... and thereby the denial of autonomy of the individual was broken. Luther's interpretation of personal responsibility and interaction with God drove a wedge between the church's political and social power. He went directly against the authority of the church by claming that only true ... communion with God would take place by individual study of the Scriptures. After many years of bloody struggle, Protestantism was accepted by the populace (grudgingly ... natural" nature of observed phenomena. Obviously, machines were not intelligent, yet they worked. Could it be that the universe is a ma...

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... any purpose save to serve man's purposes. although man's body is made of clay, his is not simply part of nature; he is made in God's image" (9). On the other hand some Eastern religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism, are in opposition to Christianity because there is no hierarchy of ... beings taught within these religions. There is no existence of man's domination of creatures and no special place for human beings within God's system of life, taught in these religions. Hinduism includes no idea of human beings being dominant or having dominion over nature, but instead all ... the idea...

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... claims of scripture above any religious institution's tenets. For Luther, the largest divergence that this caused from the Catholic Church was his belief that only faith can save us through God's grace (a belief fixed in his personal interpretation of Romans 1:17). This conviction was carried over into a rejection of the monastic practices of celibacy and fasting, as they have nothing to ... ...

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... warning him not to publicize it. The Church believed that it would be against the Bible to say that the Earth was not the center of the universe because if God created us in his image that we would be in the center of the cosmos. Galileo avoided publishing his book for many years out of fear from the Church. A liberal ... ...

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