YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Essays 241 - 270
she would give him a whipping with a belt. These beatings only reinforced Willies belief that the best way to settle problem situa...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
God, and that it is not something that is external or intrinsic to man. In other words, morality does not come from a force outsid...
proving background and an exegetical discussion. Commentaries and other authorities are referenced in this paper. Historical Con...
no means ironic. It refers to the characters of Tea Cake and Janie for the most part and the title of this book comes to life in a...
however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...
if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...
(Dearman, 1998) and we often hear that phrase being used to describe the relationship between Israel and God. He was the living Go...
Native Americans. Lets consider the Greeks briefly because their gods are familiar. We are dealing here with Zeus, the King of t...
a household that is constantly physically abused by the father. He is a product of colonization and Catholicism and believes that ...
Observations help the researcher to formulate initial descriptions and explanations of the phenomenon being explored; they may als...
by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...
earliest in 1881, and again in 1920, 1925, and 1938; the strike that Sembene uses in his novel is the one that took place in 1947 ...
to bring a great flood that would cover the earth but Noah was a righteous man and God decided to save humanity through Noah and H...
than a man can do the same for God, if there is a God. In essence, if God exists then God is a being that is capable of creating a...
was very connected to a slave culture yet also grew up in a land that was supposedly more free in relationship to the African Amer...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...
a variety of stories in a variety of ways. First, Dionysus is a contradictory god. He does things that might surprise people bec...
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...
reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...