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In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

In eight pages Louis Dumont's From Mandeville to Marx The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology is examined through an applic...

sun and moon; animals, birds and fish; and finally, people. This took six days, and on the seventh day God rested from all this wo...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

creationism. The intelligent-design hypothesis (ID) has also recently gained public attention because of a science textbook, Of Pa...

In six pages the origins of this section of the Book of Genesis is interpreted in a variety of different ways. Six sources are ci...

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

evolution gauntlet and run with it. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is a plethora of others who continue to espou...

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

not concerned with the creation of man but rather with the creation and evolution of the cosmos. Eliade (1995), however, notes th...

or what God tells us to do with our treasure. Sadly, humans today are not very much different than Adam and Eve in many ways. It ...

1 Tim. 2:11-15 as indicating that Gods plan for the sexes is for male to dominate female. This New Testament passage directs women...

that neither knowledge nor life are two evils to be chosen between, but that they are both good. Why would God care to call either...

under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

debate in terms of wanting a peaceful and inner spiritual life and letting go of his past indiscretions (St. Augustine, Bishop of ...

fulfill His promise but the sinfulness of humans invaded Abrams and Sarais souls. They needed a child and Sarai blamed God for le...

occurrence of profitable variations" (Darwin IV). This offers the reader an understanding of how change and alteration creates new...

In the Hebrew Bible, women have varying roles but the most important roles are wife and mother. Most often, they are not seen as e...

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

(Tablet XI). As this indicates the Babylonian myth does not associate the disaster of the floor with any sort of immorality. Lik...

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

that he was born to ordinary means. The book to some extent busts through the myth that one has to be born into royalty in order ...

children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

This research paper offers an overview of a case study described by Lunney (2010). The analysis provided by Lunney demonstrates th...