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This 5 page paper gives an overview of the Greek god Apollo. This paper includes what areas of life Apollo ruled over and how he w...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Gaiman's "American Gods". The dichotomy between old and new gods in the text is show...

This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...

The Holy Trinity is one of Christianity’s most esoteric mysteries. It is confounding, at best. There is one God but three distinct...

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

of the law was marrying a Philistine. He wen to Timnah, saw a woman, and told his parents to get that woman for him to marry. His ...

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

group, which itself was a well-regarded and well-educated order (Harris, 2001). As an advocate for a strong papacy, he commanded a...

accompanying their masters into combat, carrying their shields and armor as needed (Nance, 2003). The purpose of such individuals,...

believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...

that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...

at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...

occurred in theological understanding in the last one hundred years (Doran, 1997; Ormerod, 1996). What was once a relative uniform...

constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...