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Biography. Rousas John Rushdoony ( Armenian: Ռուսա Հովհաննես Ռշտունի, romanized : Rrusa Hovhannes Rrshtuni) was born in New York City, the son of recently arrived Ottoman Armenian immigrants, Vartanoush (née Gazarian) and Yegheazar Khachig Rushdoony. [ 7] Before his parents fled the Armenian genocide of 1915, his ancestors ...
Christian ethics, also referred to as moral theology, was a branch of theology for most of its history. [3]: 15 Becoming a separate field of study, it was separated from theology during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Enlightenment and, according to Christian ethicist Waldo Beach, for most 21st-century scholars it has become a "discipline of reflection and analysis that lies between ...
The term Abrahamic religions (and its variations) is a collective religious descriptor for elements shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [ 9] It features prominently in interfaith dialogue and political discourse, but also has entered Academic discourse. [ 10][ 11] However, the term has also been criticized to be uncritically adapted.
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by the author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book outlines a code of conduct based on Toltec teachings that purport to improve one’s life. The book was originally published in 1997 by Amber-Allen publishing in San Rafael, California. An illustrated edition was later ...
Liberation theology is a theological approach emphasizing the "liberation of the oppressed". It engages in socio-economic analyses, with social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples [ 1] and addresses other forms of perceived inequality. Liberation theology was influential in Latin America, [ 2] especially within ...
Augsburg Confession Art. XXI. [ 1] The priesthood of all believers is either the general Christian belief that all Christians form a common priesthood, or, alternatively, the specific Protestant belief that this universal priesthood precludes the ministerial priesthood ( holy orders) found in some other churches, including Catholicism and ...
v. t. e. Christian socialism is a religious and political philosophy that blends Christianity and socialism, endorsing socialist economics on the basis of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. [ 1] Many Christian socialists believe capitalism to be idolatrous and rooted in the sin of greed. [ 2][ 3] Christian socialists identify the cause of ...
This and other complications have limited scholars to probable rather than provable conclusions, based largely on the biblical book of Acts, whose historicity is debated as much as it is accepted. [8] [9] According to the Gospels, Christianity began with the itinerant preaching and teaching of a deeply pious young Jewish man, Jesus of Nazareth ...