YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Essays 631 - 660
This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...
This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...
This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...
This essay is a book review that pertains to David McGrinn's God, Why Was I Born Gay? Biology, the Bible and the Homosexual Debate...
If we show that Jesus Christ is the Second Person in the Holy Trinity, we also demonstrate that Jesus is the Son of God, which is ...
God uses to point to Himself as the power (Samons, 2012). Examples of miracles in the Old Testament include God parting the Red S...
This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...
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 ...
This essay is a draft for a homily that would have been delivered shortly after the tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. The homily disc...
This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...
"probably influence a greater number of important decisions than do statistical projects, opinion polls, consultants reports or ev...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...
He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...
son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...
as it is with pure identity based on the unique woman that Janie is. Janies life is one that is likely very realistic as many Af...
unimportant, appearing merely as part of the background and playing not real role in Janies life. In her introduction to the no...
carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...
the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...
As would be expected there has been a great deal of outcry about this particular ruling. For example, one senator stated, "This is...
main gods of the Sumerians included the god of water (Enki); the god of earth (Ki); the god of air (Enlil) and the god of heaven (...
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
been utilized in the protection of public interest, especially when issues of safety can be impacted by widespread public response...
came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...
between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...
but rather it is Poseidon who hates him. Zeus says, "...its the Earth-Shaker, Poseidon, unappeased,/forever fuming against him for...