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1 Ecumenism: Enemy Mine

Ali Almarzooqi

Sudabee Lotfian

Marymount University

12/4/2017

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Question 1. Relating the religious practice of ecumenism to the overall

story.

The Ecumenism always practices the naming of the children. This is crucial because

it helps in identification. Children are always named after their grandparent’s name,

the good times, the events surrounding the birth among others. In our book the

Enemy- Mine we see the people discussing the coming of the Jerry and preparing for

the name to use for identifying the human child. The child has been chosen five

names just like Isaiah 9:6 who gave Jesus so many words such as the wonderful

counselor, Immanuel among others.

The Ecumenism always fights for unity and peace among people. The Ecumenism

always advocates peace between humankind and nations. This is a sign of showing

love to one another just like in the Enemy Mine. Jerry is saying that they have been

living at peace for many years until when they have started to be invaded. This is

that there is stability in terms of economic development.

From the page one of the article, we see that one of the principles of enhancing

unity among the humankind is enhancing unity among people of different religious

faith and this would help increase understanding of each other and would help in

reducing enmity and hatred.

The Ecumenism always encourages the teaching of the sacred theology as this

would help in spreading facts just like in the Enemy –Mine where there is the

provision of the Death at the end of life. This is provided in the Philippians 1: 21

where Christ Died and it was the end of his life.

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Question 2

There has been a strong relationship and unity between Jeriba and Davidge’s and

this is evidenced by Davidge try all his best to help Jerry when she was delivering so

that he can save Jeriba from dying. This shows the magnitude of love by performing

midwifery as the first timer without anyone to guide him so that he can safe Jeriba.

This unity despite the difference in religious faith shows people should live as one.

Factors might decide whether such relationships are harmonious or antagonistic are

the emergence of disputes, the cultural factors, and the individual differences

among others.

From the topic of Muslim- Buddhist dialogue address that people should accept right

and wrong actions and that humankind should try to reach each other irrespective

of their differences just like Jerry is used to do. This would help in reducing

individual and interreligious conflicts.

Question 3

From the story, we see Jerry and Davidge in conflict and they were about to strangle

each other but they have realized their mistake and Jerry is asking for forgiveness.

Later they reconciled and they later exchanged ideas where we see Davidge asking

for Mickey Mouse teaching.

Buddhism have understood the changing world and they are aiming at offering

eights paths to enlighten people just like Jerry was ready to offer the substantial

teachings that are found in Mickey Mouse and Tawan to his friend. This has helped

in enlightening her friends and increased knowledge on religious matters.

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We also see Jerry and Drac, not in good terms and all of a sudden Terry decided to

give teachings to Drac where he accepted. We see this occurring in Proverbs 19: 20:

29 where we are told that people should listen to the advice and accept all

corrections.

According to my opinion, people should the similar things that happened to the

story should apply to the contemporary world where people should listen to each

other as they forgive each other just like the Lord's prayer always advise us to

forgive each other irrespective of their denominations, race, tribe among others. It

is always advisable to seek guidance from the Bible just like Jerry did.

Question 4

If this assignment was a research paper would you not base my research on Nostra

Ætate or the Unities Reintegration? This is because on they were written so many

years ago 1995 and 1964 respectively. The world is dynamic there are so many

transitions that have occurred and they have not been updated and my research

work may be obsolete if I chose to use this as my reference.

Nostra ætate and Unities reintegration are similar since they address the same

concept of enhancing unity among different denominations that are addressing the

Ecumenism. These sources are being almost written the same time by authors who

had common goals.

Also, both the Nostra Ætate and the Unities Reintegration do not provide the

information on the contemporary world. They are all based on theology but not

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informed of what has happened in the real world. This would be difficult to get the

information from these sources that relate to the reality.