Understanding sexual practices today

Paper Presentation Subject: Marriage and Family Counselling Topic: Understanding sexual practices today Lecturer: ... Presenter: ... Introduction: Marriage and Family is the first institution given by God to Human beings. Sex is the highest gift from God to Human being. Sex, when practiced as God ordained, designed, and intended, is a pure, needful, and beautiful wonder of God's creation. Here in this paper we will discuss about the understanding sexual practices today. Understanding of God and Sexual practices in the Bible: It is our belief...

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Christian Reflection on Hinduism

Introduction:    This paper brings special features on the Christians reflections on Hinduism and reflects between the Hinduism and Christianity in the past or early history of Hinduism. Hindu Christian Relationship Christianity has a long history of relating to Vedic religion in South Asia, though it is only in the modern period that explicit Hindu-Christian interaction can be documented. “ Hinduism is an actable abbreviation for family of culturally similar tradition “a convenient catch-all for a vast variety of religious cults and...

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Definition of Philosophy – Philos, Sophia, Darshana

1. Definition of Philosophy – Philos, Sophia, Darshana, etc. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, philosophy is the critical examination of the grounds for fundamental beliefs and an analysis of the basic concepts employed in the expression of such beliefs. Philosophical inquiry is a central element in the intellectual history of many historical civilizations.[1] The English word ‘philosophy’ has its root in the Greek term – ‘philo–sophia’. The term ‘philo’ refers to ‘love’ and ‘sophia’ refers to wisdom (human reason). The Greek terms can...

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Re-imagining sources from the margins: Experience

Paper presentation Subject: Theological Methodologies from the Margins Topic: Re-imagining sources from the margins: Experience Introduction: Before we discuss the sources relevant for doing theology for subaltern and marginalized people in India, we should be clear of two significant points. One that we are talking of ‘theologies’ and not ‘a theology’. This is because in our country there are a number of subaltern communities or group carrying their own identities. Two, that we should always be aware of the caste element behind the ‘subalternity’...

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Critical Introduction to the Book of Jeremiah

Paper PresentationTopic: Critical Introduction to the Book of Jeremiah Introduction:                                                                                                                                   ...

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Re-imaging the Ekklesia as community of Communities

Introduction:The word “Ekklesia” is a Greek word, meaning “gathering of those summoned”, which literally means “those called out” and understood as “Church” or “Assembly” or democratically elected parliament, or the political assembly of citizens of an ancient Greek state, or “meeting”, especially a religious congregation. A better translation of “Ekklesia” would be “community”. Hence, “Ekklesia” is a community, a community of chosen people for a purpose.Ekklesia is the Greek word that has been translated in the Bible as "church," 108 times.The...

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Prophetic Ministry before Monarchy: Moses, Samuel and Deborah

Topic        : Prophetic Ministry before Monarchy (Moses, Samuel and Deborah)Subject    : Vision and Mission of the Prophet Lecture    : Mr. xxxPresenter    : xxxIntroduction: Generally a person who serves as a channel of communication between the human and divine worlds is known to be prophet. The biblical prophets played an important role in Israelite religion and society. The prophets have been considered moral and ethical innovators, who brought Israelite religion to...

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