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Sermon on the Mount Based Sermon

his name, this is clearly meant for his disciples as it will be them who will be in greater danger and not Jesus....

Nonviolent Teachings of Jesus

other outside sources, there is much presentation and analysis of Jesus attitudes on the issue of non-violence. There can ...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

Themes of Good and Evil in Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...

Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ According to the Gospels of John and Mark

is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...

Slaughterhouse Five Analysis

of nearly every day of his childhood" (38). The fact that the crucifix depicts a dead Jesus is significant because it represents ...

Character Analysis of Simon in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

Life and Teachings of Jesus

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...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

Jesus of Nazareth's Life and Ministry

thematic content. The whole emphasis of the narrative in Matthew is on scriptures being fulfilled via the life of Jesus (Wright, 1...

The Gospel According to St. Matthew Film by Pasolini

Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...

Confucius, Jesus, and the Golden Rule

pronouncements express a similar orientation, they are actually quite different because the positive form encompasses a "greater e...

Overview of Joseph Smith's Mormon Church

were buried in 1823, and John the Baptist, "who conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in Harmony, Pe...

Jesus of Nazareth As God

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

Jesus is God

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...

Fifth Book of Luke, Verses 1 to 11

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...

Communication Between the Disciples and Jesus Christ

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you" (Ma...

The Resurrection

This paper consists of five pages and discusses claims made by both theologians, John Dominic Crossan and Caroline Walker Bynum, ...

Money and the Views of Jesus

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...

Reconsideration of Incarnation

"Christians" would gather before dawn and recite a "hymn" to Christ, as if "to a god" (Shelley 22). These hymns, which can be date...

Analysis of 'Enoch Arden' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...

How Mrs. Turpin Chooses Between Two Choices from Jesus

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...

Questioning Who Jesus is and What He Represents

accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...

The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Mark Tully's Four Faces A Journey in Search of Jesus the Divine Reviewed

that he did - when the masses desperately needed a "human" religion to cling to - was something that helped boost Jesus to "divine...

Holy Spirit, Church, and Faith

Jesus Christ, trusting enough so that one obeys their commands.3 We demonstrate our faith in Jesus through Baptism. This is repe...

Teacher Role of Jesus

comprehend Jesus lessons, i.e. his parables, better when they consider them in the context of "drohrede," a literary genre centra...

The Changing Face of Jesus by Geza Vermes

"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...

Scholarly Issues and Controversy Regarding Marian Literature

the Mediterranean. Haarmann asserts that Marian devotion continues "the ancient goddess cults, and, thus, is a reflection of thei...