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out of favor as a more philosophical approach took over. In more recent years, however, the fundamentalist and evangelical movemen...
its right-wing allies, "he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but is our son-of-a-bitch" (Schmitz 4). Schmitz traces the origin of this ch...
that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...
God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...
literary critics, philosophers, and even theologians have questioned and considered for centuries. That Which Cannot be Known A...
on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
hundred years ago the God that Americans envisioned is highly different than the God envisioned today. Today we can see God take o...
natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine maje...
needs of the spirit, which were outlined through divine law (Pierce, 2002). The law of nature, Epictetus believed, was that the be...
find faith during their times of troubles (Kushner, 1981; Muder, 2002). In the Introduction to the book "Why I Wrote This Book" K...
throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...
his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...
and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...
gods in the form of logic, reasoning and wisdom (Chung, 2002). Homers work placed gods in a position that was superior to man. In...
the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...
itself" (Covington, 2001, p. 90). The gardens mirrored the "air of grandeur" that French royalty itself sought to embody (De Nolh...
doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...
there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...
Theres no justice in this world. The poor get cheated and the rich get off." He states that this proves God does not exist. Bar...
that man is separated from God: "God is on one side and all the people on the other side" (1 Timothy 2:5a). It is mans sin that se...
death (As To Posthumous). There is one chapter, for instance, called "The Death of Jean" which was written just four months prior...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...
reliance on Gods righteousness, he became determined to seek revenge upon the landowners family. However, before he could do so af...
Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...
Son of God. Likewise, Paul testified that that he beheld the "glory of God in the face of Christ" (2 Cor.4:6) on the road to Dama...
his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
given to the primary gods and goddesses; this was true from Homeric times on but perhaps it goes back to the Minoan and Mycenaean ...