Essays on Religious Concepts

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The Principles of Catholic Social Thought in The Communities and Nursing

3 pages / 1309 words

Catholic Social Thought Milburn defines Catholic Social Thought (CST) as the expansive religious and communal observation on the civil concerns that occurs in the church. The Catholic Church developed the CST to support some ideals and morals that should guide human behavior. Out of the...

Solidarity

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Concept Solidarity by Durkheim: Mechanical and Organic Solidary

2 pages / 767 words

With the increased specialized role and responsibilities of individuals in society, Durkheim was interested in what holds society together. He provides an answer by developing a theoretical framework around two types of social solidarity and its relationship with systems of law. Societies with mechanical solidarity...

Emile Durkheim Solidarity

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A Comparative Analysis of Buddhism and Islam

4 pages / 2046 words

This essay will demonstrate one similarity and two differences between Buddhism and Islam’s belief of the concept of the afterlife/next life. For example, both belief in reaching the end of one’s life (i.e., for Muslims, one will reach either heaven or hell and for Buddhists,...

Afterlife Karma Reincarnation

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Shipncba Vs Euthyphro Dilemma: Morality is Determined by God

3 pages / 1285 words

Religion has been an important influence on humanity for a very long time, so much so that our definitions for morality and divinity are religious in nature. However, an argument opposing morality by divine command states: “If actions are right because God commands them, and...

Euthyphro Dilemma God

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Reincarnation as Concept Regarding The Rebirth: Live, Die, Repeat 

2 pages / 1027 words

Reincarnation is a concept regarding the rebirth of a soul in another body. Reincarnation is present as a central principle in the Druze religion, in which the human soul can only be reborn in another human body. The purpose of reincarnation is presented in the...

Reincarnation

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Practices and Rituals of The Yoruba Religion: Birth, Death and Reincarnation

5 pages / 2101 words

Yoruba can refer to the ethnic group that resided in Yorubaland, a cultural region within Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, in West Africa. It can also refer to the language that many of the inhabitants speak within that region. The use of the word Yoruba in...

Afterlife Reincarnation

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Concept of Reincarnation in David Mitchell`s Cloud Atlas

3 pages / 1452 words

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is a most distinctive work of conceptual fiction. Superficially it is a combination of six stories written in a palindromic structure, each story told using different narrative methods with protagonists varying in the time period, nationality, and sex. Arguably, the readers...

Reincarnation

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The Problem of Evil in Religious Philosophy

4 pages / 1660 words

Numerous religions reveal that God is perfect: all-knowing, all-incredible, and helpful. Why at that point do awful things occur? It is obviously evident that there is no more noteworthy impediment to confidence than that of the truth of underhanded and enduring on the planet. What’s...

God Hell Problem of Evil

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Durkheim’s Concept of Social Solidarity in The Organization as Sunday Assembly

2 pages / 901 words

Introduction This essay will analyze how organizations such as Sunday Assembly can be useful for collectively bringing together individuals in society. Emile Durkheim would refer to a service like this as the ‘social glue’ in society, as he states that shared moral beliefs such as...

Emile Durkheim Solidarity

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Life after Death: Reincarnation, Darkness, Afterlife

2 pages / 754 words

Imagine yourself as an elderly person lying in the hospital bed, moments away from death, and you think to yourself, where am I going once I die? Life is not a circle, you are born and eventually, you will die. What happens to us when...

Afterlife Reincarnation

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Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim: Diametrically Opposed Concepts of Social Solidarity

3 pages / 1533 words

Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim are brilliant scholars that lay the foundation of their unique philosophical work in the field of sociology. While there are some beliefs that both theorists relate to one another, social solidarity is one concept they have drastic opinions on. Durkheim...

Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Solidarity

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The Division of Labor: Social Solidarity by Emilie Durkheim

2 pages / 1102 words

Emilie Durkheim is one of the most important people for sociology with Karl Marx and Max Weber. Durkheim took the importance from the environment which he grew up and also from the thinkers which he had the opportunity to discuss about sociology. Emile Durkheim has...

Emile Durkheim Solidarity

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Theological Interpretation of Joshua Paper and God's Covenant in It

2 pages / 1028 words

The Conquest Account in Joshua Joshua chapters six through eleven tell the account of the Israelites taking the land God promised to them through the Abrahamic covenant, beginning with the destruction of Jericho. God tells Joshua that He has delivered Jericho and all of its...

Covenant God Gospel of John

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New Covenant - The God's Purpose for His Death

4 pages / 1621 words

The passage that I took from the book of Luke was the Passover, which is in Luke 22:7-20. I chose this passage because the passover was one of the most important religious festivals celebrated in the book of Luke and in other books in the...

Covenant God Jesus Christ

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You Can Get Freedom Through Keeping God's Covenant

2 pages / 838 words

The Pharisees tested Jesus by asking him what the greatest commandment was. He replied with: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” and “Love your neighbour as yourself.” as the greatest and second...

Christian Worldview Covenant Religious Freedom

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Faith and Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica

4 pages / 2012 words

General introduction During the thirteenth century, the philosophy of ancient Greece was introduced to European scholars through the works of Arabian and Jewish scholars, and the works of Aristotle became available for the first time in Latin translation. Thomas Aquinas synthesized the principles of Aristotle...

Existence of God Faith Thomas Aquinas

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St. Thomas Aquinas' Cosmological Argument

2 pages / 893 words

The “Summa Theologiae” by Thomas Aquinas is composed of a series of arguments to prove the existence of God by pure reasoning, concepts and experience. Aquinas’s first three arguments from motion/change, efficient causes and necessity are the cosmological argument. The “Summa Theologica” is a strong...

Existence of God Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas’ Theories on The Existence of God

4 pages / 1842 words

What do we know about God? Who is he? Or is it she? Why have millions revered and worshipped him for centuries? Does he exist? These are questions that some of people have asked themselves at one time or another as they try to understand...

Existence of God Thomas Aquinas

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Analysis of Thomas Aquinas’ Claims on God

2 pages / 706 words

Throughout the book Summa Contra Gentiles, there are numerous philosophical explanations made by Thomas Aquinas pertaining to God. One of these explanations revolves around God’s perfection. For this subject, Aquinas claims that God is the most perfect being by using information about God to support...

Existence of God Thomas Aquinas