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II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...
out that the noun for spirit in the New Testament is pneuma which is neuter and, therefore, the spirit is correctly referred to as...
out that God stopped Abraham from committing this act, but the point is that Abraham was quite prepared to do it and this was the ...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...
the ethical and moral code by which humans live. Through the distortion of individualism, humanity has turned into a selfish, ego...
all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...
the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...
is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...
Comedy." His Italian allegory depicts the Christian hereafter that is subdivided into cantos of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purga...
2008, p. 394). This led to the consensus that "just one form of religion" had to be imposed on the native inhabitants of diverse l...
the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...
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...
salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...
the Dark Ages, 2005). Most of the learning that took place was dedicated to organizing knowledge about the past; there was no atte...
which was the time wherein most of the European population had experienced the Black Plague. As such its Gothic, but also softer o...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
the Unification Church (Sontag 11). Image of the Divine in this religious tradition The Unification Church, according to its De...
are so clearly defined that there is a lack of true illusionism that one would see in a painting that encompasses many overlapping...
author notes that such a find indicates that there was still a great deal of worship that took place for the Jews as it involved g...
poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...
reliance on Gods righteousness, he became determined to seek revenge upon the landowners family. However, before he could do so af...
does not temper "love with wrath" (Stumb, 19999). Julian is quoted as having said, that she could see "no sort of anger in God, ho...
literature. In contemplating Dantes Inferno and Boccaccios The Decameron, many things come to light. To some extent both works ex...
to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...
whetted it for a more impressive title. It was a seemingly innocuous meeting with a trio of witches that would sow the seeds of M...
with not only Odysseus but with the other characters as well" (Athena, the Goddess). For example, "At the opening of the book, Ath...
for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...
under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...
woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...