Essays 151 - 180
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
King of the Jews. Mark places more emphasis on what Jesus did than what He said. He saw Jesus as a powerful servant of God. Luke s...
which set the family in a state of poverty (Hooker, 1996). Mohammeds family was from the Hashim clan, which was one of the poorer ...
2004, p. 291). Another characteristic that was demonstrated by Jesus was his humility. John, chapter 13, describes how Jesus, pr...
and glorification. By a calling a person essentially is pulled out of a world "of sin and into union with Christ. This gives him a...
are the various traumatic events Christ endures from the Garden of Gethsemane until the Crucifixion. They are broken down into fo...
they were representative of all the various facets that rest within Christianity. One can surmise through Smith and Novaks ...
and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...
of it that easily. This is remedied by the fact that she is given a very difficult choice to make. Does she want to be black, or...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
In four pages this paper examines the philosophical rhetoric associated with these 2 religious autobiographies. Five sources are ...
Erasmo Seguin, father of Juan. The elder Seguins actions were motivated by his identity as a Texan, rather than as a Mexican citiz...
teaches that "all of the Law and the Prophets rest on the command to love God and neighbor (22:34-40)" (Kozar 78). Matthew 22:34...
cognitively prepare the hearer for the evangelical message of salvation that will soon follow and the third interpretation is that...
Jesus was both human and Divine as is reflected in many parts of the New Testament. This paper discusses the account of the Last S...
well as with the earthly King David, through Joseph, who acknowledges Jesus as his son (Brown, 1997). Joseph is in the line of Dav...
acceptable sacrifice capable of redeeming the sins of humanity. My personal beliefs (meaning the beliefs of the student, not thi...
ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...
in a primarily passive manner (Weaver, 1995). To put it simply, in the other gospels, for the most part, Jesus is silent. In John,...
In eleven pages this paper discusses whether or not the Shroud of Turin is little more than a contrived hoax or truly represents J...
of the Sower in Matthew 13:3-23. This parable talks of a farmer sowing the seed is not to be taken literally. The farmer is an ana...
In five pages Potter's controversial Son of Man TV movie based upon Jesus's life is examined in terms of the writer's objectives a...
as actively participating in his fate, rather than demonstrating passive acceptance. In the synoptic gospels, action is, for the m...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his masters money. 19"After a long time the master of those servants returned and settl...
home and found that this was true. This sign not only showed that Jesus possessed power over life and death, but also the role of ...
John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...
son, to God is record in Genesis 22. God instructed Abraham to take "your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the re...
First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church was held at Nicea (also referred to as Nicaea) in 325 in order to address the topi...
Jesus was more divine than he was human (Meacham 40). The issue that underscored the early ecumenical councils, once incidental ri...