Essays 661 - 690
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...
anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...
God that is insufficiently explained by philosophy is referred to as "knowing" (Christian Gospel and Our Culture, 2004). "Knowing...
but rather it is Poseidon who hates him. Zeus says, "...its the Earth-Shaker, Poseidon, unappeased,/forever fuming against him for...
groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...
between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...
came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...
to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...
nature worship, and may have in common the 3 kind of occultism: Divination, witchcraft (magic) and spiritism, with the sacrifice o...
to happen. There is also the reality wherein a being that is powerful enough to create the entire world is far beyond...
1584. Menocchio declared: "in my opinion, all was chaos... and out of that bulk a mass formed - just as cheese is made out of milk...
other and as such their need to survive was often driven by their separation. Another example of survival can be seen in the rel...
the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...
to merge . This would seem to be a level in ones spiritual development, in fact, it would be the final level on earth since Nirvan...
talking about Ulysses and his struggles to get home after the Trojan War: "So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck ...
Claire persisted - "But God will end good people to hell?" The Pastor also commented that since he did not know what was in the ma...
the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...
cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...
adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...
entire novel is the childrens experience with love. Rahels relationship with her twin brother goes far beyond love; despite the fa...
finally suspended the rule of law leading to the massacre of the aristocracy; it was class warfare at its ugliest. In a sense, one...
states that the anthropomorphites commit a grave error because Jesus Himself said that God is a spirit and mans body cannot possib...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...
them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...
does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...
one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...
and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...
about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...