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Tibetan Lamas and Divinity

Noumenon, which Stein refers to as "the Absolute," which must be attained to ensure salvation (Stein 166). Reason alone is not cap...

Mosaic Tradition and Divine Command and the Mosaic Tradition: Maimonides, Al-Ghazali and Augustine

the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...

Nature as Used in Dante's 'The Purgatorio' and 'The Inferno'

II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...

Holy Spirit and Personhood

out that the noun for spirit in the New Testament is pneuma which is neuter and, therefore, the spirit is correctly referred to as...

Ethical Egoism vs. Divine Command

out that God stopped Abraham from committing this act, but the point is that Abraham was quite prepared to do it and this was the ...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

Jesus and Buddha

salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...

Cathedrals

which was the time wherein most of the European population had experienced the Black Plague. As such its Gothic, but also softer o...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

Flannery O'Connor/Good Country People

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

Gospel Of Matthew

well as with the earthly King David, through Joseph, who acknowledges Jesus as his son (Brown, 1997). Joseph is in the line of Dav...

Unification Church

the Unification Church (Sontag 11). Image of the Divine in this religious tradition The Unification Church, according to its De...

Painted Rooms: Rome

are so clearly defined that there is a lack of true illusionism that one would see in a painting that encompasses many overlapping...

The Divine Name Found in Jerusalem

author notes that such a find indicates that there was still a great deal of worship that took place for the Jews as it involved g...

Hanbali Islam; The Religion of Saudi Arabia

the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...

“Relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

the Dark Ages, 2005). Most of the learning that took place was dedicated to organizing knowledge about the past; there was no atte...

Love Poetically Approached by John Donne

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Quest and the Works of Dante and Homer

journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of rede...

Relevant Ethical Theories

the ethical and moral code by which humans live. Through the distortion of individualism, humanity has turned into a selfish, ego...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Females, Mortal and Divine

all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...

God's Image and Genesis

under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Ovid and Plato on Justice

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

Classical Literature and the Portrayal of the 'Faustian Bargain'

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

Audience and Works by Dante Alighieri and Homer

In five pages this essay considers the audience and poet relationship as represented in 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante and 'The Odys...

Shintoism, Confucianism, Taoism, and the Divine

In five pages the divine as represented by these Asian religions are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Apostle Paul's Gospel

He is the only begotten Son of God. The majority of Christians believe that it was Jesus who was crucified, and buried and that h...

Divine Ruler and Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty

under the Ptolemaic Dynasty that Alexandria truly became the cultural and economic center of the ancient world. Both Egyptian and ...

Aristotle, Aquinas, and Plato on a Man's Best Life

In nine pages this paper discusses how man's best life can be best pursued, concepts of good and evil, and divine knowledge accord...