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God's Image and Genesis

under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...

God's Doctrine as Interpreted by Gordon Kaufman, Pamela Young, and Sallie McFague

evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...

Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'God's Grandeur'

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

Christ's and God's Images

reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...

Dionysus and the Nature of This Greek God's Character

a variety of stories in a variety of ways. First, Dionysus is a contradictory god. He does things that might surprise people bec...

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...

Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas on Religion and Philosophy

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

Positivist Law and Natural Law

two very separate subjects. However, there are a number of laws where there are no apparent sanctions non-compliance, therefore s...

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...

Different Thoughts About Capitalism

property, and divine or eternal laws (Gasser, 2007). They did not necessarily agree but they both offered views on what we can ref...

Themes in the Philosophy of Aquinas

as it moves form lower life forms towards more perfect higher forms that are capable of varying degrees of intelligence and ration...

An Exploration of Natural Law

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at natural law. Aquinas' basic formulations are examined, and criticisms are introduce...

Summa Theologica Guide for the Perplexed

he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...

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. ...

The 'Just War' According to Thomas Aquinas

the problem-solving work "forward by rendering intelligible the problems various dimensions" (Miller, 2002, p. 173). The first se...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

The First Cause and First Mover Arguments of Thomas Aquinas

principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...

Three Medieval Theologians on Knowledge and Love

if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...

Aristotle and Aquinas on Beauty

He created man and should do whatever it takes to support his development and sustenance. To that end, he saw it necessary to main...

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...

Genesis/An Overview

the narratives in the books to come (Friedman 295). In Genesis, everything builds on everything else. Therefore, in order to under...

Scientific Knowledge Foundations

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

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...

Politics and Imaginary Dialogues

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

Thomas Aquinas' Work

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...