Essays Tagged: "Divinity"

Who is God

d [altar] objects belonging to specific philosophic constellations which help to define the face of divinity."Through the oppression of the salve trade, the Yoruba Africans worked to keep there own co ...

(3 pages) 93 0 3.2 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Good God!

.Objection number one is that, can one actually prove the "existence" ofGod? How can one experience divinity, without experiencing death first? Nomen on this earth can! Not the Pope, Saint Anselm, nor ...

(3 pages) 76 0 2.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Hume

upernatural event regarded as to define action, one of the acts worked by Christ which revealed his divinity an extremely remarkable achievement or event, an unexpected piece of luck. Therefore, a mir ...

(8 pages) 203 0 5.0 Sep/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Arianism. A heresy which arose in the fourth century, and denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

ArianismA heresy which arose in the fourth century, and denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ.DOCTRINEFirst among the doctrinal disputes which troubled Christians after ...

(15 pages) 148 0 4.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Confucius, Philosophy of Religion. About cinfusianism and christianity

ings are centered around the idea of Jen or the "virtue of humanity (Ching 68)." To accomplish this divinity, five relationships must be honored: ruler and minister, father and son, husband and wife, ...

(4 pages) 184 0 3.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

David Hume's critique of the belief in Miracles

supernatural eventregarded as to define action, one of the acts worked by Christwhich revealed his divinity an extremely remarkableachievement or event, an unexpected piece of luck. Therefore,a mirac ...

(7 pages) 164 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The Fate of The Blind. Interprets blindness in King Lear (by Shakepseare) and Oedipus

'There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.' These words from Hamlet are echoed, even ...

(8 pages) 102 0 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine

"In my youth I also read tragedies,epic poems, romances, and divinity.Now I read Common Sense."Robert BageA Brief History Of Thomas PaineThomas Paine was born To ...

(3 pages) 216 1 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Comparing/contrasting 2 pieces of art from different periods

(1627, Spanish; gallery room 215). These two paintings focus on Jesus Christ, his humanity and his divinity. I chose them because they represent Jesus' fragile humanity through his infancy and death. ... different from the other religious art I had seen because it stresses humanity without sacrificing divinity.Weyden illustrates the beauty of humanity with a poignant portrait of The Virgin Mary breas ...

(5 pages) 178 1 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

The Wicca Religion

in fact the majority of practitioners are women.After the One power, which is the highest level of divinity in Wicca, the Goddess and God follow, on a subsequent, subordinate level. The Goddess and G ...

(4 pages) 169 3 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Title:"Jesus Christ Is More Than A Word" Holistic Essay, with much criticism from instructors

s traumatized as a child due to the fact that he was separated from God, unable to communicate with Divinity until after his baptism (reads my latest book). Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were lovers ...

(3 pages) 139 3 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Was Origen's understanding of the Trinity heretical? Explain.

Spirit are his means for interaction with the earth. However, the "necessary" limitations upon the divinity of the Son and the Holy Spirit in order to interact with the earth and carry out God's grac ...

(5 pages) 52 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Description of the four Hindu paths to "Brahman"/God and which one appeals to me the most.

ct yoga that focuses on the type's strong point. The point of the yogas is to reveal the underlying divinity in humans. These are the different paths to God.Jnana yoga is the path to God through knowl ...

(2 pages) 105 0 2.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Hinduism

Usage of Love in "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison.

of love in her novel.As a child Guitar develops a violent dislike for sugary foods when he is given divinity by a white woman after his father's death in a sawmill accident. This early experience lead ...

(3 pages) 104 0 3.4 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Narrative Technique in "The Secret Agent".

times, from character to character throughout the novel. This is done to give the reader a certain divinity; a Godly like state making one able to see all. Once the reader is given insight into the n ... ive whilst retaining the ironic detachment Conrad wanted. The truly amazing thing about the gift of divinity is that it allows one to distinctly notice contrast. The contrasts lie in the ironic differ ...

(3 pages) 62 0 0.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Commentary on Yeats' poem, "Leda and the Swan".

Swan", W.B Yeats retells the Greek myth of Leda's rape by Zeus, as he uses diction to emphasize the divinity of Zeus, and the helplessness of Leda. Most of the words used to identify Leda describe her ...

(2 pages) 67 1 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Study guides for American Pageant 12e by Bailey.

es that relied on reason rather than religion and rejected the concept of original sin and Christ's divinity. deists believed in a Supreme being who had created the universe and endowed humans with a ...

(5 pages) 76 1 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Hinduism - basic knowledge of Hinduism.

Yet, they share a vast heritage of culture and belief: karma, dharma, reincarnation, all-pervasive Divinity, temple worship, sacraments, manifold Deities, the many yogas, the guru-nishya tradition an ... ter-marry or inter-dine (Spodek).There are nine basic beliefs held by Hindus. Hindus believe in the divinity of the Vedas, the world's most ancient scripture, and honor the Agamas as equally revered. ...

(6 pages) 313 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Hinduism

In "The Lamb" and "the Tiger" William Blake's speakers present a distinct duality of the human understanding of god

The Dichotomous Duality of DivinityHow does one understand the concept of god? Classic Christian beliefs dictate to their worsh ... By grounding the observance of god in human terms the speaker creates two disparate perspectives of divinity: loving and mysterious, or personal and distant.In "The Lamb," the speaker presents the nat ...

(2 pages) 80 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

This article describes the triumphs that former Roman emperor Marcus Aurelus encountered; throughout his reign in power.

theist Stoic beliefs with a passionate religious conviction.He shared the basic Stoic belief in the divinity of the cosmos as an intelligent being with a soul, and stressed (perhaps too fatalistically ...

(1 pages) 37 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History