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Affliction Thoughts and Waiting for God by Simone Weil

In six pages this paper examines affliction in terms of social, physical, and spiritual as contemplated by Simone Weil in Waiting ...

Affliction and Waiting for God by Simone Weil

In six pages this paper examines affliction and its philosophical implications within the context of Simone Weil's Waiting for God...

Protagonists' Waiting in Waiting for Godot

up life. Most people will not do this, although there are some who are willing. Some of the kamikaze pilots who crashed into build...

Objectivism versus Spirituality in Works by Ayn Rand and Simone Weil

In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between these two philosophies as represented in the texts The Virtue of Selfis...

The Natural Mind of Andrew Weil

In five pages this research paper uses Weil's text to make the argument that alternative medicine should be combined with conventi...

Drugs and Dr. Andrew Weil

worship and spirituality was heathen and evil. Dr. Weil wrote in his book, THE NATURAL MIND - An Investigation of Drugs and the Hi...

God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene

theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

Knowledge of God

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...

God's Perfect Judgment

did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...

The Theme of Waiting as Exemplified in Waiting for Godot

one of waiting. Is this what man was meant to do? In Waiting for Godot, playwright Samuel Beckett explores these ideas as well a...

Commissioning a Health Care Facility

few points of the requirements of HVAC design and execution in the new health care facility, but they demonstrate the complexity i...

Wait Time for Patients For Receiving Copies of Records

some studies that address waiting times that patients invest in seeing physicians, however. McCarthy, McGee and OBoyle (2000) pro...

Waiting of Vladimir in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Vladimir is unable to tell the story because he is continually interrupted by Estragon. He never finishes the story. In other word...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

American Labor

put the machine in his place. But the machine has not always been kind to man. In fact, labor unions came into being almost as so...

Paul Johnson's Modern Times

created the modern political zealot--and his crimes--so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the...

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

In five pages Nelson Mandela's book is analyzed with reactions and the writer's personal thoughts also included....

Abstract Thought, Language, and a God Capable of Transcending Creation

In five pages this paper presents an insightful conversation regarding whether or not a God transcending creation can be meaningfu...

The Similarities in Thinking of Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Augustine

In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that despite living in different times these men's concepts and thoughts were...

Miracles and David Hume

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

Justo L. Gonzalez and Soren Kierkegaard Compared

his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Karl Barth's Christology

more certain that any consideration of Gods relationship to humanity must also consider the presence of God as manifested in the p...

The Prophet Amos

sword (Amos 7:11). Amos explained who he was: "I was neither a prophet nor a prophets son, but I was a shepherd . . . But the Lor...

Why is there Evil?

well as atrocities instigated by one group of human beings against another or by individuals, one can often hear the comment that ...

Theological Issues

called the Son of God" (Aherne). In John 1:49, Nathaniel, at their first meeting, referred to Jesus as the Son of God (Aherne). Wh...

Evil in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...

What is a Religious Experience?

to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...

God's Existence and Knowledge

In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...