Flannery O'Connor's footprint: When do her characters gain reliability and how the attitude of the society plays a role?
O'Connor is considered one of the foremost short story writers in American literature. She was an anomaly among post-World War I Continue Reading...
Life and Death and Freud and Nietzsche
What are the similarities between Plato's concept of life after death and the early Christian concept of life after death? How did later Christians combine these concepts? What is the evidence that Jesus came b Continue Reading...
This did not seem to affect many that were truly committed however, to the Gnostic way of life.
Osborn, E.F. The Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria (Cambridge, England: University Press, 1957)
According to Osborn, the philosophy of Clement of Ale Continue Reading...
Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita" is one of the brightest pieces of Soviet literature on the hand with such masterpieces as One day of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Soljenitzin and Quite follows Don Continue Reading...
Millions of moviegoers who saw Mel Gibson's 2004 film Passion of the Christ were inundated with gory images of a man's bloody and beaten body, images that have been handed down through the centuries in Christian iconography and literature. The contro Continue Reading...
" Relgious leaders worried about loss of power and income ("Biography of Mohammed," 2005). This is an interesting parallel to Jesus' life, because Jesus also worried the religious leaders of his time for similar reasons (Wikipedia, 2000). Mohammed an Continue Reading...
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Judaism
Hebrew history, as told by the Hebrews, begins in Mesopotamia, in the cities of Ur in the south and Haran in the north. With Abraham, the story of the Hebrews begins, and it is clearly stated that Hebrew or Continue Reading...