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Biography and Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

If God Did Not Exist, Would Morality Exist?

the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...

Examining Two Aspects of Islamic History

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...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

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...

Accepting God and Conflict Resolution

"probably influence a greater number of important decisions than do statistical projects, opinion polls, consultants reports or ev...

Herodotus and Ancient Leaders

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Evil in a World Created by God, Who is Good

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Gods: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

Larry Julian's God is My CEO

there is more to earning a paycheck but the individual needs to search themselves to find out what their priorities are and what p...

Comparing Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who afte...

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck and the Rock's Purpose

significant for him, and he can not put everything into the hands of nature in order to continually profit from his land. In the e...

Poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...

Defending Thomas Aquinas' Proof God Exists

basic argument that Aquinas presents for the existence of God. The following is just one way in which this could be addressed: A...

An Examination of Arianism Theology

but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...

Critically Analyzing M. Scott Peck's Positions

Then M. Scott Peck comes along and tells them that this is to be expected and so, this self-help book begins at a level that is ra...

A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Character of God Revealed in Joshua's Death and Abraham's Call

God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...

Literary Fiction and Self Discovery

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

'Image of God' and Humanity Implications

of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Overview of Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

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...

Evaluating the Sacrifice of Cain

In five pages this paper considers why God rejected Cain's sacrifice by using a variety of different concepts through which to exa...

5 Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas

be the first cause (Philosophy Online, n.d.). 3. Everything that exists at one time did not and may not at some time in the future...

Odin and Zeus Compared

feature and illustrate a very connectedness to the people they govern in their respective societies (Zeus and Odin, 2004). Their ...

Existence of God and Proof

Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, not in the realm...