Theology Essay Examples Page 6

Many people in history have made a very big impact on their culture, times, and/or religion. One that stands out is John Calvin. He had a really huge influence during his time—the early-to-middle sixteenth century. Calvin devoted almost his whole life to promoting Protestantism, and he made a big difference that is still seen today…

Miracles are simply examples of the power of the mind to command the body The philosopher David Hume argues that the witnesses to the miracles were frequently uneducated people of doubtful reputation. He believes that it is part of human nature to exaggerate. None of the certified miracles at Lourdes had any limbs growing back…

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…

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…

Aristotle’s interest in explaining why things exist as they do led to his theory of Four Causes. He rejected Plato’s theory of Forms and was more intrigued by the particular form in which an object took, as opposed to the ‘ideal, perfect’ form. The four causes are: the material cause, the formal cause, the efficient…