...that I attended was on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is the last Sunday of Lent, and it is also the first day of Holy Week. The Palm Sunday service included the passing out of palm leaves to the congregation. The Palm leaves symbolize Jesus’ arrival into Jerusalem because people of his time offered them as sort of a welcoming path into their city. A practice that I found interesting from the Palm Sunday service was the fact that the Palm leaves could not be thrown away. After asking, I learned that the leaves had been blessed, so instead of throwing them away, the church kept and burned them to use as the ashes...
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...Sunday in Lent. As I entered the Church, the priest, Father Bob, was standing at the door greeting people. As I was looking around in the lobby, Father Bob noticed I was not a regular and approached me. He was very kind and eager to answer questions. He handed me the Church’s newsletter and an Order of Mass. The building was a large brick building. It is a Spanish Baroque style structure with no wood beams, framing, or nails. It is constructed of only bricks and tile. Ground was broken for the church on May 20, 1908 and the first mass held there was on December 17, 1911. The Roman Catholic Church is based in Christianity and is a theistic religion. In greater detail it is a monotheistic religion. There are many hierophanies in the Catholic Church. An example of a sacred place would be the church itself. An example of a sacred person would be the priest or Father Bob at St. Mary’s. Also in the Catholic Church Saints and Popes would be regarded as very sacred people. The mass I attended was during the sacred time of Lent, which is a forty day period. The Catholic Church is not iconoclastic at all. At St. Mary’s there were multiple depictions of the holy in their art. There was a statue of Jesus The religious language of the sermon was double-intentional. The priest read John 4:5-42 for the gospel reading. After the gospel was read, he told a story about an Iraqi family who recently moved to a new community and started going to a Catholic church. The language in the gospel is double-intentional...
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...WHAT IS PASCAL TIDE According to Paderborn( 1910),Paschal Tide is the period during which every member of the faithful who has attained the year of discretion is bound by the positive law of the Roman Catholic church to receive Holy Communion (Easter duty). During the early Middle Ages from the time of the Synod of Agde (508), it was customary to receive Holy Communion at least three times a year — Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. A positive precept was issued by the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) and confirmed by the Council of Trent (Sess. XIII, can. ix). According to these decrees the faithful of either sex, after coming to the age of discretion, must receive at least at Easter the Sacrament of the Eucharist (unless by the advice of the parish priest they abstain for a while). Otherwise during life they are to be prevented from entering the church and when dead are to be denied Christian burial. The paschal precept is to be fulfilled in one's parish church. Although the precept of the Fourth Lateran to confess to the parish priest fell into disuse and permission was given to confess anywhere, the precept of receiving Easter Communion in the parish church is still in force where there are canonically-erected parishes. The term Paschal Tide was usually interpreted to mean the two weeks between Palm and Low Sundays (Synod of Avignon, 1337); by St. Antonine of Florence it was restricted to Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday by Angelo da Chiavasso it was defined as the...
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...Christianity is derived from Judaism and has evolved into a separate religion with a variety of different teachings. The central understanding of the religion revolves around the teachings of the Messiah, Jesus. The central message Jesus brought was the Kingdom of God, the reality that God intends to have happen, and he used these teachings to spread the word of God to the people of the region and new followers. His story develops in Bible which is considered one of the sacred texts used in Christianity. The specifics of his story are derived from the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, John, and Luke. These gospels lie in the New Testament which is the text that is commonly used for its teachings. Matthew, Mark, and Luke are the three synoptic gospels that have a similar narrative. These gospels focus on Jesus’s journey from Galilee to Jerusalem where he was crucified or where he died for the world’s sins. The gospel of John represents Jesus as a teacher or revealer. His story focuses more on the logos or words, glory, truth, and love. Jesus represents the rationality of all that exists. Christianity as a whole tells its followers that their vocation is to love each other. In Mark 12:31 the message states, “The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Although love is the common message, the history of Christianity has had its fair share of...
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...strengthen an individual’s relationship with God. If a person wished to be confirmed, they could do so as long as they were a Christian and understood their faith and duties. Christianity has many symbols some of them being the Latin cross, a dove, and an itchthus. Some say the Latin cross represents the human form while others believe it is a symbol for good luck. The dove symbolizes the Holy Ghost and the release of the soul in death. The itchthus represents God because in Greek, that is what it stands for, and it was used by fishermen and was a symbol of a common deity (Christian symbols and their meaning, n.d.). Scriptures In Christianity, many people are believed to write what Christians call the bible. Some of these people include gospels, epistles, and revelations. During worship, the leader of the church includes the scripture in their teaching by reciting parts of it. Sometimes individuals will read the scriptures by themselves during the service. Christians use the bible which is a collection of stories from the Old Testament, which many other religions have, and includes the New Testament. Buildings and Places of Worship Christians worship in a place called a church. A church may mean a building but to many Christians, a church is the places where all believers of Christ, regarding denomination, come together to worship their God (Christian Church, n.d.). The purpose of a church is to educate fellow members of the religion and to also spread Christianity to non-believers...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The Theology of the Emerging Church: Unorthodox Theology of the Revisionists Stream of the Emerging Church Developed from Culture Submitted to Dr. Richard Elligson, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of the course THEO 510 D13 Survey of Theology by Ray Ruppert May 7, 2014 Table of Contents Introduction...................................................................................................................................... 1 Definition of Emerging.................................................................................................................... 2 Emerging from Modernism.................................................................................................... 2 Emerging from Culture.......................................................................................................... 3 Emerging Theology................................................................................................................ 4 Comparing Revisionists Theology with Orthodox Theology....................................................... 5 Identify with the Life of Jesus.............................................................................................. 6 Transform the Secular Realm................................................................................................. 8 Conclusion.............................................................
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...BIBLIOGRAPHY PMM 225 CHURCH YEAR Adam, Adolf. The Liturgical Year: Its History and Its Meaning After the Reform of the Liturgy. Pueblo, 1979. Alexander, J. Neil. "Advent, Christmas and Epiphany" Liturgy (Summer 1984), 9-16. Alexander, J.Neil. "A Sacred Time in Tension" Liturgy (Volume 13, Number 3), 5-10. Alexander, J. Neil. "Rejoicing in the Glorious Company of the Saints-the Origin of the Feast" Liturgy (Volume 14, Number 3), 1-15. Alexander, J.Neil. The Liturgical Meaning of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany: Waiting for the Coming. The Pastoral Press, 1993. Asendorf, Ulrich. "Luther's Sermons on Advent as a Summary of His Theology" in A Lively Legacy: Essays in Honor of Robert Preus Edited by Kurt Marquart et al. CTS Press, 1985. Babin, David. Week In-Week Out: A New Look at Liturgical Preaching. Seabury, 1976. Bainton, Roland. Martin Luther's Christmas Book. Augsburg Publishing House, 1997. Bainton, Roland. Martin Luther's Easter Book. Augsburg Publishing House, 1997. Bass, George. "An Introduction to Liturgical Preaching" Response (Easter 1978), 29-32. Bass, George. The Renewal of Liturgical Preaching. Augsburg Publishing House, 1967. Baughman, Harry F. Preaching From the Propers. Board for Publications Of the United Lutheran Church of America, 1948. Beckwith, Roger. "The Origin of the Festivals of Easter and Whitsunday" Studia Liturgica 13 (1979-1980), 1-20. Bergerm Rupert and Hans Hollerweger (editors). Celebrating the Easter Vigil. Pueblo Publishing,...
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...Evaluate feminist views on the role of religion in society today. [33 marks] Feminism is a structural theory that takes a conflict view upon society. They view religion as a socially constructed institution in society that promotes patriarchy and is a tool used by men to oppress women. Feminism point out that religion is founded upon male-values, and use the example of Mary Magdalen’s unknown marriage to Jesus as a key point. However, some may point out that Feminist views on religion are outdated as religion today is less prevalent and no longer holds these patriarchal values as they previously have, and if there are any left, they are quickly disappearing. Firstly, a strength of Feminist views on religion is that they have recognised and criticised the inequality that is prevalent in religious organisations. They point out that women are not allowed access to the upper positions in the religious hierarchy in many of the traditional religions. For example, Orthodox Judaism and Catholicism forbid women to become priests. Karen Armstrong says to this that ‘the exclusion of women from the priesthood as evidence of their marginalisation’. On the other hand, the Church of England allowed for female vicars in 1994, and more recently in 2014/5, allowed for female bishops, with Libby Lane being the first. In addition, on the 12th January 2016, New Jersey Synagogue announced that they had hired the first female Orthodox Rabbi. However, one could point out that although women can...
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...Preaching the Gospel in an Awkward Age William H. Willimon Duke University Chapel, Durham, North Carolina In The Nature of Doctrine: Religion in a Post-Liberal Age, (Westminster) George Lindbeck notes that North American Christians live in an awkward age. The age is awkward because, Christianity, having once been established in this culture is not yet clearly disestablished. Perhaps that explains why the majority of my sermons begin in Lindbeck's "experiential-expressivist" mode, beginning with the congregation's unformed and uninformed experiences and subjectivity, as if the old Constantinian synthesis were still in place, only to end as if I am a missionary speaking to pagans. Having begun in the recesses of human experience - are you depressed? Do you want self-esteem? How can we get the attention of Congress? -1 end with the renewed realization that the gospel does not merely want to speak to the modern world, it wants to assault, confront, convert, remake that world through the church and its preaching. As Lindbeck might put it, I begin, as all liberals do, as "experiential-expressivist," providing poetic articulation to what people already know, only to realize belatedly that the gospel is more "cultural-linguistic," demanding conversion into a new culture and a new mode of speaking and thinking which cannot be known without conversion. Most Sundays, in my neo-gothic, middle-of-the-university pulpit built in the heyday of North Carolina Constantinianism, speaking to a campus...
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...|BTEC level 2 Diploma in Health and Social |Religion/Secular Belief 1: |Religion/Secular Belief 2: | | |Care – Unit 6, Task 2 |Christianity |Buddhism | | | | | | | |General Beliefs/ Symbols |There is only one God. |There is not any God: Buddha was a man. | | | |God created the universe. |Abandon of privilege to true nature of life. Monks are | | | |Jesus, the son of God died on the cross to save mankind |expected to live in the most extreme poverty. | | | |from death and sin. |Tradition of personal spiritual development. | | | |They believe in the Trinity-God the father, son and the |The 3 Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha). | | | |Holy Spirit. |The 5 Moral Precepts. | | ...
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...The Gospel According to Mark These events took place at La Colorada ranch, in the southern part of the township of Junin, during the last days of March 1928. The protagonist was a medical student named Baltasar Espinosa. We may describe him, for now, as one of the common run of young men from Buenos Aires, with nothing more noteworthy about him than an almost unlimited kindness and a capacity for public speaking that had earned him several prizes at the English school in Ramos Mejia. He did not like arguing, and preferred having his listener rather than himself in the right. Although he was fascinated by the probabilities of chance in any game he played, he was a bad player because it gave him no pleasure to win. His wide intelligence was undirected; at the age of thirty-three, he still had not qualified for graduation in the subject to which he was most drawn. His father, who was a freethinker (like all the gentlemen of his day), had introduced him to the lessons of Herbert Spencer, but his mother, before leaving on a trip for Montevideo, once asked him to say the Lord's Prayer and make the sign of the cross every night. Through the years, he had never gone back on that promise. Espinosa was not lacking in spirit; one day, with more indifference than anger, he had exchanged two or three punches with a group of fellow-students who were trying to force him to take part in a university demonstration. Owing to an acquiescent nature, he was full of opinions, or habits of mind...
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...pioneered in New York's South Bronx in 1973 by Jamaican-born Kool DJ Herc. At a Halloween dance party thrown by his younger sister, Herc used an innovative turntable technique to stretch a song's drum break by playing the break portion of two identical records consecutively. The popularity of the extended break lent its name to "breakdancing"--a style specific to hip-hop culture, which was facilitated by extended drumbreaks played by DJs at New York dance parties. By the mid-1970s, New York's hip-hop scene was dominated by seminal turntablists DJ Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, and Herc. The rappers of Sugarhill Gang produced hip-hop's first commercially successful hit, "Rapper's Delight," in 1979'. The local popularity of the rhythmic music served by DJs at dance parties and clubs, combined with an increase in "b-boys"--breakdancers--and graffiti artists and the growing importance of MCs, created a distinctive culture known as hip-hop. For the most part, hip-hop culture was defined and embraced by young, urban, working-class African-Americans. Hip-hop music originated from a combination of traditionally African-American forms of music--including jazz, soul, gospel, and reggae. It was created by working-class African-Americans, who, like Herc, took advantage of available tools--vinyl records and turntables--to invent a new form of music that both expressed and shaped the culture of black New York City youth in the 1970s. Rap shares its roots with other forms of traditionally...
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...near Mecca. The Islamic tradition stands that during his time at the Mount Hira, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the year 610 and commanded Muhammad (PBUH) to recite scared words coming from the Divine, which would later (are now) be included in the Quran. After receiving his first revelation he thought he had been possessed (as every ordinary human being would think) and so he ran away from the cave. By 613 CE, Muhammed (PBUH) was commanded to publicly proclaim God’s Oneness to the Meccan’s who worshipped idols. He started preaching to people on the streets to call them to his religion, called Islam, “Submission to God”. Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) was an ordinary man destined to be one of the leaders of Islam. On the other hand, the gospel in the New Testament says that Jesus was born to Virgin Mary. He performed...
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...How & Why We Fast An explanation of why we fast at certain times of the year, and with certain foods. The most important aspect of fasting is a spiritual one. We grow spiritually and get closer to God through fasting and prayer. We read in the Gospels, "However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting" (Matthew 17:21, Mark 9:29). Fasting weakens the body and elevates the soul. It is a battle against the flesh. A weakened body is less susceptible to sin and more susceptible to an awakened soul. "My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness" (Psalm 109:24). Fasting is the first response to the act of being filled with the Holy Spirit. Fasting on the Mount was the first act of Christ to begin His ministry. Fasting removes the "lust of the flesh", "the lust of the eyes", and "the pride of life" (1 John 2:16). God ordered him not to eat from just one specific tree. This was not to deprive man, or to impose His authority, but rather to make man worthy of His love through fasting and obeying His commandment; "man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord..." Deut. 8:3, Matt. 4:4. The Lord, Himself fasted before undergoing trial and undertaking- 40 days (transfiguration). In this way He declared that fasting is not deprivation, neither is it a restraint upon the body; but it is rather a sublimation with our Lord on Mount Tabor which enables us to enjoy His Glory made...
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...TOPIC: ‘CHRISTIAN FAMILY AND THE MEDIA’ INTRODUCTION: Every Christian family is a balanced environment designed by God for the growth of human beings. God’s idea of family is to transmit values from generation to generation. Every Christian family is originated in God alone. And every family has its purpose from God. When we study about Christian family, we find that each family differs from one to the other in terms of design, lifestyle, background, character, purpose, goal and the structure. Christian family comes under the plan of God where the relationship between parents and children are notable through which it touches the outer world. Family is also one of the most important and enduring institution in our modern society. Every good and bad thing comes out of the family. If the family fails then the other institution of societies will get sick. So the family is that basic unit of society which strengthens and weakens the entire society1. CHRISTIAN FAMILY IN MODERN SOCIETY: The life of the family depends on the love of parents for children. But most parents focus on making material prosperity by keeping aside their children. Their problem is very common in today’s world. In many cases the modern parents leave their children depending in electronic games and media instead of teaching faith, values, behavior and a Christian world view. As a result the family has become an idolatrous symbol in parts of the modern world. The fame and reputation of a family in...
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