According to the author, the passage indicates that the authors of the Bible wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, but that they did not receive exact dictation from God. They were inspired to write as they wished, but the outcome was stil Continue Reading...
Niebuhr Material
Niebuhr, H. Richard. Christ and Culture. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1951.
The author of Christ and Culture Richard Niebuhr is today largely remembered as one-half a famous pair of siblings. Reinhold was the more famous of the tw Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. Examining Biblical Inerrancy in Light of Historical and Archaeological Evidence:
This essay could explore how physical evidence from historical and archaeological studies either supports or challenges Continue Reading...
Daredevil and OrestesThe character of Orestes in Aeschylus\\\'s Eumenides can be seen as having some influence on the Marvel superhero Daredevil if the two are compared in a thematic way. Both have narrative arcs that parallel one another as they inc Continue Reading...
God
Describe an experience of faith in your own life where you were aware of an encounter with God. How does this encounter illustrate some of the concepts which Haight and Barth bring out in their chapters on faith?
Encountering God, if one is lu Continue Reading...
Suffering
Tim Murphy
Theology
MA2000D
The existence of human suffering poses a unique theological problem. If God is omniscient, omnipotent, and all-loving, then why does suffering exist? Indeed, this difficulty is confronted in scripture itself: Continue Reading...
Jewish Understandings of Human Nature: The Good and Evil Inclinations
With several millennia of history and experiences behind them, it is reasonable to posit that many people of the Jewish faith have sought to better understand human nature and its Continue Reading...
Similarly the Ayurvedic tradition of India emphasized rest and relaxation and nutritional well-being, along with various mentally stimulating exercises. Ayurvedic resorts are still popular in the East. Buddhism is also viewed as an avenue out of de Continue Reading...
Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and Benjamin Franklin's "Advice to a Young Tradesman."
The writings of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin represent two opposite extremes of Colonial thought. Edwards' "Sinners in the Han Continue Reading...
John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, "had charged the English settlers in New England with a special and unique Providential mission," (Scott, n.d., p. 1). The belief that Anglo-Saxon settlers were blessed by God and entitled to p Continue Reading...