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crucial doctrines as creation, incarnation and resurrection (61). Born around 130 A.D., Irenaeus of Lyons was primarily a pastor...

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

2001). In many ways St. Augustines life would serve as a bridge between pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages (ODonnell, 2001)...

Augustine, himself, mentions his own difficulties in struggling to overcome his own lustful desires in Book III of Confessions. Du...

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

the many delights of civilization, and thus showing Enkidu this type of pleasure is important (PG). Enkidu himself however sees i...

In seven pages faith as described in Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard and Confessions by St. Augustine are contrasted and compare...

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

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...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

nine Books relate Augustines life up to the death of his mother and then, the story takes an abrupt turn as Augustine puts forth h...

n.d.). God knew that humans would use their free will for evil but He also knew that good would emerge through His Grace (Anderson...

the human soul, the other for evil and matter, including the body(Gilson 3-66). However, when he became dissatisfied with the mat...

seems to be known about the education of Mark. The author of this gospel is believed to have been John Mark, the cousin of Barnaba...

In five pages this paper examines how evil is conceptualized by St. Augustine of Hippo in this early theological text. Three sour...

Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...

something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...

either good or evil. There was no "middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his...

That system is based on three principals: 1. God is absolute Master, by His grace, of all the determinations of the will; 2. man ...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...

This paper consists of five pages and presents a survey that concludes in the U.S. political parties are still important. Three s...

programs and results can be explained ... as the result of social interests" (Campa). There is another group of constructivists le...

how socially shocking they might be. Lucys mother always has the best intentions and willing to share openly her thoughts and fe...

"factory" typically conjures in the mind of the modern reader has actually very little to do with what factories, as a whole, were...

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

From a personal perspective, I find that listening to music is a valuable form of self-expression that is prominent in my life. I ...

Venezuelan border would become a point of contention with Great Britain and ownership of Cuba would become the focus of the Spanis...