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…, no matter what their rank or class or where they lived. With the exception of a small number of Jews and Muslims in Spain, everyone in Europe was a Christian during the Middle Ages from the richest king down to the lowest serf. It was the important stabilizing…

…Most people live their lives practicing their religion, doing what is allowed and keeping away from what is forbidden. Killing or harming one’s self or others is against most religions if not all of them, from Christianity to Islam to Judaism…

…back. Calvin had many writings that pushed the Protestant cause forward. From 1540 to 1563, he wrote commentaries on all of the books of the Bible except 2 and 3 John and revelation, which helped Christians everywhere understand them more fully. Calvin…

…for both medieval Christian and Islamic thinking, until the end of the 17th century. Aristotle combined the classical four elements, air, earth, fire, and water, with four qualities, hot, cold, wet and dry. All physical objects were seen as combinations…

…and filled with a lot of good for anyone studying religion. Studying the book of Job, we can learn of Christians’ perceptions of God's power, wisdom, and sovereignty in the world; we can see how men of God grappled with the question of God's justice; and we can…

…though at the time it may feel like it, actually it is to teach them and to help them grow as individuals. The reaction of Christians might also follow this pattern as well. Let's say your child marks up your wall with red lipstick that will not come out…

…In The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy paints an elaborate portrait of the lives of twins, Estha and Rahel, growing up in the complex social environment of castes and Syrian Christianity in post-colonial India. Rahel and Estha see the world through…

…at Lorenzo by saying, “To bait a fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed me revenge” (Shakespeare 92). So by saying this his real means are to kill Lorenzo just because he is a Christian and even though he can pay him back three times the amount…

…The first sacrament that I found to be rejected by both Martin Luther and the peasants was penance. Martin Luther wrote: “absolutely none among outward things…has any influence in producing Christian righteousness or liberty.” What this quote means…

…“Under God”. “Under God” is bold and very religiously associated phrase commonly used with the Christian religion. The original writer of the Pledge of Allegiance originally wrote “one nation, indivisible…” without religiously referring to God. I believe…