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Overview of Joseph Smith's Mormon Church

were buried in 1823, and John the Baptist, "who conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in Harmony, Pe...

Collingwood, Tolstoy and the Art of Frans Floris

that he considers its effect on the public to be morally bad (Jahn, 2000). Of course, in the typical connotation "bad art" is far ...

Development of Simon in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

out of the sea" (5,81). Simon is the only one who realizes that the Beast is not real, but is instead the savagery that lives ins...

Humanity and Divinity of the Christian Church

wanted only man as His own: God, Who has fatherly concern for everyone, has willed that all men should constitute one family and ...

Paul's Perspective on the Christ Event

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). In this letter, Paul...

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...

4 Aspects of Christian Apologetics

ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...

Controversial Mel Gibson Film The Passion of the Christ

time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...

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...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

The Gospel According to St. Matthew Film by Pasolini

Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...

Themes of Good and Evil in Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...

Christ Figure Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...

Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

do this, Da Vinci prepared the wall as if he were painting on panel (Rosand, 2001). The Last Supper pictures the moment when Jes...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

Character Analysis of Simon in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

Goddess and Motherhood Feminist Conceptual Comparisons

has changed into that of "practicalism" which she describes as a way of thinking that "arises from and is tested against practices...

Christ Like Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

sends through the voices of her characters. Stowe is a master at crafting conversations and employing just the right words for he...

Artistic Representation of the Human Body

ornate. It is believed that this particular sculpture was carved to stand before the burial site of a youth who was the member ...

Body of Christs and the Church

or more believers are gathered that they are also the body of Christ. This had to be very confusing, and it has led many to questi...

Misfit Character Symbolic Uses in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

The Changing Face of Jesus by Geza Vermes

"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...

Christ, Religion and the Works of Oscar Wilde

the beginning. And, we can also gather information regarding his relationship with Christ and/or religion. With such parents, and ...

Jesus Christ and Beowulf as Heroes

a bit. When it appears that his warriors are no match against this monster who has taken on a craven for human flesh, Herorot r...

Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and Interdependence

cycle of Easter. Forty days of Lent are honored prior to Easter; this is a reminder of the cost of the victory of the cross. Pente...

Sharon Kay Penman When Christ and His Saints Slept

which involves the story of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Penman, 2002; Penman, 1995). Maude was considered as t...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Three Artistic Masterpieces Compared

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...