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The Tragedy of Loss in "Paradise Lost"

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

Christian Leadership

be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...

Models Of The Church, Chapter 11 The Church And Revelation

about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...

Christopher Hitchens: “God is Not Great”

it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...

Is God Good?

for them, allowing them to live in a state of perfection. But, in so doing Adam and Eve would not have had free will. They would h...

CHICAGO'S ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Though the Fair itself was definitely a source of economic growth for Chicago, turning it from its vision as a "frontier town" int...

“Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America's Older Industrial Cities”

growth in the 1990s and economic well being of the city residents in 2000 (Vey, 2007). Two indices of economic health were create...

Green Building in New York City

problem in New York City, part of the effort will involved attention to buildings. First, what is a carbon footprint and why is it...

Changes in Understanding of the City

and industrial in both appearance and flavor, though a commentator notes that "it is a complex and visually stimulating structure"...

Imagery in Aguilar’s Luminous Cities

about Aguilars work, one author notes the following in relationship to intertextuality: "The concept of intertexuality thus dramat...

Elijah's Message

them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...

Proof of the Existence of God

account of their experience with God" (Adamson, 2008). Human beings are capable of many things, and capable of believing, ...

Why Monotheism is Not Rational

theories of evaluating this today, such as the Big Bang. That is, there may be a world that has come about, and a cause, but the c...

Novel Review of Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif

and its people would prosper as employees of this new American oil company venture, distinctions are almost immediately evident. ...

Book of Esther

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

Concepts of God

throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...

God & The Existence of Evil

choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...

Critique: “God in the Wasteland”

and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...

The Religious Orientation of the Deir el-Madina Villagers

It appears that the village had a relatively high level of it received compared to the rest of Egypt, possibly in excess of 50% co...

The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong

complex or larger than many families. In this basic setting one can see how the family is affected by the power of the nation an...

God in the Desert

forests and other vegetation; the teeming mass of life suggests that there is more than one god present. (This analysis of course ...

Nicaean Creed & Trinitarian Doctrine

A 15 page research paper that examines documents associated with the early Christian Church, such as "The Nicene Creed," as well ...

Compare And Contrast Five City Plans

process of a comprehensive update and upgrade and in 2003, the City Council adopted the new plan. This new plan includes a number ...

On Loving God By Bernard Of Clairvaux

loving God for our own sakes but then, we are able to love God for Himself. Question: Does Bernards work support the notion that...

Personal Vision Of Leadership

The transformational leader is one who creates a vision and a challenge for employees (Bryant, 2003). Burns, who initially postula...

Relationship Between God And Man - The Koran

it instructs people to accept Gods sovereignty and to submit to Gods will (Poonawala 2006). If God created everything, then, it fo...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

Gender Relations in A Tale of Two Cities

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

New York City Draft Riots of 1863

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...