YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Gods and Mortals
Essays 511 - 540
"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...
so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
Chief among notable theologians to undertake study of this matter is Jurgen Moltmann, and his philosophy is often referred to as t...
with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...
In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...
America, they worked very hard to convert the Native American Indians, who obviously did not believe in Jesus Christ. The new set...
addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...
tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...
human origins. He discusses the beliefs maintained by the three major Semitic religions and then discusses the role of Charles Dar...
In five pages this 1989 movie's portrayal of ethical and moral considerations is examined along with a discussion of how it portra...
reliance on Gods righteousness, he became determined to seek revenge upon the landowners family. However, before he could do so af...
Son of God. Likewise, Paul testified that that he beheld the "glory of God in the face of Christ" (2 Cor.4:6) on the road to Dama...
Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...
as acceptable. If the issue in question happens to be acceptable to two-thirds of the population (upper class elitists), it is hi...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
given to the primary gods and goddesses; this was true from Homeric times on but perhaps it goes back to the Minoan and Mycenaean ...
his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...
proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...
death (As To Posthumous). There is one chapter, for instance, called "The Death of Jean" which was written just four months prior...
and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...