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Analysis of the Phrases 'The Reign of God' and 'The Kingdom of God' and Their Meanings

scholars. In Matthew 25, Jesus says that when the hungry are fed and the blind can see and the naked are clothed, that will signif...

Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'God's Grandeur'

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

Christ's and God's Images

reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...

God's Doctrine as Interpreted by Gordon Kaufman, Pamela Young, and Sallie McFague

evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...

God's Image and Genesis

under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...

St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa (1515-1582) was born in Avila as Teresa de Ahumada, the daughter of a prosperous family that likely would be middle cla...

Substance Dualism: Descartes, Spinoza and Berkeley

and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...

Genesis/An Overview

the narratives in the books to come (Friedman 295). In Genesis, everything builds on everything else. Therefore, in order to under...

Elephants, Rhinos, Kob Antelope, Leopards And Buffalo: Meaning In African Art

presence or a leopards sleek passage. One pertinent example of their dual power as animals in African art is the Cameroon elephan...

Philosophy And Skepticism

including moral evil. Epicurus, by contrast, believed just the opposite and openly asserted how the gods have no sway over anyone...

Sartre's Vision Of The Human Condition

of making choices through free will despite the perpetual attempt to define their existence as being driven by determinism. ...

Romans 5, Lines One Through Five Concerning Peace with God, Access to God's Glory, and Growth through Suffering

In ten pages this paper analyzes Paul's teachings regarding God and peace, glory, and growth. Twelve sources are cited in the bib...

Scientific Determinism: Undermines Basic Principles?

is entirely necessitated, as the motions of any mechanism must be. Thus the causes of the human mechanisms choices and actions ar...

The Bhagavad Gita

karma, the single-most component of unethical behavior. People are constantly judged; every moment of every day, all that they do...

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Chemical And Biological Weapons: Dangers Posed To Human Existence

in 1984 with the implementation of its first agent. "Irans motives for seeking nuclear weapons stem from its rivalry with Iraq, f...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Plato's Contribution to Understanding Philosophy and Philosophers

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

The Problem of Isolation as Evaluated by Existentialist Philosophers

is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...

The Child As A Moral Philosopher By Kohlberg

children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...

Carl L. Becker's "The Heavenly City Of The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers"

Christianity was based upon a vast compilation of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of pow...

Life and Works of Scottish Philosopher David Hume

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

A Review of The Structure of Christian Existence

This five page essay reviews the book by John B. Cobb, Jr. Two different views of Cobb are pursued. These views are formed around...

The Desire for Liberation from Our Earthly Existence and Hinduism

Arjuna is distraught by the obvious power of the opponent which he is about to face. He is even more distraught by the fact that ...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

Is There A Purpose In Human Existence?

with the heavens above have made astronomy the single most critical application with regard to his place in the universe. The ver...

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: THOUGHTFUL PHILOSOPHER OR NEW-AGE CRACKPOT?

namely that similarities between myths count the most, that myth must be interpreted nonliterally and that religions, for the most...

Philosophers on International Relations

donor for their present child in need of a transplant (1990). To Kant, that was wrong and while other segments of society would be...

E-Commerce, Physical Presence vs. On-Line Existence

This paper provides a discussion of the July/August 1999 report featured in the Harvard Business Review addressing a retailer's ph...