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Essays 61 - 90
He saw the changing world and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, e...
patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...
nature. De Gouges (2003) looks at the same natural world and challenges Enlightenment philosophers to give her an example in natur...
for ingesting peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. This was not recreational drug use, however, but rather, for sacramental reasons as p...
came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...
sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...
first founded by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard. While initially utilized to aid our understanding of Polynesian and African ...
Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...
Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...
called the Son of God" (Aherne). In John 1:49, Nathaniel, at their first meeting, referred to Jesus as the Son of God (Aherne). Wh...
S/he reveals that the professor opted not to talk about Judaism because there were Jews in the class, and in the students opinion,...
carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...
sword (Amos 7:11). Amos explained who he was: "I was neither a prophet nor a prophets son, but I was a shepherd . . . But the Lor...
well as atrocities instigated by one group of human beings against another or by individuals, one can often hear the comment that ...
In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...
God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...
by choice but are instead dictated by an omnipotent source, the inherent faith and ability to think creatively of ones beliefs is ...
The religious environment of Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries, for instance, can be seen as a key factor in terms of the b...
In six pages this essay contrasts and compares these early Meso American civilizations in terms of organizational, agricultural, r...
which occurred in the 1730s and 1740s. It was during those few decades in which we emerged as a religiously based and religiously ...
In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....
In five pages God's existence as it is considered within the context of Mortimer Adler's How to Think about God A Guide for the 20...
This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...
In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...
This paper consisting of ten pages describes how to teach adults Old Testament theology in a Sunday school environment and conside...
This paper consists of three pages and examines the Roman mythological gods and goddesses Mars, the war god, Cupid, the love god, ...
all, but rather only the world (Burnet ch2bii). Modern terminology used by those sharing Xenophanes views would be that there lik...
This 15 page paper discusses the way in which three religious writers, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Martin Buber and Teresa of Avila...