Essays 451 - 480
force themselves upon their wives for sexual favors, and they are not allowed by faith to molest them. The Torah and Talmud both ...
by those in a particular sect of Christianity, there would be more purity in the Christian religions. Yet, this is not the case an...
benevolent and living God who is infinite in a myriad of ways. Because God is deemed to be dead, Nietzsche sees it necessary fo...
values rapid change and constant novelty, Zaras speed and clever marketing of scarcity were highly effective. Recruitm...
In thirty two pages this paper assesses the far reaching influence of Christianity upon Western civilization's development. Thirt...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
It can be said that his treatises on this subject had great influence on the study of redemption in later years, or in the vernacu...
the way for a great number of other inventors to follow, as well as establishing a changing trend in the way the world viewed tech...
Volkswagen Foundation completing much of the research which would ultimately serve as the basis for "Women in Christianity". He h...
I of Austrasia and then Pepin III (also known as Pepin the Short) who would ultimately depose the last Merovingian king and become...
Kantian ethical system as an impartial viewpoint: however, when one considers virtue ethics, it is evident that these come from ev...
we think of as ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick t...
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
was born on a certain night that many glean as magical or mystical and it is presumed that this boy grows up to become the Savior ...
including "Aaron and his successors" and "Moses and the Prophets" (Maas). Paul pictures Christ as being above the choirs of angels...
in Galatia." After his salutation, Paul goes right to the heart of the matter, which is that the people have been thrown into conf...
However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...
at that time. It was always in turmoil with one battle or one war or another being waged. The Greco-Roman world consists of the al...
covenant between God and humanity, a covenant that was the fulfillment of prophecy but also one that included all of humanity. T...
In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
became less sure of their eternal salvation (Council, 2004). Thus, the tenuous relationship between government and Christianity m...
events of the faith, such as God coming to earth in the form of man only once. It was also created out of love. "Although the worl...
obvious, even if one had not heard the laws of God as such, this ignorance has never constituted an excuse for sin. As this indica...