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Enlightenment's Age of Reason and Thomas Paine

In five pages this essay argues in support of the effectiveness of Thomas Paine's preference for reason over supernatural faith. ...

The Last of Cheri, The Handmaid's Tale, Beloved, and Faith

In four pages faith and its importance in these literary works and the characters featured within are discussed. There are no oth...

Religion Theme and the Narrative of Mary Rowlandson

In two pages this essay examines the thematic importance of faith and religion in the narrative of Mary Rowlandson. There is no b...

A Comparison of the Autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin, Mary Rowlandson, & Olaudah Equinao

This paper compares and contrasts the lives of three influential early Americans. The themes of freedom, faith, and inspiration in...

Hope and Faith in Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach

Three stories featured in Yaffa Eliach's text are discussed in six pages as each relates to the power of world restoration represe...

Strength of Will and Compassion in Frederick Douglass's Narrative

In four pages this paper examines how the author's characteristics of perseverance, faith in the truth, gift for observation, educ...

A Fictional Account of a Faith-Based Journey

as many people as possible. In other words, they took literally the Biblical injunction to carry the Good News throughout all the ...

Mass Media and Its Problems

In five pages this paper examines problems including public loss of faith, prejudices, and stereotypes as they pertain to the mass...

Caravaggio/The Entombment

to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...

Historical Jesus And Christ Of Faith

one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...

Traditional and New Religions

arise while old ones splinter, and although some hold out hope that interfaith work will lead to peace, others seem determined to ...

Craven's What's the Worst that Could Happen?

Rationality of the Magic Grid Cravens risk or credibility grid has been called many things, most of them related...

Thomas Aquinas, On Law

reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...

Questions of Religion

revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...

Impact Of Edict Of Milan On Christian Liturgy

the Church and to members of the Church (NationMaster, 2008). This is an important part of the Edict because it set the stage for ...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

Christian Ethics

In looking at the Bible, and better understanding ones approach, it appears as though John possesses something of a "present escha...

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

Catholic Social Teaching

faith" (Sharing Catholic). This document explains that Catholic social teaching is founded on a "commitment to the poor," which ar...

Corporate Governance

not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

Faith-Based Prison Programs/Constitutionality

offer "equitable access to 31 faiths, including Baptist, Jewish, Native American and Rastafarian" (Padgett, 2004, p. 50). Neverthe...

The Virtues Of Love, Faith And Respect

see past all the trappings. We see the essence of the other person. We see their potential. We practice what St. Paul wrote: "Love...

Theology of Missions

New Testament is diverse and encompasses multiple and, sometimes, conflicting perspectives. One of the most intriguing of these ...

Community and Sri Lankan, Hindu Heritage

from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...

Empire of Faith; the Early 20th Century in the Middle East

has made it and its faith-the overwhelming number of Middle Easterners are Muslim-a center of world attention for decades. This pa...

Mormonism in America

religions in the world. This paper looks briefly at its establishment in the American West. Discussion The putative founder of Mo...

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

The Natural Philosophy of Aristotle

In a paper consisting of five pages Aristotle's natural philosophy is considered within the context of the contemporary world in t...

James I and Martin Luther on Authority's Source and Nature

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of power articulated in the speech 'True Law of Free Monarchies' by James...