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public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...

slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...

but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...

Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...

thematic content. The whole emphasis of the narrative in Matthew is on scriptures being fulfilled via the life of Jesus (Wright, 1...

therefore, offers interpretation of them through various reflections, narratives, and discourses (John, 2003). The first sign is t...

my Beloved, with you I am well pleased (Luke 4:32) (Willimon, 2001, p. 7). The scene reminds the reader of the account of the crea...

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

the tables of the moneychangers in the temple. Besides the symbolism of this act, which was to purify the temple from a "den of th...

pronouncements express a similar orientation, they are actually quite different because the positive form encompasses a "greater e...

that he did - when the masses desperately needed a "human" religion to cling to - was something that helped boost Jesus to "divine...

of it that easily. This is remedied by the fact that she is given a very difficult choice to make. Does she want to be black, or...

"Christians" would gather before dawn and recite a "hymn" to Christ, as if "to a god" (Shelley 22). These hymns, which can be date...

accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

comprehend Jesus lessons, i.e. his parables, better when they consider them in the context of "drohrede," a literary genre centra...

"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...

the Mediterranean. Haarmann asserts that Marian devotion continues "the ancient goddess cults, and, thus, is a reflection of thei...

This paper examines the pertinent literature and ongoing controversy surrounding Mary, mother of Jesus, as well as her role in the...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

where there is only anguish, grief and regret. The clear message of this passage is that the true believer, the true Christian, is...

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

God. Even people who do miracles or cast out demons or who prophecy will automatically enter the Kingdom of God. Jesus never said ...

This book review pertains to Donald Kraybill's Upside Down Kingdom, in which the author focuses on the radical nature of the mini...

Trinity was revealed throughout Scripture. He is an integral part of everything that was done and said. It is through the Spirits ...

Son. Joseph was a carpenter in a small village. Nazareth was a farming village but it was also a hub for the market which made i...