Essays 1 - 30
In five pages this report considers how eight and ninth century artists presented Saint Matthew in these texts in a consideration ...
knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...
that not only are the documents logically from a particular time period, but they are evaluated in the context of history. Thus, i...
Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...
therefore, offers interpretation of them through various reflections, narratives, and discourses (John, 2003). The first sign is t...
Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...
John was known as being on of the most prominent of the disciples, and work diligently to spread the word of Jesus and of love (Th...
is the fourth Book in the New Testament. The Book was written when John was in Ephesus (Smith, 1884). There is some question about...
a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me" (Matt. 26:10-11). Jesus goes on ...
the NIRV is easier for modern readers to comprehend, since it states the events in the passage in contemporary English. In 15:34...
uses his own words, saying, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Fathers house into a market!" (John 2:16). Jesus authorit...
as actively participating in his fate, rather than demonstrating passive acceptance. In the synoptic gospels, action is, for the m...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...
by everyone.5 The all-important link that connects all rituals and practices, individuals to society/community, and believers to ...
to Father: "but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made ...
he also recorded the details of His life and death for all the world to ultimately see . . . or so says "The Gospel of Judas"....
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...
well as with the earthly King David, through Joseph, who acknowledges Jesus as his son (Brown, 1997). Joseph is in the line of Dav...
make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter...
they believed it (John 5:48). Jesus is demonstrating that He is Lord over life, nothing is beyond His command (Norris). The messag...
casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...
little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone ...
he was through the eyes of others. This seems to be the purpose of combining the gospels in this manner, and thus the purpose of o...
"Peraean section."9 It is in Mark who depicts Jesus last journey to Jerusalem as being through Peraea, which is east of Jordan.10 ...
there, but the Kingdom of the Father is spread out on the earth and men do not see it." A short parable occurs early in Thomass ...
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 ...
refused and reminded the rich man that he had received many good things during his lifetime while Lazarus received many evil thing...
Chapter 6, "Preaching as Theological Interpretation through Conversation," begins with the observation that a preacher needs to ha...