Essays 151 - 180
In five pages this text by Jean Bethke Elshtain is analyzed in its portrayal of Augustine and how it represents the limitations of...
Women in a repressive, male chauvinistic society -- such as in the time of Augustinian law -- must do what they have to in order...
In eight pages this paper examines writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and others in a consideration of the marriage concept an...
In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...
In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...
In three pages this paper discusses a theoretical TV symposium regarded on the presentation of women in literature and thoughts on...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...
tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...
fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...
seems to be known about the education of Mark. The author of this gospel is believed to have been John Mark, the cousin of Barnaba...
still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
engine of aesthetic development throughout Western Europe for much of history. This can be seen in the patronage of artists by Chr...
text. Augustine is explaining that he was more emotionally in tune with Greek classic literature than he was with his own spirit...
of the debt and obligations that put opposing pressures on it, sending it reeling toward its inevitable conclusion--calamity. ...
Shedd (1886) points out that Augustine is especially guilty of this in the last eight chapters/Books. This may be because the firs...
is pleasure derived from worshiping the Triune God. In Book II, Augustine discusses further the subject of signs. He defines wha...
the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...
and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...
those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...
In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...
A little known fact is that the first American citizen saint was an immigrant and a woman. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was born ...