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Essays 421 - 450
In thirty pages this paper scripturally examines the Apocalypse and what this represents in terms of religious, socioeconomic, and...
of nearly every day of his childhood" (38). The fact that the crucifix depicts a dead Jesus is significant because it represents ...
"Christians" would gather before dawn and recite a "hymn" to Christ, as if "to a god" (Shelley 22). These hymns, which can be date...
the tables of the moneychangers in the temple. Besides the symbolism of this act, which was to purify the temple from a "den of th...
of it that easily. This is remedied by the fact that she is given a very difficult choice to make. Does she want to be black, or...
accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...
"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...
Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...
comprehend Jesus lessons, i.e. his parables, better when they consider them in the context of "drohrede," a literary genre centra...
the Mediterranean. Haarmann asserts that Marian devotion continues "the ancient goddess cults, and, thus, is a reflection of thei...
This paper examines the pertinent literature and ongoing controversy surrounding Mary, mother of Jesus, as well as her role in the...
a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....
his name, this is clearly meant for his disciples as it will be them who will be in greater danger and not Jesus....
other outside sources, there is much presentation and analysis of Jesus attitudes on the issue of non-violence. There can ...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...
societal reminders from kith and kin on what she should have done. In the end the audience is left with the same awful sense of de...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...
therefore, offers interpretation of them through various reflections, narratives, and discourses (John, 2003). The first sign is t...
thematic content. The whole emphasis of the narrative in Matthew is on scriptures being fulfilled via the life of Jesus (Wright, 1...
There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
of Jesus Christ, who is accepted by nearly everyone maybe not as the Son of God but as the founder of Christianity. According to ...
were buried in 1823, and John the Baptist, "who conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in Harmony, Pe...
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...
pronouncements express a similar orientation, they are actually quite different because the positive form encompasses a "greater e...