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Apostle Paul's Gospel

He is the only begotten Son of God. The majority of Christians believe that it was Jesus who was crucified, and buried and that h...

Divine Ruler and Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty

under the Ptolemaic Dynasty that Alexandria truly became the cultural and economic center of the ancient world. Both Egyptian and ...

Nonliterate Peoples and Ancient City State Religions

In five pages this paper examines the ancient religions in terms of the literate and nonliterate perceptions of the Divine and Ult...

Aristotle, Aquinas, and Plato on a Man's Best Life

In nine pages this paper discusses how man's best life can be best pursued, concepts of good and evil, and divine knowledge accord...

Shintoism, Confucianism, Taoism, and the Divine

In five pages the divine as represented by these Asian religions are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Unbeliever's Understanding of Divine Reality

In six pages divine reality is examined in order to provide the unbeliever with understanding with the contention that following o...

Ovid and Plato on Justice

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

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...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

Epic of Gilgamesh and its Gendered Text

In 5 pages this epic is discussed in terms of the gender roles that the divine and mortal characters embody and the lack of female...

Moral Theories

In eight pages this paper assesses moral relativism, Divine Command, and Kantian theories in this evaluation of the strengths and ...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

History of Literature and Changing Character Gender Roles

around the world. This is evidenced in the Pelasgian Creation. In the Pelasgian myth, Eurynome was the Goddess of All Things,...

Divine Vies of Plato

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

Verses Nineteen through Twenty Four of the Thirty Seventh Psalm

as they inevitably have food while others starve. However, the psalmist quickly reassures the reader that this is only an illusion...

Morality's Divine Command Theory

this is the case, then the moral act was morally good independently of Gods will, which is inconsistent with DCT (Holt, 2003). DCT...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Seventeenth Century Influence on the Eighteenth Century

speeches in his position of Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in which he did a great deal to enhance both the cultural ...

Tibetan Lamas and Divinity

Noumenon, which Stein refers to as "the Absolute," which must be attained to ensure salvation (Stein 166). Reason alone is not cap...

Mosaic Tradition and Divine Command and the Mosaic Tradition: Maimonides, Al-Ghazali and Augustine

the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...

Ethical Egoism vs. Divine Command

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 ...

Nature as Used in Dante's 'The Purgatorio' and 'The Inferno'

II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...

Holy Spirit and Personhood

out that the noun for spirit in the New Testament is pneuma which is neuter and, therefore, the spirit is correctly referred to as...

Flannery O'Connor/Good Country People

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

Gospel Of Matthew

well as with the earthly King David, through Joseph, who acknowledges Jesus as his son (Brown, 1997). Joseph is in the line of Dav...

Virgil's 'Aeneid,' Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Divine Intervention

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

Marcus Garvey and Father Divine

In five pages Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and their significant successes are celebrated. Two sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Exodus, 'The Aeneid,' and 'The Odyssey'

In five pages this paper examines the connection between divine will and cultures in a comparative analysis of these ancient works...