YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Sworn on the Altar of God Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson by Edwin F Gaustad
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and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...
man who understood the "power of language" and "fought through language to influence history" (Demetrios, 2002, p. 7). Thomas Pa...
to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...
by the American readership who was eager to see a new direction forged in the colonies (Baym, Franklin, Gura, 630). Paine saw the...
as well (Lev, 2004). This evident blending of past and present very much expressed the Federal era values of retaining the rich cu...
still the most important piece of history that the U.S. embraces. Jefferson married in 1772 and owned both land and slaves ("Jef...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
In eleven pages this paper discusses how Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson perceived liberty and then discusses its evolution with...
In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...
In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...
In six pages this paper discusses how a private sector elite was created by American Founding Fathers George Washington, Thomas Je...
In fifteen pages this paper examines Jefferson's concepts as they relate to the church and state separation and democracy. Ten so...
There is no question that through Jeffersons influence, the United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and li...
This is particularly true for Jefferson verses Madison and Hobbes verses Locke. Despite their differences in philosophies, ...
into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...
derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...
major transportation route of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In the years preceding the Louisiana Purchase the Spanish ...
do not even attempt to explain it. You either believe or you dont. The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity evolved over many years and ...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...
In a paper containing 5 pages the usefulness of analogical language in theological inquiries is evaluated by incorporating the the...
In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...
In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
In three pages this paper discusses how God's existence was argued by Saint Thomas Aquinas. There is no bibliography included....
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...