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Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

God's Existence and Logic

believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...

Proof Of God's Existence

broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Philosophers on God's Existence

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

The Ontological Argument of St. Anselm of Canterbury

In five pages the life and theological hypothesis that reflects the views and the work of Canterbury's St. Anselm are reviewed. F...

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene

theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...

Predestination and Free Will According to St. Augustine

That system is based on three principals: 1. God is absolute Master, by His grace, of all the determinations of the will; 2. man ...

Thomas Frank's One Market Under God

dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...

McCloskey's "On Being An Atheist"

either way, according to McCloskey, is that Gods omnipotence is limiting to his being in light of how He cannot be at once be both...

Freedom Determinism More

Different theological philosophies attribute free will and freedom to different other theories. This paper explores libertarian fr...

Crucifixion of St. Peter, Ecstasy of St. Teresa

This essay discusses the baroque era and how Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter and Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa reflect th...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

Dark Night of the Soul and Interior Castles

imperfections, habitual natural and spiritual, and which is called by contemplatives infused contemplation, or mystical theology" ...

The Architectural Features of Notre Dame and St. Etienne

generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...

St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa (1515-1582) was born in Avila as Teresa de Ahumada, the daughter of a prosperous family that likely would be middle cla...

St. Francis of Assisi

he should live a contemplative life of prayer or an active life of spreading the gospel to the world (Hammond 14). This led Franci...

Medieval Europe's Saints

times. By a rescript of Septimus Severus (193-211) all imperial subjects were forbidden under severe penalties to become Christian...

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...

Francesca and El Greco

He is a fairly old man, and is the figure of "St. Jerome (c. 342-420), one of the four great Doctors of the Western Church, is ven...

Thomas Aquinas

Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...

Women's Role and the Concept of Marriage

In eight pages this paper examines writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and others in a consideration of the marriage concept an...

God's Perfect Judgment

did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...

Knowledge of God

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...

St. Eustatius and St. Martin Dutch Settlements

In five pages this paper examines two early Dutch settlements in the Caribbean. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Adams's Essay 'Should God Create Good?'

In five pages the arguments presented in this essay in terms of God's and man's obligations to potential life are compared to soci...

Concept of Rights

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the concept of rights in a consideration of ideals and the interpretations of T...

Thomas Aquinas' Global Perspectives on the Hierarchy Concept

In 5 pages this paper examines social order within the context of the hierarchical cosmology concept of Thomas Aquinas. Four sour...