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... a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasonings for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the...

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... a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasonings for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the...

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... a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasonings for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the...

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...IV...305 THE END OF ANTICHRIST...305 PHENOMENON V....325 THE JEWS...325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS...328 ARTICLE I....333 ARTICLE II.....350 ARTICLE III....357 ARTICLE IV....377 CONSULTING INDEX OF VOLUME I....383...

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............325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS............................................... ...ness and peace harmonized, and goodness reigning universally. Fye, oh, fye upon it! ye Christians have fathered upon the scriptures the optimism of ... ... bring in all nations to the Church, and bind the whole world in one great community of Christians, acknowledging the Son of God, as the Lord of all... ...spectus of that which we has in contemplation, and to inform the church who this Hebrew-Christian or converted Jew, Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra actually wa... ... mother; and confederate all nations against the Lord and his anointed, persecuting the Christian church, circumventing the conversion of the Jews wi... ...g system, it will be necessary to line off a certain portion of the principal ground of theology, within which this weightiest dispute may be brought... ...is is the first defect which I have observed both in the circulating and in the written theology of our churches, the omission, I mean, of Christ’s o... ...ngle eye, and a delicate hand, requiring me to make a continual estimate of the current theology, and bringing me into the midst of the prejudices of... ... I have now to treat and enlarge upon the two other provinces thereof, which our modern theology, though making such a parade of the written word, a...

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...ive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rom... ...could he set forth, in language of almost lyrical rapture, The Freedom of a Christian. 2 Luther was thinking of such a treatise long before it was ... ...into captivity under the tyranny of the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to... ...n identified as Isidoro Isolani, a Dominican hailing from Milan, who taught theology in various Italian cities, wrote a number of controversial works... ...is a theologieal treatise and was not intended for the rank and file of the Christian congregation. In this respect the treatise stands in contrast ... ...s, all of which were written in German and were intended for the individual Christian, whether layman or theologian. All in all, the Prelude was a d... ...ardinal, general of the Dominican order and foremost authority on Thomistic theology, found himself unequal to the task of testing and refuting Luthe... ...s called the sacramentum (Vulgate). Cf. PE 2, 177 n. 5: Julius Köstlin, The Theology of Luther, trans. Charles E. Hay. (Philadelphia, 1897), I, 403; ... ...ke new articles of faith. Some time ago, when I was drinking in scholastic theology, the learned Cardinal of Cambrai 59 gave me food for thought i...

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...ty has paradoxically been both encouraged and very much compromised by the Christian religion. 26 If humanity is partially (as the Catholics s... ...n as being toxic, and that as a strategy it must be abandoned. Can the Christian religion transcend itself and give people back their truth and ... ...ception of the World * THE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD The pre-Christian religions generally follow this basic scheme: In the beginnin... ...s also born and with it the fear of divine judgment is consolidated. The Christian religion adopts the basic scheme of the Jewish religion and it t... ...tarianism of philosophy, which inevitably supports the authoritarianism of theology. Such purification is necessary if we want to free science and a... ...t and allow them to move beyond the columns of Hercules that philosophy and theology impose. The philosophy of Aristotle affirms: a) that the pri... ...sophers and scientists from their unquestioned dependence on Aristotle and theology. 69 Einstein spent half of his life looking for a way to conf... ...f the idea of God. What in philosophy is called Being and Nothingness, in theology is called God and Nothingness, and in physics is called quantums... .... This is very different from what the religions affirm and especially the Christian religion, which states that humanity’s fundamental problem lies...

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...d Books of the East include all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions that have 'exercised a profound influence on the civil... ... RELIGION. (a) Prayers and Hymns, vols. 32,42, 46. (h) Magic, Rites, and Theology, vols. 12, 26, 29, 30, 41, 42, 43, 44. (c) Philosophy, vols. 1, 8... ...oses and A. who fulfilled his word, 9, 253; the sayings of the A. of the Christians, 18, 107, 107 n.; the people of A. called him liar, 9, 61 ; an...

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...he underbrush of ‘evil’ and ‘good’ concepts were commenced by even one of the founding fathers who was obsessed by the Imago Dei. The father of much Christian theology, Augustine tackled this issue; if only we had gone on to emphasize obedience to the word of God not merely mental assent to mystery concepts, “Augustine attempts to answer this problem by claiming that the ...

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...Buddhist - Christian Dialogue The Parliament of the World’s Religions, December 2-9, Melbourne, Australia Sunday, December 6, 2009, 11:30am–1:00pm The program of the Parliament paraphrased this workshop in such words as those b...

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...Contents Dharma as Man: The Gospel Story in Buddhist Terms Lindsay Falvey 1 Towards ‘Collaborative Theology’ – Buddhist and Christian John D’Arcy May 18 Dying Buddha, Dying Christ: An Inter-Spiritual Response to the Amelioration of Suffering through Contemplative Silence Vincent Pizzuto 31 Trans...

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...re as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

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... Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality O... ...59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of ... ... majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose near... ...o be as objective as possible. As a child I was reared in a fundamentalist Christian family which had little by way of formal affiliation with any par... ...nday, still hoping to fill the hunger inside. Eventually I had tried every Christian church available. The conservative Protestant churches (such as B... ...philosophy seemed to me an obvious alternative to the churches. After all, theology had started as part of philosophy and the separation between the t... ...in what I would be expected to preach. The required courses in traditional theology brought home to me the problem of linking church doctrines with pe... ...se the whole of life is, so to THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 4 speak, religion. Theology and beliefs in general play little role in this aspect of religion... ... are names used to personify the activities of this Supreme Godhead. Hindu theology and tradition have been elaborated in countless writings by Indian...

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...dventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and r...

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...ANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO ... ...D EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EARTH. RECITING... ...under which the elder Polos went to Cathay -- They are sent back to Venice for Christian instructors -- The little boy Marco returns to Cathay with hi... ...es to the Spaniards -- Destruction of the idols of the Totonacs -- An altar to Christianity erected on the pyramid of sacrifice -- Horrible punishment... ...ble scene of riot and carnage -- Destruction of the temples and institution of Christian worship -- Description of the great temple of Cholula -- The ... ...nce, the plaything of destiny. PORTENTS OF SAFETY AND DISASTER. But, in sailor theology, God is good, and fate, though pitiless, never strikes without...

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...ELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENT...

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...is highly likely that you would be a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christ... ...eir values. And yet we call ourselves homo sapiens! ―As I‘m sure Wanda mentioned, we can tell what we value by how we act. The strongly Christ... ...alues and righteousness then is caught hustling young boys who work for him, or one who is caught in corrupt dealings, is not living the ideal Christ... ...es and liberal Muslims as his reasons for killing innocents. Power driven Catholics needed the saving of Jerusalem and the beliefs of the anti-Christ... ... is strange that so often in the Crusades it was the infidels who showed true compassion. They were often able to turn the other cheek to the Christ... ...ignorant, are you?‖ —―Certainly not. But you would have to admit that a huge number of believers in every religion haven‘t studied the theolo...

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...ng the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative log...

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...ter 1 10 Seeking Agricultural Sustainability: Science and Spirituality Chapter 2 20 Immortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Our Manipulations and Our Undoing Chapter 5 57 Some Influencers of the Church: Prophets and Sustainable...

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............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ... ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bush, as an evangelical Christian, didn‘t believe in evolution or in global warming? Was it a lack... ... and thus brought us new insights. Remember that Pope Benedict had been a theology professor. He reminded us that pure reason allows us to go beyond... ...ccur through purely random selection. He assumes it is a conflict between theology and science and that theology wins. But he doesn‘t really underst... ...et to heaven? Dan Paden, a researcher with PETA, has a master‘s degree in theology from Boston College, a Jesuit University. He said that ‗I think i... ...theologians who can add such questions to the other enduring questions of theology, like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.‖ -...

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...hose detestable holy rolling fanatical halo heads. In the spirit world, a Christian is spotted a mile away by their halo of happiness. Norma Mack is ... ...akelex cringe. The small icon of a halo at the bottom of the report meant Christian, yet this was only considered a minor hiccup. Snakelex had seen ... ...as not highlighted or in plain red lettering, he concluded this so-called Christian must have steered off the road a little. The demon was quite cor... ...ing, bad language, smoking, and a dog named Slops. Morris calls the local Christians, ‘those who reside on the hill’. They are rarely seen in the pu... ... classed as one of those on the hill and is a frequent customer. One very Christian lady in particular has demons in a panic when she, on a regular ... ...tongue to in order to back up her judgment. Snakelex worked on Karen’s own theology that God was not mysterious or unpredictable. There were no grey ...

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... Turkey obligingly accepted a "one country, two systems" approach by agreeing to a Christian administration of the region and by permitting educati... ...ective had all these reforms been by the turn of the century? How bad was life for Christian peasants in the Balkans? In a 1904 book called 'Macedo... ...sident brigands. ... They are known as rural guards. They are necessary because the Christian population is absolutely unarmed and defenceless. To a... ... Balkan problems. First, revolutionary politics was not the foremost issue for the Christian population: nationalism addressed the immediate proble... ...ns". To this very day, they hold all things Eastern (Serbs, the Orthodox version of Christianity, Belgrade, the Ottoman Empire, Macedonia) with unmi... ...ical encroachment in religious guise. The southern Slav churches rejected both the theology and the secular teachings of the "Hellenics" and the "R... ...ase in the Balkan. What started as a debate - however fervent - about abstract theology became an all out argument about derided customs and ce...

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...surgent ‗A‘ when insurgent ‗B‘ may win the guerrilla war. Why support the Christian side when the Muslim fighters may have the more ethical position.... ...ern culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced the activity, but cert... ...that all divisions and diversions fit into the whole. It seems that your Christian and Islamic faiths have had a strong emphasis on increasing thei... ...roblems in that regard. During the last twenty years there have been anti-Christian outbursts in east India where churches and Christian homes have ... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...both written 2500 to 2700 years ago. They illustrate the evolution in our theology and how we can best attain a union with the Oversoul, the panthei...

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... way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outperforming their Anglo-Christian counterparts particularly in the business and medical fields. ... ...ing. Between 100,000 and a million American Indians were killed by the good Christian invaders. In Australia 300,000 Australian aborigines were elim... ...ing people to get to heaven? But I suppose that for the last 2000 years the Christians have had this goal. Of course the Jews had that vision 3,000 ... ...m was more accepting of science, which is why they were so far ahead of the Christians. And when the Greek Philolaus proposed his heliocentric theor... ...ics will be about half that number and Protestants will equal Catholics. So Christians and M0uslims will be about equal, but the Muslims are gaining ... ...dge of history or science or a comprehensive understanding of philosophy or theology. Their thinking seems to be simply that their Supreme Being exi...

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...espect to such an approach, the theologian Marin Stefånescu stated in his ″Christian Philosophy″: < To be realistic does not mean to be materialistic... .... This evolution is outlined explicitly in the lecture ″Phenomenology and Theology″ where Heidegger make the distinction (dissemination) between ″ont... ...ly to confer a character of science even to religion, more precisely, to Christianity, the MESER concept brings forth logical arguments that foresha... ...which a character of divine revelation is attributed, and included by the Christianity in the system of the Ten Commandments, are most likely, the c... ... to be counterbalance. Even the text of one of the fundamental prayers of Christianity, ″Our Father″, states: «…and do not lead us into temptation», ... ... surprisingly compliant with the standards of natural morals specific for Christianity, when Christianity had not emerged, not even on The Holy Lan...