Essays on Clergy

Psychology is a discipline devoted to comprehending human being behavior. It seeks to enhance life satisfaction and quality by outlining actions or adaptive behaviors that can either promote or deteriorate a person’s well-being. Psychologists have instituted both personality and psychological theories that attempt to develop an understanding of drug onset. According to Association of Mental Health Clergy (AMHC), personality traits have been examined in relation to drug abuse to explore their significance as risk factors. The modes of thinking or personality characteristics influence the proclivity of a person developing a substance use problem. This essay examines the personality ...

Introduction

Human sexuality refers to the capacity for one to have sexual feelings. It can be expressed in differently including same-sex relationships, heterosexual interactions and even relationships among different partners. The form of sexuality one follows is guided by their life teachings and influences by culture, global interaction, and religion. These factors determine how one would choose to live their life. Over time sexuality has changed especially in the past century. Freedom to express one’s sexuality has increased, and people are more willing to transform due to reduced fear of persecution and reproductive limitations. This paper will explore the ...

The African American Civil rights movement was a series of social and political protests whose aim was to bring to an end discrimination and racial segregation. Also, the social movement sought to secure the legal recognition and the protection of the African Americans by the federal government. The leadership of the Civil rights movement comprised of the African-Americans and selected Politicians. The labor union and religious groups were instrumental in financing and the organization of various activities of the social movement (Jamie 2). According to the African-American movement was a grassroots outfit since most of the activities were organized ...

Pope Innocent III was born in 1160 and was named Lotario de Conti di Segni. His reign as the Pope started on 8th of January 1198 to July 1216 during which he established a legacy as one of the most influential popes of all time. Pope Innocent III was born in Gavignano with his father being a member of a famous lineage which had produced nine Popes. Pope Innocent III mother was also from a noble family. The Pope achieved his early education in Rome and later enrolled for theology in Paris. He was a brilliant student and through ...

The Biblical Scripture and the U.S. Civil and Criminal Codes

Research Paper

Introduction Almost all countries nowadays comply with one of two main legal systems-- civil law or common law. The civil law system originated from continental Europe and was implemented by European colonizers, like Portugal and Spain, in their respective colonies. On the other hand, the common law system was developed in Great Britain and was implemented in the British colonies. In the 19th and 20th centuries, civil law was accepted and enforced by countries previously implementing unique legal systems, like Japan and Russia, which aimed at reforming their legal ...

The letter by Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” targets the white ministers in the city of Birmingham. King writes this letter to the 8 white ministers who criticized his actions as a clergy in a statement which was published in the newspaper, after he violated the law of the city and had to be jailed. The purpose of the letter is to address issues in the city which subjects African American towards injustices and segregation. The author seeks to address the plight of the Negroes who have suffered under the whites for a long time (Fahey ...

The French Revolution was one of the most important moments in world history. The French Revolution symbolized that the ideologies and methods of the Enlightenment were no longer only the work of philosophes, academics and of the salons of Paris. The French Revolution was the moment when all of this theoretical knowledge regarding the way societies and governments should be organized left the pages and entered the streets, the cafes and the political clubs.  The French Revolution was the result of a crisis in France’s ancien regime and its assertion of the division of the state, the polity, ...

Discussion Board

Martin Luther is one of the most famous personalities of the Reformation. Though the well-known “95 Theses” were placed on the church doors in Wittenberg as a means of a dialogue with the clergy, they had a significant influence on the history of the church as well as on development of the individual identity. In Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, Luther criticizes one of the common attributes of the church of the 15th and 16th centuries – the indulgences, or the documents, sold by clergymen, which allowed buying the penance. He writes that “ ...

Medieval Europe Prostitution

Depiction of Women in the French Fabliaux Within the French fabliaux, women are portrayed in many different ways. However, the two most dominating depictions are as the heroic figure, or the unsavory figure. There are numerous articles and essays written on this topic, supporting one side or the other, explaining the reason behind why women are portrayed in a certain way within the fabliaux. However, are we really able to support strictly one side of the argument? The history of prostitution explains to us that there could be a reason why there exists such conflicting portrayal of women within ...

Plato, who is a famous individual even today, came from a very good background of an Athenian Family. His family had very critical political connections. Socrates was the main person who was an influence on Plato’s life. The uncle to Plato named Charmides knew Socrates very well, and he might have been the one who introduced Plato to him (Socrates). More essentially, Socrates was always observed in action by Plato. It was very risky to spend time with Socrates because he used to offend those that had a desire to be elite members. In addition, he used to ...

In the Confessions Book X, St. Augustine depicts the reality of confession on memory and cognition, continence, and moral vices and sin. Cognition can be defined as the process of thought or thinking. Memory can be defined as the process of creating, storing, and recalling information or experiences on a daily basis. This paper will consider the concepts of memory and sin, along with the possibility of moral transgression and the remedy of continence. The nature of the power of memory is evident when an individual travels through their memory by looking into its roomy chambers, with countless images ...

Nefertiti et Akhenaton

Introduction The book that was chose for me to read was Nefertiti et Akhenaton by Christian Jaques. This book is written in French and was published in 2005. This paper will demonstrate the biography of the author, the summary of the book, how the book relates to Mediterranean culture, identify themes that correlate within the Mediterranean culture.

Biography of author

Christian Jacq was born in 1947 and he is French and also an Egyptologist who wrote about ancient Egypt, and he was particularly fascinated by Ramses II whom he wrote five books about. He came from Paris and Egyptology got him interested ...

Martin Luther is one of the most prominent figures in Christian history, the founder of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Moreover, Luther had a great influence on the formation of the Western state model. It is important to mention that Luther was primarily theologian and his attitude to secular authority was predetermined by the current situation of church and Christianity. Luther argued in his doctrines that man lives in two spheres: the scope of the gospel (religious sphere, attitudes toward the kingdom of heaven) and scope of the law (state sphere, the earthly kingdom). They are both branches of ...

Term Paper

There are different types of societies around the world. Each of these societies has its unique economic and political structure and systems. The term economic structure is used to define the varying balance of output, income, trade and employment that is drawn from various sectors of the economy. These range from primary farming, mining, and fishing to secondary construction and processing industries and the tertiary sector. On the other hand, political structures are the groups or institutions and their associations with each other including the interaction patterns within political systems and regulations. Changes in economic and political structures bring ...

The Response of the Victorian Churches to Charles Darwin’s Doubt

Pitch Contrary to the perception of the Victorian Era as one of the highlight of English Christianity and even morality among societies, the situation was not so behind closed doors. The people were beginning to question the Biblical inspirations and teachings based on Christian doctrines that had otherwise defined their existence and faith for centuries. Accordingly, the sources of doubt were twofold: there was a rapid development of biblical criticism, and the scientific discoveries were challenging cultural norms. Perhaps there was no original sin. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution presented an alternative for the European societies of the ...

Objections to Moliere’s Play Tartuffe

Indeed, there are various personnel that object the thematic and presentation-related aspects of the play titled Tartuffe by Moliere (Muller 169). Importantly, one of the most outspoken and aggressive critique is the clergy presiding the event attended by the pope. In this case, the clergy is of the opinion that Moliere was attacking the religion (Prest 132). This perspective is inspired by the fact that Moliere paints religious fundamentalists as ones who seek to maintain an appealing and morally upright look from the outside while their souls are full of evil. As such, he is ordered by the king ...

The speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Junior in 1967 at a meeting of the clergy, who had concerns about the Vietnam War. The speech by King was terse and with love. King and other members of the clergy had watched the Vietnam War for decades and had grown tired of it. As men of God, the members of the clergy felt it was their moral obligation to speak up. Admittedly, they felt that their silence towards was a form of betrayal to the human race and God Himself. To shun such a feeling, they decided to channel ...

Religion is an integral component of human history at different stages of its development. The Muslim Reformation fundamentally different from the Catholic Reformation. “As religious regimes both, Catholicism and Islam, preceded and are likely to outlast the modern world system of nation-states” (Casanova 2). The difference lies in fact that these processes occur at different times and in various specific historical conditions. The Muslim Reformation expressed primarily in the revision (or attempt to revise) religious motivations of the various aspects of social life and only marginally affected the proper theological questions. In Islam church and clergy similar to a ...

The inventive mechanism which complements the imagination and the will is what the Capricho refers to his artworks. They have irrational unsystematic and psychological and most important are not bound to the rules of art. Nonetheless, there is detrimental impulse that produces defective results. Capricho dictates that the defective natures of his arts are a mental form created by illusion. Both the idea and the image are independent as a result of sense perception and intellect. It is the motivating concepts that refer to artistic principles of design. Capricho also stimulates erraticism in his works of art. For instance, ...

The Renaissance was a period in Europe that happened between the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Most history scholars consider it as the main point of connection between the middle age and the modern history. Renaissance started in Italy, and arrived in the other European countries in the succeeding years. The period of the Renaissance was the first step towards religious revolution, commonly referred to as Protestant Reformation (Tankard, n.p). It is probably the political circumstances of the sixteenth century that led to its success in some places and failure in others. The Renaissance period was a mark of major ...

The French revolution is an exercise which saw the French people redesign their political landscape and the ultimate overthrow of the monarchy which began in the year 1789 and came to an end in the late 1790s. The French revolution just like the American Revolution which had occurred before took place majorly as a result of the Enlightenment ideals such as the sovereignty and also the rights that can be said as inalienable. It can be said that the revolution was not much successful in terms of achieving its intended goals but on the other hand it showed to ...

General Introduction to the church

History of the Church is seen to encounter many challenges. The early church had its roots on cemented on strict and stringently followed biblical beliefs. With time, evolution and civilization began to encroach the church values and systems. The church initially, did not believe in earthly riches, entertainment, politics, and honor. The acceptance of such in the church consequently brew divides in the church, and people started accepting and interpreting the Bible in different ways. Hence, congregation members began to cocoon in line and cohorts of what they believed was right. As declared by Jesus, “no one can serve ...

[Client’s name] Discuss how the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and one of the tales themselves could function as a criticism of the three estates of medieval culture; that is, the social hierarchy of the 14th century. How do Chaucer’s descriptions of the pilgrims in the prologue contribute to this? In the Medieval Culture there were three estates of the society. There were those, who prayed, those who fought and those who worked. All the representatives went into the journey, and right from the Prologue each participant starts to tell the stories that show all the ...

History of the Crusades is described in detail in the ancient chronicles, widely reported in the scientific works, and has become a favorite subject for the cinema. It has been less known that the Crusader invasion led to mass destruction and annihilation of the local Muslims and Christians: Orthodox, Jacobites, and Armenian Monophysites. It was from then on that they became a humiliated, despised minority, which currently is only suffering on their own territories. Very quickly, Arabic supplanted the Aramaic language of the indigenous population. Now only residents of three small villages north of Damascus speak it. The Crusades ...

Q. 1 Dr. King counters the “outside agitator” viewpoint held by the Birmingham clergy by claiming that the affiliates in Birmingham had asked him as well as his staff to engage in a non-violent direct action program if people would appreciate it. According to King, he and his people lived up to their promises. Besides, he distances himself as an outside agitator by claiming that injustice was not only affecting the people of Birmingham, but also people in other cities. Therefore, through organizational ties, he had to help the inhabitants of Birmingham to secure a working solution. Q. 2 ...

European colonization of the North America began in the 15 century when John Cabot reached the northern part of the island of Newfoundland and declared it the possession of the English crown. The meeting of Europeans with indigenous people of North America was followed by both not equal fight, and interaction. However, as a result of this racial and cultural mixing was born and began to develop a new civilization. The colonists did not find gold in the new lands and therefore, their development differed from the Spanish conquest and at the first stage was peaceful. Before the colonization ...

After the defilement of the congregation and consequent breakout of the French Revolution, their impact had extremely debilitated. Despite the fact that the impact of the clergy toward the end of the eighteenth century had practically no practical effect, the years to come after the end of the French Revolution demonstrated the quality and flexibility of the congregation. It wasn't until the state-church bargain was marked by both the religious pioneers and the administration pioneers of France when the enduring impact of Catholicism started to be felt once more, and thus, this impact would be felt all through history ...

1. What were the causes of revolution in the British colonies of North America in the 18th century; France in the 18th century; and Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries? The feeling of inadequate representation caused unpopular unrest that led to revolutions in France, America and Mexico. Americans opposed taxation without representation and in France, heavy taxation and king’s incompetence made the people rise up to overthrow the political establishment. In Mexico, oppression of the majority by a clique of powerful elite made the masses take up arms. Desire for equality and freedom informed these revolutions. ...

Subject

The politics affecting Middle Eastern countries has a direct impact o world economies and politics. Yet, the political system of Muslim countries greatly differs from modern Western concepts, leading to misconceptions about the morality of such a system and doubts about its feasibility in the modern democratic world of politics. In this paper, I will be firstly be discussing how religion and politics in Islam cannot be separated. I will further discuss the rationality behind Islamic politics existing in the modern democratic scenario. Unlike Christianity, Islam does not consider its clergy and its political rule to be different and to ...

Introduction

Education has always been considered as one of the most important aspects of life that should be given undivided attention. For this reason, any country’s economic and political growth is highly dependent on the education curriculum. Knowledge gained from education is a key factor that helps raise a generation of high intellectual capacity (James, 1930). In the United States of America, education is one of the country’s components that have been given high priority. This is evidenced from facts observed from the history of some of the famous education institutions such as the Harvard University. Charles Eliot was an ...

III. THE DATA AND THE TREATMENT OF THE DATA

1. The Data Needed

This study intends meeting the intellectual, knowledge level, and abilities of the United States military chaplain corps in their diagnostic and treatment of those afflicted with combat related stress. The target population for the proposed study, thus, consists of two sample groups; (1) military chaplains, and; (2) members of the uniformed services who have served in hostile environments subjecting them to possible stress related (Unwin, Blatchley et al., 1999).

2. Data Collection

Understanding the intrinsic value of the empirical characteristics of qualitative research is core to its philosophical underpinnings fitting into the intention of this ...