YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Essays 841 - 870
the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...
He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
Chief among notable theologians to undertake study of this matter is Jurgen Moltmann, and his philosophy is often referred to as t...
so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...
tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...
human origins. He discusses the beliefs maintained by the three major Semitic religions and then discusses the role of Charles Dar...
In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...
America, they worked very hard to convert the Native American Indians, who obviously did not believe in Jesus Christ. The new set...
with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...
warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...
idea of a virtuous republican citizen similar to how one might consider a citizen today. To give power and authority to the indivi...
As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...
Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...
journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemakhos in Ithaka. The gods and goddesses also shape the poem structurally, and are ...
they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...
"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who afte...
boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...