SEARCH RESULTS

still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...

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...

"middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his sinful or evil behavior, he mainta...

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...

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

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

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

This paper consists of six pages and considers how Manicheism is gradually rejected by St. Augustine in an examination of the fift...

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

African parents. His mother was Catholic and his father converted to Christianity in his later years. As a boy, Augustine studied ...

to Augustine, this transformative power for human beings is so profound that, once it occurs, the Christian can "love and do whate...

not be found unless it were in ones memory. Chapter XIX tells what it is to remember. In Augustines...

In five pages this essay provides a comparison of two passages in Fear and Trembling regarding Kierkegaard's Abraham theory and co...

of what it means to lead a Christian life. Kierkegaard identified three stages, or modes, of life?the aesthetic, the ethical, and...

In three pages the writer criticizes Kierkegaard's argument and counters the philosophical logic used in the contention that reaso...

In five pages Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's solution to Problemata I featured in his text Fear and Trembling is discussed...

when he has found what he sought, he wanders before every mans door with his song and with his oration, that all may admire the he...

sweet unto me" (II, I). It seems that Augustine wants to review the past in order to share the journey to the present, and to rem...

her actions as an individual and as a member of the military? Or is there a different moral principle at play? Only Hester can say...

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

of Western superiority, is the only correct view. By this novels end, it is clear that what Price calls "faith" is rather cultur...

rise to apprehension and fear, the individual then takes refuge in conscious reflection, which forms the second stage. However, th...

written on papers he handed Joe. He then said: "before you head out, there is something I want to change about your work habits. ...

in this case the history of religions, any particular "religion" does not seem to mean a great deal. Faith is a very personal issu...

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...