SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Theological Positions of John Calvin and Martin Luther

Essays 541 - 570

1 Thessalonians and an Exegesis of Chapter 2, Lines 1 through 12

blamelessly we behaved toward you believers; (11) just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of...

Democracy and Human Nature

dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depe...

Health Care Delivery and Various Moral, Philosophical, and Ethical Issues

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

Life and Teachings of Jesus

my Beloved, with you I am well pleased (Luke 4:32) (Willimon, 2001, p. 7). The scene reminds the reader of the account of the crea...

'Evil' Problem and Confessions of Saint Augustine

In five pages this paper examines how evil is conceptualized by St. Augustine of Hippo in this early theological text. Three sour...

Religious Concepts of Baruch Spinoza

enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone is enjoying it, to the exclusion of others. He who thinks himself more ...

John's Gospel 10, Verses 22 to 40

a point (Born, 1988). For instance, in verse 24, the Jews ask Jesus "how long" He will keep them "in suspense" - "If you are the C...

US' Diminishing Democracy

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

Social Construction, Social Shaping, and Technological Determinism

the process of change, and that technology is an instrumental component in the transformation of organizational and social structu...

Conventional Theology and The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...

Christian Worship Music and Theology

of worship. Canticles are a part of todays liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church" and "The first written chants were associated wit...

Biblical Scripture's Doctrine of Inerrancy

unique personalities and writing styles (Thiessen, 1979). Theissen explains that the Holy Spirit supervised these writers to insur...

The Influence of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo

still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...

James H. Cone: Theologian

black Church alongside the soul-crushing reality of white racism."2 Through this childhood of learning he was able to learn how to...

Different Interpretations of Settlers in the New World

A great deal of insight about equality emerges, and later, this would be the basis for the creation of the United States of Americ...

Justice and Fairness According to John Rawls and John Noonan and Mary Anne Warren on Being Human

that Rawls equates justice with equality. Justice is, in a manner of speaking, treating others as an individual would wish to be ...

Signs in John’s Gospel

home and found that this was true. This sign not only showed that Jesus possessed power over life and death, but also the role of ...

Analysis: “The Coming Darkness”

white supremacist."4 De Hoyos charges that Ankerberg uses misdirection, subterfuge and innuendo to make his points, which are larg...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

Dogma, Reflection on a Film

Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...

Ethical And Theological Issues: Compare/Contrast

cannot raise a reaction from the person at whom he is shooting spitballs will soon give up in defeat since the entire gratificatio...

Origen/Early Christian Exegete

beings. Modern scholars agree with Origen that portions of Matthews Gospel were added to the original at a later date. Origens ca...

John 7:37-39 - Rivers Of Flowing Water

this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...

Theological Issues

called the Son of God" (Aherne). In John 1:49, Nathaniel, at their first meeting, referred to Jesus as the Son of God (Aherne). Wh...

Evangelium vitae/Nos. 78-105

to freedom and responsibility" (EV 83). In this regard, he stresses the pivotal position of the Sacraments, as a means by which hu...

Exegesis of 2 Corinthians 3:12-18

as this passage shows. Examination of the passage 3:12 : Therefore, since we have such hope, we are very bold (NIV). Because of ...

Racism in The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt

however, they - themselves - were catalysts for racism by virtue of how they so eagerly left behind a big part of their heritage i...

Conspiracy and Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

distinctive patterns, which include "a penchant for the obscure and improbable... accepting arguments pointing toward a conspiracy...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Mujerista Theological Perspective

collection of religiously indoctrinated causes speaks to how entrenched gender equality is in relation to the meaning of Marys ima...