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Heroes

as his hero. Achilles Achilles is the greatest of the Greek heroes fighting against the Trojans. As the poem begins, the war ha...

Personal Statement - What Children Mean To Me

day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...

Jesus as Exorcist

"unclean spirits knew who Jesus was" (Davies 94). Jesus method of exorcism was to "cast out demons by the spirit of God" (Davies 9...

The Counter-Cultural Jesus In Mark's Gospel

little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone ...

Wright: "The Challenge of Jesus"

and lay persons; those he calls the "next generation of thinking Christians" (Wright). In order to reach these people, however, he...

Hypostatic Union : Jesus As God And Man

a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...

Nicaean Creed & Trinitarian Doctrine

A 15 page research paper that examines documents associated with the early Christian Church, such as "The Nicene Creed," as well ...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

Exclusivism vs. Inclusivism: An Examination of the Question of Who Will Reach Heaven

heaven. This theory places a considerable weight on morality as a deciding factor in determining our final fate. The logic is th...

The Coming of Jesus Christ

offer mankind salvation through faith. He was put to death and rose from the dead. Aside from this the various Christian faiths po...

Historical Jesus

Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however ...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ According to the Gospels of John and Mark

is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...

Scholarly Issues and Controversy Regarding Marian Literature

the Mediterranean. Haarmann asserts that Marian devotion continues "the ancient goddess cults, and, thus, is a reflection of thei...

Mary, Mother of Jesus and Marian Literature

This paper examines the pertinent literature and ongoing controversy surrounding Mary, mother of Jesus, as well as her role in the...

Holy Spirit, Church, and Faith

Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...

The Changing Face of Jesus by Geza Vermes

"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...

Teacher Role of Jesus

comprehend Jesus lessons, i.e. his parables, better when they consider them in the context of "drohrede," a literary genre centra...

Mark Tully's Four Faces A Journey in Search of Jesus the Divine Reviewed

that he did - when the masses desperately needed a "human" religion to cling to - was something that helped boost Jesus to "divine...

Slaughterhouse Five Analysis

of nearly every day of his childhood" (38). The fact that the crucifix depicts a dead Jesus is significant because it represents ...

The Resurrection

This paper consists of five pages and discusses claims made by both theologians, John Dominic Crossan and Caroline Walker Bynum, ...

Money and the Views of Jesus

the tables of the moneychangers in the temple. Besides the symbolism of this act, which was to purify the temple from a "den of th...

Reconsideration of Incarnation

"Christians" would gather before dawn and recite a "hymn" to Christ, as if "to a god" (Shelley 22). These hymns, which can be date...

Analysis of 'Enoch Arden' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...

Questioning Who Jesus is and What He Represents

accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...

How Mrs. Turpin Chooses Between Two Choices from Jesus

of it that easily. This is remedied by the fact that she is given a very difficult choice to make. Does she want to be black, or...

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

Christology/Who do you say I am?

Jesus was more divine than he was human (Meacham 40). The issue that underscored the early ecumenical councils, once incidental ri...

Faith and Humor

In eight pages this paper examines the use of humor in religion and faith in a consideration of Jesus, Isaac, and faith supporters...