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Women in a repressive, male chauvinistic society -- such as in the time of Augustinian law -- must do what they have to in order...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's characterization was influenced by the philosophies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Plat...
choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...
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...
In six pages this paper discusses some student posed questions on philosophy and theology with science and natural harmony conside...
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...
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 ...
something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...
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...
like St. Augustine, a man from centuries before, was of the same mind, he clearly would have influenced the people and made them s...
death in the usual manner, but rather as a good looking young man who is apparently capable of falling in love with an attractive ...
the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...
but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
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...
is pleasure derived from worshiping the Triune God. In Book II, Augustine discusses further the subject of signs. He defines wha...
the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...
and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...
text. Augustine is explaining that he was more emotionally in tune with Greek classic literature than he was with his own spirit...
of the debt and obligations that put opposing pressures on it, sending it reeling toward its inevitable conclusion--calamity. ...
Shedd (1886) points out that Augustine is especially guilty of this in the last eight chapters/Books. This may be because the firs...
engine of aesthetic development throughout Western Europe for much of history. This can be seen in the patronage of artists by Chr...