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In five pages this text by Jean Bethke Elshtain is analyzed in its portrayal of Augustine and how it represents the limitations of...
"middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his sinful or evil behavior, he mainta...
text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...
Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...
an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...
crucial doctrines as creation, incarnation and resurrection (61). Born around 130 A.D., Irenaeus of Lyons was primarily a pastor...
Augustine, himself, mentions his own difficulties in struggling to overcome his own lustful desires in Book III of Confessions. Du...
2001). In many ways St. Augustines life would serve as a bridge between pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages (ODonnell, 2001)...
of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...
In five pages this paper examines the contributions of Saint Augustine to philosophy's history and development. Five sources are ...
In eight pages this paper examines writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and others in a consideration of the marriage concept an...
In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...
the many delights of civilization, and thus showing Enkidu this type of pleasure is important (PG). Enkidu himself however sees i...
In seven pages faith as described in Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard and Confessions by St. Augustine are contrasted and compare...
In six pages this paper discusses some student posed questions on philosophy and theology with science and natural harmony conside...
n.d.). God knew that humans would use their free will for evil but He also knew that good would emerge through His Grace (Anderson...
the human soul, the other for evil and matter, including the body(Gilson 3-66). However, when he became dissatisfied with the mat...
seems to be known about the education of Mark. The author of this gospel is believed to have been John Mark, the cousin of Barnaba...
fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...
nine Books relate Augustines life up to the death of his mother and then, the story takes an abrupt turn as Augustine puts forth h...
and other shows have introduced a world of learning to toddlers and the preschool set. There are educational shows for adults and ...
on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...
As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...
tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...
That system is based on three principals: 1. God is absolute Master, by His grace, of all the determinations of the will; 2. man ...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...
In five pages this paper examines how evil is conceptualized by St. Augustine of Hippo in this early theological text. Three sour...