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Comparing Sermons of Samson Occom and Jonathan Edwards

Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...

The God of Small Things and Sexual Transgression's Dark Reality Symbolism

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

Concept of God as Trinity

Chief among notable theologians to undertake study of this matter is Jurgen Moltmann, and his philosophy is often referred to as t...

Overview of Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Objective and Formal Reality According To Descartes

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

'Image of God' and Humanity Implications

of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Gods, and Odysseus

journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemakhos in Ithaka. The gods and goddesses also shape the poem structurally, and are ...

Literary Fiction and Self Discovery

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Comparative Analysis of Hegel and Kant

In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...

Gender Relations in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Sweat' and Their Eyes Were Watching God

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

Religion Exploration

America, they worked very hard to convert the Native American Indians, who obviously did not believe in Jesus Christ. The new set...

Paul K. Conkin's When All the Gods Trembled

human origins. He discusses the beliefs maintained by the three major Semitic religions and then discusses the role of Charles Dar...

Ancient Cultural Development and Anthropomorphic Gods

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

Earth and Heaven According to Dante Alighieri and Augustine of Hippo

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

Man and the Creation of Fear and God

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

Searching for Urban Theology

This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

Agape Love, Views of Paul Tillich

This essay offers an overview of the views of theologian Paul Tillich in regards to agape love and the role it plays in defining i...

Church of God in Christ (COGIC), History and Ordination

This essay offers an overview of the history and the ordination for the ministry processes that pertain to the Church of God in Ch...

B.C. Johnson's Philosophy

to the theist these two elements are not inherently intertwined with one another. The baby did burn in the fire and the baby will...

Andrew Marvell's 'The Garden'

man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...

Existence of God in Swinburne, Rowe, and Hume

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

Existence of God and Proof

Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, not in the realm...

Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome

does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...

Defending Thomas Aquinas' Proof God Exists

basic argument that Aquinas presents for the existence of God. The following is just one way in which this could be addressed: A...