Essays 151 - 180
"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...
of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...
acceptable sacrifice capable of redeeming the sins of humanity. My personal beliefs (meaning the beliefs of the student, not thi...
over the last half century as illustrated the multiple elements that the Sinai Covenant shares with ancient Near East suzerainty t...
and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
Pratt (2001) explain that there is a distinction between "deadliest" and "most dangerous" in this context. Many snakes have deadl...
aids come across to the audience as decent people whom at least attempt to save Jesus from death (Cunningham, 2004). The gift of l...
perspective is not the error, in this authors view, but rather approaching the subject of naturalizing Jesus from a preconceived n...
regions, such as Palestine, Bethany and Cana. Some of what John records only an eyewitness could have reported, such as the fragra...
Masses, the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. Jews follow the Torah. This is the same as the Catholics Old Testament. Judaism a...
of Oisin is one of the most beautiful epics ever written. It is particularly rich in imagery, as Yates paints a word picture of 30...
which set the family in a state of poverty (Hooker, 1996). Mohammeds family was from the Hashim clan, which was one of the poorer ...
Are the criteria for the charismatic part founded on Scripture? If the criteria for the charismatic identity is not founded on Scr...
and people were referred to as sheep: "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless,...
are disciplined and they are able to see the Gestalt, the big picture.2 They know what they want to accomplish and even know how l...
as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...
un-natural cause is this new concept of God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises...
concepts of the South and North" (Strickland 50). In the case of Vermeer he was clearly, and strongly, a Dutch Baroque art...
all the rest of it. Nope, Jesus would be a man of the 21st century, an adult, and then they could see how he reacted to the world ...
strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...
healers could be executed (Healing Rays, 2007). In 1951, the Church made spiritual healing legal again but it is still tarnished w...
There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...
the christologies of the New Testament. Two of the most significant approaches are that of Paul and John. Maas (2004) points out...
time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
do this, Da Vinci prepared the wall as if he were painting on panel (Rosand, 2001). The Last Supper pictures the moment when Jes...