... it has faith in and those which surround them sharing that faith. To take part in social activities, group functions, schools, and communal activities is a way of life in the ideal religious setting. With all of these there is the faith that drives the followers. Faith must be the underlying meaning to all activities for the ultimate. This is what separates ... the month club as a follower of the ultimate. They are simply a club but a Spiritual Community. (DOF 25-34, 135-141) The Spiritual Community is the New Being. This is the ideal being that each of the members in the community is s...

• Word Count: 1981
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... and cut his long hair, choosing to live an ascetic life. After a long period of fasting, Siddhartha went to a river to bathe. While there he overheard a music teacher, teaching one of the students. The teacher told the student that if the string was too tight, it would break, yet if it were to loose it wouldn't play. In that moment Siddhartha realized ... of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the awakened." (Smolowe; Pali Canon) Though each of these religions started in vastly different areas, they seem to have a main ideal in common. For example the both have a main founding figur...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... church confronted new and unorthodox theological teachings inspired by the atheist Aristotle. Within the spiritual traditions the church found itself opposing a seemingly endless variety of unorthodox movements inspired by the ideal of apostolic poverty (heresy) and convinced that personal morality or experience, not tradition( counter view to church's preservation strategy) or office, gave spiritual authority. These unorthodox movements of later medieval ... Recollection into Augustinian Illumination by creating a role to Christ as the illuminator of the human mind who provides the con...

• Word Count: 3607
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... my opinion the answer is undoubtedly yes. What I enjoyed immensely about this novel was the way Cahill described Jesus. He showed him as a common man, friend, lover of mankind, and a teacher who just so happened to be the Son of God. Cahill seems to give biblical explanations of Jesus by describing the thoughts and writings of John, Paul, Luke, Mark, and ... describe Paul as the more competent of the first disciples. Cahill seems to get sidetracked from the topic of Jesus and his followers but then relates it to what his ideal utopian society would be. He describes Jesus as helping to m...

• Word Count: 482
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School