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The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The focus of Bonhoeffers work, then, is shaped by an emerging understanding of the conflicts and struggles of religious conviction...

Books on Catholic Revivalism Contrasted

In five pages this research paper compares and contrasts Madonna of 115th Street by Robert Orsi and Catholic Revivalism by Jay P. ...

Thinking Orientals by Henry Yu and The Wages of Whiteness by David Roediger

Thinking Orientals by Henry Yu and The Wages of Whiteness by David Roediger are contrasted and compared in 8 pages. Two sources a...

Muslims and the Example Set by the Life of Mohammed

to note that Mohammed was born into a poor family and was not unlike other great men who came from poverty. While that is the case...

Spiritual Development in Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

Spiritual development in European religious orders during the 12th century are discussed in an overview of Historia Calamitatum by...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

Strategic Thinking and Its Practical Applications

of a statistical area that has many goals. In addition to needing to meet specific deadlines to fulfill filing requirements and su...

Islamic Pilgrimage Known as the Hajj

(Al-Imran); Verse 97 (ICM). The Hajj is considered a fulfillment of the Fifth Pillar of Islam but is also considered as a time whe...

India and Hinduism

Interestingly enough, the Hindu religion is not one single religion per se, but rather, a collection of customs, traditions, belie...

Sexuality and Women in Hebrew and Greek Cultures

This paper discusses women's sexuality in these cultures in a comparative analysis of Robert Francoeur's The Religious Suppression...

Christianity History and Significance of 'Church Order'

holding certain truths? The members of the Church are united, not by their belief in certain men, but by their belief in certain ...

H.G. Wells' 'Time Machine' and Adolf Hitler's Thoughts

feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...

Nursing and Critical Thinking

should be emphasized that some nurses see their function in a more spiritual manner. They take their role as a calling to help tho...

Analyzing 'The Great Armada' Chapter of Herman Melville's Moby Dick

vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...

Connection Between Making Decisions and Critical Thinking

looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, his values, beliefs, experiences, conditions and development; contrarily, huma...

Philosophy and On Independent Thought Q and A

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

Perspectives on Time

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

Christianity and Buddhism

other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...

Critical Thinking and Language

t hat has been linked to complex problem solving and other forms of higher cognition, such as deriving abstract principles and cha...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Grandmother's Changes

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

Comparing Jesus Christ to Paul the Apostle

churches, though many were convened in his name. Most of the accounts of Jesus in the Bible talk about large crowds of people that...

The Thought Evolution of Althusser

is questionable. Just how similar are the theories? What are the differences between them? Finally, how and why did Althusser "re-...

Christian Church and Capital Punishment

the topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...

European Thinking, Change, and Poetry

a vase and ask of what the pictures speak: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,...

Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam Sacred Texts

is a predominant part of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism alike even today. are replete with legends, some of which are passed o...

The Upanishads and the Atman

same in his "Heart Sura" (Upanishads). The term "Atman" refers to the immortal aspect of mortal existence (Atman-the Soul Eterna...

The Ancient City of Palenque

In a five page paper the ancient Mayan city of Palenque is examined in terms of its religious and historical influences and how th...

Human Condition and Morality Thoughts

on around him and within his community regardless of what that community might be. The Revenge of Conscience...

Gene Therapy and Shaywitz and Ausiello's Back To The Future

the care of humanity. "As stewards of God, "made in Gods image and likeness... we are not simulating a divine role ... we are car...

Political Reflections in 'The Inferno' and Divine Comedy of Dante

the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...