how Christian faith in Jesus is genuinely lived…

What is God to you? Is God the almighty, all-knowing, all-powerful being who watches over our every decision and action? Does God take a figure of a human, and walk amongst us, or is God only an imaginative being? In fact, God can be whatever people need him to be. Some of the biggest holy books which all portray a distinct type of God describing the way people should live their lives or the ways to everlasting life in heaven are the Bhagavad Gita, the Holy Bible, and the Quran. All these…

On the day of September 29th 2017, a trip to the local Dallas Museum of arts was made. After a few artistical examinations, there was an outstanding piece that stood out the most; it was called “The Peaceable Kingdom”. The Idealist painter Edward Hicks portrayed his background of religion to specify an important passage in the bible, Isiah 11: 6-9. Hicks used that passage to personalize many sentiments through his 62 different-surviving paintings. The individual elements in this version of the…

At the climax of Pope Francis' Encyclical on the Environment he states that, “The poor and the earth are crying out. O Lord, seize us with your power and light, help us to protect all life, to prepare for a better future, for the coming of your Kingdom of justice, peace, love and beauty” (180). These words both truthful and righteous are emblematic of the encyclical in its entirety; the encyclical is about how we as humans have damaged the word and how we must make an effort to right our wrongs.…

For Eriugena, the physical world is not without access to or communication with the other world; there is a bridge between the two, and it is constituted by the symbolum or figura. The symbol has great importance, and its definition plays a part in biblical exegesis where it designates a type of allegory that Eriugena defines as “allegory of words but not of events” (allegoria dicti et non facti). The symbol stimulates the faithful to search for a spiritual meaning, and it drives the viewer…