Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Comparative Religion

Why did the Gentile church keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry, but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity? If there were any binding norms, what made them so, and on what basis were they articulated?In this important study, Markus Bockmuehl approaches such questions by examining the halakhic (Jewish legal) rationale behind the ethics of Jesus, Paul and the early Christians. He offers fresh and often unexpected answers based on careful biblical and historical study. His arguments have far-reaching implications not only for the study of the New...

The explosion of two atomic bombs helped to end the Second World War. But those bombs also provided chilling examples of Bible prophecies. We can choose to dismiss prophecies as the...

One revelation in particular will be identified that completely fulfills the traditional and moral necessity of sacrifice. Many scriptural clarifications and additional promises were proclaimed in connection with that momentous sacrifice. The ramifications are...

No longer are discussions about religious intolerance limited to historians and theologians. One cannot turn on the television, listen to talk radio or surf the Internet without being bombarded by messages--many filled with bias and inaccuracies--about religious differences. Once viewed by world leaders as a harmless artifact of the past, religion has moved from the periphery of society to the center of the battlefield.

"Viewing Meister Eckhart...

Take a glimpse of how the mysteries of our reality can be unraveled for our own escape of the ending by merely arranging together the earliest beliefs, our traditional faiths, the allegorical myths and legends, the contemporary scientific knowledge and the mutual views of the modern generation.

Can God handle the 21st...

To evaluate these claims, the author uses the trial format, with the State charging monotheism with being guilty of violating the laws of advertising, by the use of witchcraft-crafty science and fortune...

In "From Mount Sinai to the Catskill Mountains" Dr. Klein provides a mirror image of religion in America in the beginning of the twenty-first century through reflecting on the relevance of the Ten Commandments and the aspirations of the Standards for religious practice to guide the institutions and their congregants. Although these Standards are intended for one segment of...

Gene also traces the original...

Believe in God or in Absolute, but not to believe in Organized Religion-which is not natural but is man-made, that not having 'Global Order and Oneness Principle.' We need such Religion which...