Essays on Monotheist

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The Ancient world was a time when humans were still attempting to figure out how the earth worked, why that natural world worked the way it did, and how to communicate effectively. The ancient world is one way to define that time period before the middle ages after Christianity began to take over most of Europe, North Africa, and parts of China. The ancient world is a time in the history of humanity that is viewed through many different lenses, depending on who is viewing it and for what purpose. Christianity is certainly a pivot point between the ...

Introduction

Religion occurs as one of the most ancient practices, not only in the United States but all around the globe. A reflection on religion in the United States depicts that it is diverse in nature as evidenced by the existence of various religious denominations. In a nutshell, religion seems to play a crucial role in the lives of the American citizens. However, there is a need to comprehend the fact that there exists a certain portion of American citizens who do not conform to any religious dogma. The core reason as to why there are American citizens who are ...

The Arab world consists of several nations stretching from North Africa to the Middle East consisting of over 300 million inhabitants. The Arabic nations loosely conglomerate around an organization among themselves called the Arab league. This organization tends to unify these states around common agenda when they are faced with conflicts or when they need to take a common stand on issues of international concern. The Arabic nations have a unifying language called Arabic which is spoken throughout the Arabic world though with different ethnic dialects. According to biblical sources, the Arab world partly originated from Abraham and his close relations. ...

Christianity has distinct relationships with various religions around the world. Before its founding, the worldly population had different ways of worship including cultural ways. These traditional methods of worship were widely acknowledged and accepted by different communities. At its inception, Christianity had to accept the preexisting methods of worship and incorporate them in its structure so that it could appeal to the larger church outside those who accepted Christianity as a way of worship. The preexisting cultures and traditional religious ways of worship, therefore, had different influences in the Christian worship. These influences were either incorporated before and after the ...

In an incisive and articulate voice, Corrigan and his colleagues uses an opportunity in the book to represent significant readings in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The book uses general methodology to hermeneutics and historical revisions to relay its main agenda on the religions (Corrigan 143). In so doing, Corrigan tries to treat both the real and ideal issues embedded in these three faiths. The book uses a wide range of excerpts and allegorical interpretation of the scripture, to affirm the origin, believes and practices of the trio-religions. The main themes presented by the book are monotheism, worship and ritual among ...

Do major world religions share a common purpose?

Religion plays a pivotal role in the day to day lives of people around the world and is an integral part of cultural heritage. A person’s beliefs, values and actions are often governed by their religion associations. In a world that is facing the challenge of populations of increasing diversity, it has become an imperative to understand and respect the major world religions. After having studied the tenets of major religions including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and Buddhism, it can be said that, while the religions may differ in their specific rites, rituals, and forms of worship, they all promote a ...

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The period after 323 BC to 30 BC, marked by the death of Alexander the Great and ending with Cleopatra’s death, did subsequently see the annexation of Egypt into the Roman Empire. It however, largely represent a time of considerable assimilations of Greek cultural traditions assimilated into the Empire. Hellenism grew strong on the Mediterranean shore, which saw the emergence continuous Greek civilizations, whose influence spread across the East Jordan River, Palestine, Panias and other regions where Judaism had already taken root (Hadaf 27). The contact between Semites and Greeks does however go as far back as the Mycenaean times, ...

Although criticizing religion is undoubtedly controversial according to many a believer, the concept of having a universal but supreme god prevents many from finding solutions to their problems (Vidal). On the religious side, it can be argued that having monotheistic religions has contributed to the existence of a just society, characterized by law and order. From a critical point, a monotheistic religion prevents the believers from exercising their freedom of worship or freedom of religion and hence, preventing them from visualizing the existence of any world other than the one depicted by their religion. As such, a monotheistic believer will always live in a world of ...