YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Essays 571 - 600
carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...
son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...
been utilized in the protection of public interest, especially when issues of safety can be impacted by widespread public response...
As would be expected there has been a great deal of outcry about this particular ruling. For example, one senator stated, "This is...
We can look at this and begin to understand that China was going through a great and difficult period in relationship to many real...
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...
main gods of the Sumerians included the god of water (Enki); the god of earth (Ki); the god of air (Enlil) and the god of heaven (...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
when he has found what he sought, he wanders before every mans door with his song and with his oration, that all may admire the he...
the conflict in terms of an insult to his personal honor. Homer writes that Achilles responded by telling Agamemnon, "Ah me, cloth...
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...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...
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...
Chief among notable theologians to undertake study of this matter is Jurgen Moltmann, and his philosophy is often referred to as t...
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...
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)...
In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...