Essays on Church Services

Examinations have been administered to incoming freshmen at Louisiana College to determine their understanding of the basic Christianity principles. The Belief Assessment of Spiritual Essentials (BASE) has been designed to evaluate their knowledge on matters of Christianity such as the lost condition of humanity, the identity of Jesus as God, the need to accept Jesus Christ as a personal Savior alongside Christ’s resurrection. The study indicated that most students had the convictions that an individual who was good did not need a savior and could not give a meaning to phrase being born again. Other findings indicate that ...

Introduction

Pinn refers the African American religion as a quest for complex subjectivity by addressing the creative impulses that underlie the doctrinal manifestations of the religion. The African America religion believes to have been shaped and informs by the inner stirring and elemental impulse. Human makeup plays a major role in providing a suitable avenue for the continual transformation hence advocating for the kind of life desired by the human race. Religion has persisted despite facing the challenges of different historical circumstances. It is a quest for complex subjectivity because it encompasses both the cultural, social developments, and environments, which determines the way people ...

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry VIII all had certain ideas in common during the Protestant Reformation, since they rejected the authority of the pope in Rome and thought that local rulers should be heads of national churches. Indeed, the Reformation could be described as a great impetus to nationalism as it spread through northern Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Scandinavia, England and Scotland in the 16th Century. They all thought the Latin Mass should be abolished, and had the Bible translated into the local vernacular languages. All Protestants abolished the old religious orders, permitted clergy to marry, ended the veneration of ...