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India, Social Change, and Eucharist

Soares Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Evil and Death

It also seems likely that for someone or something to consider death an evil, that entity must self-aware. Its unlikely (though we...

Darkness Visible by William Golding

takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wil...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Human Capacity for Evil

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

Evil and God

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...

Suffering and Evil

suffering: Why doesnt he participate, and why does he leave his faithful servants to suffer?5 These questions are fundamental to...

Religious Importance of Jerusalem

And finally, can the nature of Jerusalem as a "sacred space" for all three faiths "throw any light on the conduct of politicians a...

Christ's Teachings and the support of Gregory of Nyssa

a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...

Significance of Religion and Geography in the Middle East

the local political process (Ceasar, 2005). The Dawa party which is religious based was the top winner in that election (Ceasar, ...

Concept of Spirituality

from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...

Free Spirit Concept in Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

neighbor is henceforth called evil" (201). Evil does not come about by acts of omission but rather by deliberate intent. It is the...

Christianity and the Influence of Plato

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

Messiah Jesus Christ and Christology

including "Aaron and his successors" and "Moses and the Prophets" (Maas). Paul pictures Christ as being above the choirs of angels...

'Good Country People' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldnt answer to my conscience if I did" (OConnor). II. HULGA & THE MISFIT: RELIGIOUS FAIT...

Good and Evil in Sula by Toni Morrison

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

Symbolism and Themes in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Stories

an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

Conflict and 3 Abrahamic Religions

basis of the religion (Esposito, 1978). This began his quest for a true religion. Muhammad believed that both Judaism and Christi...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Religion

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

Same Sex Marriages and Religion

the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Billy and John Claggart in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...

Paul's Authority in Galatians

in Galatia." After his salutation, Paul goes right to the heart of the matter, which is that the people have been thrown into conf...

Early Christian Theology and Jesus

However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...

Religions of Asia

over the centuries, and in those changes we can see the way in which the teachings of the religion have turned outward to impact t...

Good and Evil in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolicall...

Faith and Mysticism

The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...

Zoroastrianism's Influences on World Religions

not accomplish this task until the end of time (Stepaniants, 2002). According to Zoroastrian cosmology, the history of humanity co...