YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Belief in God and Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Essays 31 - 60
knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...
sweet unto me" (II, I). It seems that Augustine wants to review the past in order to share the journey to the present, and to rem...
This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...
his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...
In five pages this paper examines a Supreme Personal Being's role in the religious experiences with beliefs addressed in the philo...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these men's concepts regarding personal development, selfhood, despair, and fait...
This is a 2 part report that consists of 5 pages and first considers the freedoms depicted in Dostoevsky's text and then discusses...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...
Human nature is to invent explanations for events and occurrences that are intuitively appealing. Example...
do not even attempt to explain it. You either believe or you dont. The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity evolved over many years and ...
- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...
theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
In ten pages this research paper presents arguments on God's existence both pro and con and discusses beliefs of atheists. Eight ...
In seven pages this paper examines whether or not the human belief in God's existence is reasonable. Eight sources are cited in t...
reverence that can only be achieved through understanding the esoteric aspects of the three worlds. "The experiential and devotio...
On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...
or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...
is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...
did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...
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 ...
As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...
seems to possess a great deal of truth. According to Machiavelli, the conventional wisdom is that a prince "should try not to ins...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...