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In five pages this paper discusses the life and work of Saint Teresa in this review of the book by Mary Frohlich on this important...
secular world of today as they were in her strongly religious time of the 16th century. Her words and instructions are valid and b...
These souls are so preoccupied with "worldly things and so absorbed in possessions, honor or business affairs...that even though a...
prayer and, ultimately, began to experience visions. During those visions she was outwardly the same but inwardly she was filed w...
St. Teresa (1515-1582) was born in Avila as Teresa de Ahumada, the daughter of a prosperous family that likely would be middle cla...
This essay discusses the baroque era and how Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter and Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa reflect th...
was bred, as were the pests which transmitted it" (Perisca, 2006). In this town Marias father went to work as a sharecropper, in p...
she suffered a paralyzing illness - her illnesses were depicted not as physical in nature but as her souls struggles against tempt...
natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine maje...
appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there ...
imperfections, habitual natural and spiritual, and which is called by contemplatives infused contemplation, or mystical theology" ...
This 15 page paper discusses the way in which three religious writers, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Martin Buber and Teresa of Avila...
a moderate tempo, the strings playing a staccato bass line, with a lilting melody above. The bass line suggests dancers, whose ste...
doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...
John is largely a national park. St. Thomas boasts a deepwater harbor. St. Croix has rolling hills. All three are special touri...
In five pages the influence of classical antiquity on the architecture and art of the European Middle Ages are considered in the a...
of Asia within San Francisco. One finds themselves, a few short blocks from the business district of the city, smack dab in the mi...
Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
In five pages this paper examines two early Dutch settlements in the Caribbean. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares these Christian theologians in terms of their similarities and differenc...
In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
In eight pages this paper examines writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and others in a consideration of the marriage concept an...
times. By a rescript of Septimus Severus (193-211) all imperial subjects were forbidden under severe penalties to become Christian...
generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
He is a fairly old man, and is the figure of "St. Jerome (c. 342-420), one of the four great Doctors of the Western Church, is ven...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
he should live a contemplative life of prayer or an active life of spreading the gospel to the world (Hammond 14). This led Franci...