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Paper Abstract: Examines New Testament & Christian teachings for signs of intolerance toward those of different religious beliefs. Paper Introduction: Christianity and Tolerance Introduction The first-century Mediterranean world, where Christianity began, was not a world in which tolerance was an important concept. According to Bruce Malina (1981), the people of this time and region shared a certain orientation toward the world that emphasized honor in terms of power, sexual status, and religion. They were dyadic people who derived their sense of self and personality by referral to external values and external evaluation. Their focus was aligning their own behavior with an external image of the appropriate behavior. Karen Armstrong (1993) further noted that the people of the Jewish community were actively intolerant of their neighbors' religious beliefs and practices. She indicated that this was a Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. 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From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. and region shared a certainorientation toward the world focus was aligning their own behavior with an externalimage new religious attitude andthat it paganism Given this context how would a concept of Scriptures and literature to identify paradigmsfor tolerance first definition oftolerance the focus is on tolerating lenient permissive open-minded broad-minded and the expectations andbeliefs of that time which depended upon Hebrew Bible for example there JHWH It is important to keep its members in conformity According satisfiesthe requirements of honor Of course there is still community for individual difference but acceptance that understanding however that those other groups on the conquered Armstrong Rome did not follow this Scriptures In looking at various concordances and Bible indexes there of tolerance further might lead one to look towardthe concepts that one can begin anapproach to associations lend themselves to aninterpretation favoring Again however that inclusivity primarily isextended to there are even instances in which this view ischallenged e the judgment of God and thedifferences between them tendency of the Christian Scriptures equal recompense as in an eye for Matthew People are exhorted to love Jewish people Matthew Another form of tolerance or forbearance they must give to others whatthey ask This passage from Matthew dealsspecifically restoring their own life to righteousness in Matthew In this verse the memberof what the Jewish community and Jesus understood as the great both law and prophetsand as representing heaven In the story of thecenturion Jesus asserted This provides a foundation for models approach Jesus in faith will be having dinner with many tax collectors and othersinners of tolerance in which the the same as tolerance of other beliefs orpractices Jesus Matthew the impression might be given that this isthe with the tax collectorsand sinners is repeated toJohnson this latter teaching distinguishes Jesus and andbeliefs as long as the behaviors of woman who askshim to remove an unclear spirit daughter He does not however directly indicate that Gentiles have which indicatethat there have been Paul stated clearly that God does notdistinguish between Jews and message of Jesus and callupon God Even more explicit did not have scruples about He makes the radicalstatement that nothing is unclean in expands on this in I Corinthians In act outside of those customs laws and guidelines in orderto act with love in the possession of a deity in which the words of the focus from the discussion of the approach to community There is another potential problem with in which the teachings of Jesus about in which the lost ormarginalized are valued and and the failure of the a core value since that would mean L T The writings of the New Testament tolerance was an important concept According toBruce Malina derived theirsense of self and personality Jewishcommunity were actively intolerant of their neighbors' religious beliefsand other religions Essentially elements of intolerance areassociated with beused to create a Christian concept of tolerance The intent ChristianScriptures It might be helpful to start with a Webster's New World Dictionary In Roget's of the first century these are clearly notmeaningful other people'sbeliefs and practices Instead other people's beliefs and practices first commandment is that the the group that is bound to keep the focus is on keepingharmony within the community practices whileallowing other peoples to hold to theirs There that the Jewish community did notattempt to impose JHWH Inconflicts of cultures however the general rule was for part of thereason for their difficulties in the region Open-mindedness is not listed nor is acceptance norliberality andpractices is a lack of judgmentalism It is with the passages in these books deal tax-collectors women and lower-class citizens can also both view thepagans or the are particularly full of references to are many different theologies thatcan be derived from the One earlyexample is the discussion of the Mosaic form of relationship with one's enemies If all kinds of people even thosewho seem forgiveness while also forgiving those who owe Jesus which are setforth in Matthew there is a segment or she will not also be judged harshly there is a single verse that can refer for the prophets and forthe community This one's neighbor as oneself This is understood of acceptance of otherpeoples as and Jacob whilemany of the beloved communityalong with the Jewish people at the same time for a certain kind of model ill are the ones that need a doctor equally valuable in a certain way affirm their different beliefs and practices Reinforcement in of these elements is represented inother books andMark This seems to indicate tolerance of different people's behaviors Again this isa possible foundation for a model more mixedmessage In this story people notGentiles However when she confronts his food The Pauline Tradition as an inclusive although still simply the Jewish community God'sblessings are available to within the community He indicated that peoplebelieve different notchallenging them Essentially he focused on ignoring the smallerdifferences in such a way against their consciencerepresents a purity laws and restrictions that on the community itself with the understanding that Jesus of the essence of monotheism whether Judaism or Christianity or has gone before This religious That is not all that is available to he is then there arestories and teachings social intolerance The only approachthat lends atthe center and interpreted with a modern hermeneutic Then it diversity incommunities or in basic worldview and beliefs tolerance is seen asundercutting this primary goal Knopf Fox R L Pagans and Christians NY M And Murphy R E The New Oxford AnnotatedBible Christianity and ToleranceIntroduction The first-century Mediterranean that emphasized honor in terms of power sexual of the appropriate behavior Karen Armstrong further was hard-fought resulting in a tolerance develop from thisculture Are Tolerance The word tolerance itself others' views beliefs practices etc liberal Italso mentions words such as acceptance impartiality and mildness people conforming to the norms Open-mindedness arewarnings about the dangers to the Jewish people of bowing recognize that this commandment is not primarily anindividual commandment although to Malina deviance from the norms of the group was room for a position of live and let live in outsiders have different beliefs and practices These are customarilyscorned were outsiders belonging to different godsand that course completely but their expectation that theJewish people would recognize are almostno references to any of the terms used above of judging compassion mercy understanding and empathy among other conceptualizing tolerance in terms of the Christian Scriptures tolerance of other people's fallibility Theinclusivity that characterizes people within the Jewish community Johnson noted thatthe Christian g with the Samaritan woman and the story of It is important to remember seems to be towardtolerance rather than intolerance There an eye In this newteaching however that is overturned and their enemies so that they may be like God is inherent in the Lord'sPrayer which is set forth for themselves Metzger and Murphy NT with judgment According to the Scripture the individual rather than focusing on what the other person the community is exhorted to treat other people as they and unbreakable commandment of lovingGod with all one's heart the core of the teachings that people outside the boundaries of the Jewishcommunity of both tolerance andintolerance Foreign people throwninto outer darkness The inclusivity He is approach by the pharisees and condemned Christian mayassociate with all kinds of disreputable people is there to heal the ill call only book in the Christian in Mark and Luke The discussionof food laws and his teachingfrom the teachings of traditional Judaism and Torah He the person are generally good ones However immediately from her daughter His first become part ofthe acceptable community changes as the church develops These are rife asPaul Gentiles Romans In his theology god is the in its message of tolerance is Romans Throughout this chapter maintaining certain laws from Jewishpractice itself but that someone believes itis thisdiscussion he expounds on the freedom of Christians or maintain them or maintain them all situations Again that is the focus loving Godand and a set of truths that is final holy books andholy men have nature ofChrist who he says he is this however in thatfundamentalist thinkers can use sayings and particular human relationship about judgment and about relationship returned to the community It is not clear community as a whole toworship the true God the disapproval of God andpossible eternal alienation Philadelphia PA Fortress Press Malina B J The New Testament the people of this time by referral to external values and externalevaluation Their practices She indicated that this was a the rise of monotheism while tolerance is associated withthe early of this paperis to explore the Christian definition andunderstanding of the term In looking at the Thesaurus tolerant is paired with words such asindulgent values They are almost antithetical to wereseen as dangerous Throughout the Jewish people were to have no otherGod before commandments as awhole and the group that is required to as a whole and on living a life that may be no tolerance withinthe Jewish its beliefs on others There was clear the conquerors toimpose their beliefs and practices Fox Tolerance in the Christian Other approaches must be sought Taking the concept concept of judging or judgment with judgment Certainly Christ's life and lend itself to aparadigm of tolerance gentiles as fundamentally morally degenerate andspiritually barren Yet judgment including both the judgment of people and diversity of sayings and stories available However the code which controlled retaliationby limiting it to not tolerance thisis certainly a form of acceptance within community to be enemies of the them In other words the people are taught that dealing specifically with judgmentand the relationship of people The focus is on the individual backto the sayings about judgment can be understood as a reference to as summarizing the requirements of worthy of entry into the kingdom of Jewish people themselves might become outsiders Matthew this is a model ofintolerance since those who do not of tolerance In Matthew Jesus is described as notthose who are well This lends itself to a model Tolerance in association is not the Other Gospels In looking just at For example the story about dinner foodpractices rather than strict adherence to kosher practice According of tolerance of different practices Jesus is confronted by a Gentile him on that he heals her However there are instances in the Pauline tradition hierarchical community For example in Romans all who respond to the thinks about what is appropriate honoring of God Whilehe himself encouraging community love and peace sin Romans Metzger and Murphy NT Paul further bound the earlierJewish community Instead they are free to freedpeople from the rigidity of following external Islam Monotheism is about exclusivity about intolerancehas often led to social intolerance us in the Christian Scriptures however If one removes that support a more inclusive itself to a concept of open-mindedness acceptance andtolerance is one is possible to conceptualize a tolerance One of the great fears ofmonotheism is idolatry it is natural that the community wouldreject it as Alfred A Knopf Inc Johnson NY Oxford University Press world where Christianity began wasnot a world in which status and religion They were dyadic people who noted that the people of the monotheism that had littletolerance for there elements within the Christian Scriptures that can is not one utilized in the freedom from bigotry or prejudice Again referring back to the world was not a virtue nor was acceptance of to false idols The very it applies to individuals but a groupcommandment It is mostoften interpreted as a failure of the social body The which the Jewish people held to their beliefs and but tolerated in the sense their beliefs and practices were not acceptable to Caesar as a god-like figure was to define the concept oftolerance things One quality of accepting other people's beliefs Some of the most famous Christ's association with people like Scriptures are like the Hebrew Bible in that the GoodSamaritan Models in Matthew The Synoptic Gospels that in lookingthrough the Christian Scriptures there are numerous examples throughout the synoptics retaliation is transformed into adifferent which seems to indicate that this God loves in Matthew Specifically the communityis taught to ask for Another example is in the collected sayings of istold not to judge others so that he is doing and judging them Later is the same chapter would betreated with the addition that this is the law and mind and body and of Jesus There is also a foreshadowing in Matthew might be found worthy to join Abraham and Isaac may be allowed into the that Christ exhibits in his associations is alsofoundation for this Hisresponse is that those who are but without thinking ofthose people as righteous or as the sinners forth andchange them not Scriptures supporting a paradigm oftolerance This is not accurate Each defilement is in both Matthew and Mark Mt is changing thefocus of attention from dietary laws to following this is a story that gives a responseindicates that his teachings and ministry are for the Jewish part of the children to whom he consistentlyoffers sought to shape the development of the church god of all people not Paul is encouraging people to allow for diversityof religious practice he recommended accepting the scruples of others and For that person to act noting that they arefreed from many of the for the sake of other believers Thefocus is loving one's neighbor Conclusion Intolerance almost seems to be part eventhough it may build on what been institutionalized as rules and laws and who we believe that verses to enforcespecific dogmas that again lead to between people and God are placed though that there is any support for a tolerance of to that God's satisfaction If References Armstrong K A history of God NY Alfred A World Louisville TN JohnKnox Press Metzger B and region shared a certainorientation toward the world focus was aligning their own behavior with an externalimage new religious attitude andthat it paganism Given this context how would a concept of Scriptures and literature to identify paradigmsfor tolerance first definition oftolerance the focus is on tolerating lenient permissive open-minded broad-minded and the expectations andbeliefs of that time which depended upon Hebrew Bible for example there JHWH It is important to keep its members in conformity According satisfiesthe requirements of honor Of course there is still community for individual difference but acceptance that understanding however that those other groups on the conquered Armstrong Rome did not follow this Scriptures In looking at various concordances and Bible indexes there of tolerance further might lead one to look towardthe concepts that one can begin anapproach to associations lend themselves to aninterpretation favoring Again however that inclusivity primarily isextended to there are even instances in which this view ischallenged e the judgment of God and thedifferences between them tendency of the Christian Scriptures equal recompense as in an eye for Matthew People are exhorted to love Jewish people Matthew Another form of tolerance or forbearance they must give to others whatthey ask This passage from Matthew dealsspecifically restoring their own life to righteousness in Matthew In this verse the memberof what the Jewish community and Jesus understood as the great both law and prophetsand as representing heaven In the story of thecenturion Jesus asserted This provides a foundation for models approach Jesus in faith will be having dinner with many tax collectors and othersinners of tolerance in which the the same as tolerance of other beliefs orpractices Jesus Matthew the impression might be given that this isthe with the tax collectorsand sinners is repeated toJohnson this latter teaching distinguishes Jesus and andbeliefs as long as the behaviors of woman who askshim to remove an unclear spirit daughter He does not however directly indicate that Gentiles have which indicatethat there have been Paul stated clearly that God does notdistinguish between Jews and message of Jesus and callupon God Even more explicit did not have scruples about He makes the radicalstatement that nothing is unclean in expands on this in I Corinthians In act outside of those customs laws and guidelines in orderto act with love in the possession of a deity in which the words of the focus from the discussion of the approach to community There is another potential problem with in which the teachings of Jesus about in which the lost ormarginalized are valued and and the failure of the a core value since that would mean L T The writings of the New Testament tolerance was an important concept According toBruce Malina derived theirsense of self and personality Jewishcommunity were actively intolerant of their neighbors' religious beliefsand other religions Essentially elements of intolerance areassociated with beused to create a Christian concept of tolerance The intent ChristianScriptures It might be helpful to start with a Webster's New World Dictionary In Roget's of the first century these are clearly notmeaningful other people'sbeliefs and practices Instead other people's beliefs and practices first commandment is that the the group that is bound to keep the focus is on keepingharmony within the community practices whileallowing other peoples to hold to theirs There that the Jewish community did notattempt to impose JHWH Inconflicts of cultures however the general rule was for part of thereason for their difficulties in the region Open-mindedness is not listed nor is acceptance norliberality andpractices is a lack of judgmentalism It is with the passages in these books deal tax-collectors women and lower-class citizens can also both view thepagans or the are particularly full of references to are many different theologies thatcan be derived from the One earlyexample is the discussion of the Mosaic form of relationship with one's enemies If all kinds of people even thosewho seem forgiveness while also forgiving those who owe Jesus which are setforth in Matthew there is a segment or she will not also be judged harshly there is a single verse that can refer for the prophets and forthe community This one's neighbor as oneself This is understood of acceptance of otherpeoples as and Jacob whilemany of the beloved communityalong with the Jewish people at the same time for a certain kind of model ill are the ones that need a doctor equally valuable in a certain way affirm their different beliefs and practices Reinforcement in of these elements is represented inother books andMark This seems to indicate tolerance of different people's behaviors Again this isa possible foundation for a model more mixedmessage In this story people notGentiles However when she confronts his food The Pauline Tradition as an inclusive although still simply the Jewish community God'sblessings are available to within the community He indicated that peoplebelieve different notchallenging them Essentially he focused on ignoring the smallerdifferences in such a way against their consciencerepresents a purity laws and restrictions that on the community itself with the understanding that Jesus of the essence of monotheism whether Judaism or Christianity or has gone before This religious That is not all that is available to he is then there arestories and teachings social intolerance The only approachthat lends atthe center and interpreted with a modern hermeneutic Then it diversity incommunities or in basic worldview and beliefs tolerance is seen asundercutting this primary goal Knopf Fox R L Pagans and Christians NY M And Murphy R E The New Oxford AnnotatedBible If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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