Essays on Religion Page 101

            How do you feel when you see flowers growing on the roadside?  To the author, William Wordsworth, in his immortal lyric poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, flowers and all of nature’s richness is a spiritual reality, bearing witness to the beauty and goodness of God.  The poem expresses the writer’s personal feelings…

Describe the positions of adult females typical to Confucianism. Taoism and Shinto. In Confucianism. the adult females need to follow the “three subordinations” : be low-level to her male parent before matrimony. to her hubby after matrimony. and to her boy after her hubby died. so Confucians would believe she is a virtuous adult female….

Abstract In the Scriptures, there are many instances where a specific number is given throughout the Old and New Testament. For example, there were 12 sons of Jacob, from where the 12 tribes of ancient Israel took their names. In the New Testament, 12 apostles were chosen to carry out the work of Jesus Christ…

The choice The Raptures of St. Avila that appears here concerns St. Teresa’s visions of Jesus and angels. She describes her visions really carefully in this chapter, stating that at first she was able to see merely the custodies of Jesus, than subsequently his face, and finally his organic structure. She goes into great item…

H. J. McCloskey’s work “On Being an Atheist” seeks to prove that atheism is a more rational and comforting belief than Christianity. In his analysis, McCloskey critically evaluates three well-known theistic arguments: the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, and the argument from design. He focuses on the existence of evil in a world supposedly created…

Francois Petit[1] observes that  clarifying the underlying conception of God is often the first step in getting to the root of the problem of evil. This is because evil in its own right cannot be regarded as a substance or entity, but rather, is the absence of a quality which a thing ought to posses…

In John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany, various symbols play a prominent role. Arm-less figures, water, and angels are a few of the more well-known symbols, but there are also subtle symbols throughout the novel. One of the most significant subtle symbols is prayer, which is an idea in itself. However, A Prayer for…

The Synoptic Problem is the term used by New Testament scholars to describe the “study of the similarities and differences between” the three Synoptic Gospels “in an attempt to explain their literary relationships” (Goodacre 16). Of the four gospels contained in the New Testament, three, namely Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as the Synoptics….

According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, Religion is commonly understood as the service and worship of God or the supernatural, commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance, a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices, a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held with ardor and faith. Additionally, this source emphasizes…

Christianity is a religion that has its systems and beliefs founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ who lived and taught his doctrines in the country of Palestine when the Roman Empire ruled most of Europe under Emperor Tiberius. The birth of Jesus Christ is estimated to have occurred between 4 BC and 6 AD…