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still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares each religious philosopher's arguments regarding man being separate from goodness a...
In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...
and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...
the human soul, the other for evil and matter, including the body(Gilson 3-66). However, when he became dissatisfied with the mat...
In five pages this paper examines how evil exists in the world in a comparative analysis of Saint Augustine of Hippo's Free Will d...
can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...
reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...
those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's characterization was influenced by the philosophies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Plat...
a certain inclination towards laziness. In discussing his childhood, Augustines theories toward education come out. He adamantly r...
Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...
tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...
In seven pages this paper examines how Thomas Hobbes' writings were influenced by Francis Bacon....
In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares these Christian theologians in terms of their similarities and differenc...
appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there ...
truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...
of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...
is pleasure derived from worshiping the Triune God. In Book II, Augustine discusses further the subject of signs. He defines wha...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...
but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...
tradition(Microsoft Corp. 2002). This synthesis he brought into line with the Bible and Roman Catholic doctrine. What the...