Essays Tagged: "eternal salvation"
The Future or Work
deliverance to a promised land of milk and honey. Later, Christian clerics held out the promise of eternal salvation in the heavenly kingdom. In the modern age, the idea of a future technological uto ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
The Contrast of French and Spanish Missionaries. This essay is a detailed research paper based on the topic above. It also includes a MLA Format Work Cited Page.
natives in the new world. By converting the natives the missionaries believed that they will reach eternal salvation. However, the missionaries' methods were split into two different prospective. The ... s were the same. Through these missions they believed to spread the Christian creed to attain their eternal salvation. They both had the idea that the Native Americans were in need of guidance in orde ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
How Aquinas and Ockham relate and differ in Faith-Reason and The Problem of universals.
could attain to truth unless he philosophizes in the light of faith. Aquinas held that our faith in eternal salvation shows that we have theological truths that exceed human reason. But he also claime ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Philosophy: Reason vs. Revelation, Asses the extent to which faith is more valid if based on reason rather than revelation.
ach to faith. 'Pascal's Wager' states that 'If we wager our lives that God exists, we stand to gain eternal salvation if we are right and loose little if we are wrong. If on the other hand we wager ou ... hand we wager our lives that there is no God, we stand to gain little if we are right but to loose eternal happiness if we are wrong'. This approach therefore involves a great deal of risk taking.Kar ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Puritan Era In America
s of Puritanism. Predestination is the belief that God has "elected" certain souls for eternal salvation. The Puritans believed to be that distinctive group and lived up to their repute b ... dam and Eve (before the forbidden fruit incident) that consisted of adhering to god in exchange for eternal reprieve. Puritans act as if the covenant of works is still an available means of salvation, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Crusades: God's Will or Man's?
te this turmoil, in the West the Catholic Church was a force in every area of life, and promised an eternal salvation into an existence much different than the difficult one currently being lived by b ... upon His people. In a desperate desire to atone for their sins, and to avoid the looming specter of eternal damnation, the clergy was often consulted to determine what might be a suitable penance. Not ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Goals In Hinduism And Buddhism
o obey the will of their ?one and only? God (Jehovah, Christ, Allah). In doing so, one could attain eternal salvation in heaven, free of the misery and pain that would plague our world. Following the ... ould plague our world. Following the laws and teachings also spares one?s soul from the torments of eternal damnation in hell.It has already been established that the religions of the west all share c ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Encyclical Letter Ecclesia De Eucharistia of His Holiness Pope John Paul II
nd not becoming many, but becoming one body. Christ want's us to consume his body so we can achieve eternal salvation, and we are all mutually joined to one another. "The joint and inseparable activit ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Exploration of Doctor Faustus' Motives Title: Doctor Faustus (Norton 2005 Edition) Translated by: Marlowe, Christopher
believes he is fated for damnation.Faustus is well aware that his time is limited on earth and that eternal life for mankind on earth is unattainable. In Faustus’ opening ruminations on philosoph ... works” (1.1.5), nor will he pursue medicine for only if it “Wouldst thou make men to live eternally / Or, being dead, raise them to life again, / Then this profession were to be esteemed ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature