YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :John Donne and God
Essays 691 - 720
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...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...
He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...
there is more to earning a paycheck but the individual needs to search themselves to find out what their priorities are and what p...
and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...
born to Mary, a virgin, lived among men, preached for three years, was crucified and rose from the dead. He did this to save human...
they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...
one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...
does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...
want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...
for them, allowing them to live in a state of perfection. But, in so doing Adam and Eve would not have had free will. They would h...
be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...
them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...
it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...
nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...
about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...
verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...
God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...
to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...
casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...
instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...
- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...
age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...
the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...
throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...
choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...