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'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins

In 5 pages this poem featuring nature is analyzed in terms of how it represents the poet's Catholicism. There are 5 sources cited...

Morality As Seen by Austustinians and Thomists

Thomists and Augustinians are concerned primarily with issues of morality. This paper examines the two theologies and how they vie...

Biblical Adam and the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In 7 pages these two creations are compared in terms of the intentions of their creators and the reactions they inspired with God ...

Man's Sins and God's Holiness

In eight pages four questions on these topics are asked and answered. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Old Testament God's Volatile Nature

just as many parents find they have to resort to what has come to be known as "tough love," God of the Hebrew scriptures certainly...

'Narrative of the Captivity & Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson' and the Puritan Covenant

In this six page paper Mary Rowlandson's relationship with God symbolizes the Puritan covenant and sustains her through her captur...

Topics Covered in God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane

people, is just beginning to form at the time of the novels action. The main thrust of the action agitates for fairness within a c...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene and Teleology

In 1 page a teleological analysis of this novel by Ousmane Sembene is presented. There is 1 source cited in the bibliography....

God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane

In five pages this paper examines the strike of Senegal's railway employees as examined in this novel by Ousmane with women's role...

All God’s Dangers

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...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

Genesis/An Overview

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

Nietzsche's Philosophy

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

God's Existence and Logic

believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...

Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

Gender Roles and the Impacts of Cultural and Social Inflences

doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...

The Cultures of Ancient China and Greece

gods in the form of logic, reasoning and wisdom (Chung, 2002). Homers work placed gods in a position that was superior to man. In...

William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Modernism

her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...

Questions on Personal Philosophies Answered

Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

God's Existence and the Design Argument

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

Examining Two Aspects of Islamic History

son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...

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...

Philosophers on God's Existence

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

Evil and God

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...

Christ in Evolution According to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...

Saint Anselm and the Noncontradiction Laws

In five pages this paper discusses Saint Anselm's 2 proofs regarding the God concept and the noncontradiction laws along with thes...

Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche on Joy, Will, and Knowledge

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7:29

and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...