Church Essays

Church has been seen in some ways as the place where people come to allow their burdens to be lifted. It has been the place where people are healed and where forgiveness has been found. But, what happens when the church itself is hurt by conflict and sin? Conflict occurs …

In “Baptist and the Ecumenical Movement,” Briggs postulated that the origin of the Baptist movement begins in the history of the Radical Reformation and that “Within the logic of English Separatism, it is difficult not to see Baptists as naturally schismatic [movement]. ” Briggs help summarized the Baptist ecumenical movement …

The rise of Puritan ideology in Elizabeth I’s Church and Government was potentially an extremely dangerous threat to her power. However in practice, any attempts to promote Puritan ideas were crushed so quickly and effectively by Elizabeth that the movement never got the chance to develop into anything more serious. …

            Venerable Bede was a Benedictine priest at the Saint Peter’s Church in Monkwearmouth and later at the Saint Paul’s Church in Jarrow, both in the north-east of England. He was a renowned author, biographer, chronologist, historian, poet, scholar and theologian.             Bede was born around 672 A.D. in Jarrow. …

Rhetorical analysis is a way to analyze the effectiveness of a persuasive message.  It involves an examination of three facets of argumentation:  ethos, pathos, and logos.  Ethos is the credibility of the speaker.  IF the audience finds the speaker credible, then they are more likely to adopt his views.  Pathos …

The Methodist Church is nowadays described as Non-conformist because it does not conform to the rules of the established Anglican church. Yet it was born out of Anglicanism, and early members continued to receive the sacraments within their local Anglican parish church. How and why did this situation arise? Hans …

Bernard P. Prusak’s `The Church Unfinished: Ecclesiology Through the Centuries’ is an excellent account of the history of the Catholic church over the centuries. For anybody willing to broaden one’s knowledge of the church history, the book offers a rich variety of facts supported by extensive documentation. Prusak, being a …

INTRODUCTION             If there could be an architect who has surpassed such different genres of ideological proportions, it has got to be Tadao Ando. The pritzker prize winning architect is one of the most notable and most infamous architects of all time. His awesome ingenuity and the persistent growth of …

Immaculate Conception Church was the Place where a bloody battle between the Spanish troops and Filipino troops occured. Many town residents were imprisoned, executed and buried during the Japanese occupation. Its convent was once the seat of the civil government. On April 9, 1864, a council made of the Archbishop …

Sexual abuse is one of the common diseases of our country. Wherever you go, there are cases of women being sexually assaulted. It may be in the family, in the workplace, in the society and even in the Church where the person belongs to. That she may dance again by …