Scripture
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"If we [Christians] are to recover the canon and its authority, the work must go ahead hand in hand with mission to culture.

Receiving eternal life requires no works, but only faith. Understanding this message of scripture is the key to salvation. To receive eternal life, we must first die to our sins and transgressions: "As for you, you were…

¶ … truth about the holy gospel and the glorifying acts towards God is a topic that is often broached but seldom lucidly explained. In the book "Tell the Truth" by Will Metzger, he writes a personal book of evangelism…

This paper analyzes Acts 25:30 by using the Communicative Approach. It shows the importance of looking at the verse within the context of the whole Acts of the Apostles narrative. Such a reading helps deepen the meaning of the verse and communicate a much fuller message, which moves beyond the idea of charity to Christ Himself.

What is the "Postponement of the Kingdom"? It is a theory -- a belief -- that the "kingdom" (as described by the prophets in the Old Testament) was originally announced as being available to the Children of Israel when…

An Analysis of the Priesthood "in persona Christi" and "in nominee ecclesiae"

Origen was a Christian theologian associated with the early Greek Church who is credited with developing the first systematic description of Christian theology (Origen). His work and thought were to have a significant…

Paul's main intention in writing the letter to the Romans was to emphasize that it was essential for society to comprehend that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah. He considered that the Old Testament predicted the Messiah's coming and that he needed to relate to this document in order to provide more information concerning the importance of Jewish traditions. Much of the Book of Romans is concentrated on the connection between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Even with the fact that he wanted to highlight the role Jews played in the general scheme of things, he did not want to paint a distorted people of the Jewish community and he practically considered it to be similar to any other community.

If the Italians rediscovered Humanity trough the Greek and Roman antiquity, the English rediscovered it through the Italians, by the time the Italian Renaissance was already going through its third century.

An Analysis of Migliore's Comments on Violence and the Cross