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Essays 181 - 210
his name, this is clearly meant for his disciples as it will be them who will be in greater danger and not Jesus....
other outside sources, there is much presentation and analysis of Jesus attitudes on the issue of non-violence. There can ...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...
is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...
of nearly every day of his childhood" (38). The fact that the crucifix depicts a dead Jesus is significant because it represents ...
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....
my Beloved, with you I am well pleased (Luke 4:32) (Willimon, 2001, p. 7). The scene reminds the reader of the account of the crea...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
thematic content. The whole emphasis of the narrative in Matthew is on scriptures being fulfilled via the life of Jesus (Wright, 1...
Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...
pronouncements express a similar orientation, they are actually quite different because the positive form encompasses a "greater e...
were buried in 1823, and John the Baptist, "who conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in Harmony, Pe...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
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...
we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets" (Luke 5: 5). Peter and his men...
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you" (Ma...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses claims made by both theologians, John Dominic Crossan and Caroline Walker Bynum, ...
the tables of the moneychangers in the temple. Besides the symbolism of this act, which was to purify the temple from a "den of th...
"Christians" would gather before dawn and recite a "hymn" to Christ, as if "to a god" (Shelley 22). These hymns, which can be date...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...
of it that easily. This is remedied by the fact that she is given a very difficult choice to make. Does she want to be black, or...
accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...
a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
that he did - when the masses desperately needed a "human" religion to cling to - was something that helped boost Jesus to "divine...
Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...
comprehend Jesus lessons, i.e. his parables, better when they consider them in the context of "drohrede," a literary genre centra...
"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...
the Mediterranean. Haarmann asserts that Marian devotion continues "the ancient goddess cults, and, thus, is a reflection of thei...