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Essays 211 - 240

God & The Existence of Evil

choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...

Augustine/On Christian Teaching

is pleasure derived from worshiping the Triune God. In Book II, Augustine discusses further the subject of signs. He defines wha...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

Christian Educational Philosophy

and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...

Augustine, Aquinas and Luther/Role of Government

those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...

Church's Perspective on War

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

First American Citizen Saint

A little known fact is that the first American citizen saint was an immigrant and a woman. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was born ...

Creating a Saint

ages. In fact, both accounts contain detailed descriptions of the deaths, which are very similar. In addition, throughout both acc...

Polygamy Among the Latter Day Saints

Polygamy, the practice of having more than one spouse, has been practiced by numerous peoples over time. In contemporary times, h...

Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and The Accidental Tourist

ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Socrates

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

Law, Power, and Politics According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's On Loving God and Prayer

out, but that he would do his best to convey his thoughts on loving God in the hopes it can help others, focusing only on loving G...

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

Christian Conversion and the Commentary of Saint Paul

supper, a method based on the assumption they would be open to religious answers to their predicament" (Malony, 1998). At supper, ...

Synoptic Gospels and Saint Paul's Christology

to Father: "but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made ...

Saint Teresa of Avila By Herself

she suffered a paralyzing illness - her illnesses were depicted not as physical in nature but as her souls struggles against tempt...

The Mormon Church - Church Of Latter Day Saints

parish or congregation that has between 300 and 600 members, a stake encompasses between five and twelve wards and totals at least...

'Free' Women in Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

he looked at the possibility that a woman, finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was ...

Brian Moynahan's Rasputin The Saint Who Sinned

became Alexandras advisor because Rasputin has the ability to stop her sons fits. Her son was a hemophiliac and Rasputin was able ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas' Theology

the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...

Louise Erdrich's 'Saint Marie' and Character Analyses

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

Tommaso Campanella, Plato, Thomas More, Saint Benedict, and Point of Departure

Rule, was developed as a handbook for new monks entering his order. There are a number of chapters in the rule, most of which pert...

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

theater is a reflection of the way people think and behave. It is also a precursor to where the society is going because it invol...

Saint Patrick's Life, Humility, and Courage

blessing of the Pope, to convert pagans to Christianity. "Indeed, Patrick was quite successful at winning converts. Through active...

Mt. Saint Helens

St. Helens - Cascade Range Summary, 2002). It is one of several volcanoes in that area (Mt. St. Helens - Cascade Range Summary, 2...

Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol and Children of East Saint Louis, Illinois

suburbs, at a wealthy high school like New Trier, for example, Id be getting close to $60,000... for new, incoming teachers, this ...

Compare and Contrast: San Francisco and Saint Louis

of Asia within San Francisco. One finds themselves, a few short blocks from the business district of the city, smack dab in the mi...

Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler'

This novel is compared with Tyler's Ladder of Tears and also specifically analyzed in terms of theme, plot, and characters in this...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of Galileo, Descartes, and St. Augustine on Science and Religion

In five pages this report contrasts and compares these scholars views on science and religion. Three sources are cited in the bib...