Essays on Religion

First of all I want to define the religion. Religion is the set of beliefs and feelings that the people of a specific society or a community or a group of people have and spend their life and do practices of routine life according to...

When I was young, I remembered sitting at home with my family watching TV and seeing a commercial for Peter Popoff’s Miracle Ministry. The commercial caught my eye. Peter started off by telling the viewers that it is in God’s will for all of us...

The Papacy is the longest-reigning religious organization of the modern world to date. Though throughout the centuries it has existed it has had a tumultuous past. The reason why the Papacy became corrupt is due to the fact that they lacked the resources that those...

The expression and development of the Catholics church’s teachings on morality, justice and world peace are significantly shaped by religious leaders in history. More specifically within the role of Pope John XXIII in his encyclicals, social teachings and his contributions to the Vatican. Through his...

Pope John revolutionised the Catholic Church’s teachings and offered a broader insight into how we should view and think about morality, justice and world peace. Before Pope John the Christian faith was viewed drastically different to what it is today, the church itself didn’t comment...

Pope John XXIII became pope in 1958, and is known as the Pope who changed the entire image of the Catholic Church. Pope John had one vision, calling for a Vatican Council in order to bring the Catholic Church up with the modern date. Pope...

Gregory was a mover and shaker in the catholic church and fundamentally altered the power of the pope and made colossal changes with his reformations, fixing the main problems of the Catholic Church. Gregory the Vll was born as Hildebrand in c.1025 in southern Tuscany...

This book comprises of a series of lectures on natural theology delivered by William James at the University of Edinburgh in 1901/1902. James sets out to analyze certain varieties of religious experience with an aim to discover their value for this life as an empirical...

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early eighth century is one of the most well-known Homeric Hymns. “The hymn falls into three easily differentiated sections: the abduction of Persephone and its revelation to Demeter; the sojourn of the goddess of...

Zeus was the ruler of all Gods and humans. He lived with the other gods at the top of Mount Olympus. Sometimes, Olympus was thought of as an actual mountain in Greece, but more often as a beautiful place in the heavens. Zeus was the...