YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Looking for God in Science Fiction
Essays 1651 - 1678
This essay is a draft for a homily that would have been delivered shortly after the tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. The homily disc...
This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...
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...
came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
of Gods existence; even in "leaving" God to come to earth Jesus remained with the Father. Though physically separate, spiritually...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
also suggests that battle was not only crucial, but perhaps desired. We also note that in some legends Odin sacrificed one of h...
sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...
knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...
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...
the conflict in terms of an insult to his personal honor. Homer writes that Achilles responded by telling Agamemnon, "Ah me, cloth...
main gods of the Sumerians included the god of water (Enki); the god of earth (Ki); the god of air (Enlil) and the god of heaven (...
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...
groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...
but rather it is Poseidon who hates him. Zeus says, "...its the Earth-Shaker, Poseidon, unappeased,/forever fuming against him for...
her and keeps her confined out of jealousy. Things get worse as he begins to physically and emotionally abuse her. She eventual...
God that is insufficiently explained by philosophy is referred to as "knowing" (Christian Gospel and Our Culture, 2004). "Knowing...
boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...
Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...