Beatitudes Essay

On October 31st various Reformed churches will celebrate Reformation Day. Chile and Slovenia, who both have a Catholic majority, has declared it a nation holiday. Some churches move Reformation Day to the Sunday before and call it Reformation Sunday. Reformation Day celebrates the day Martin Luther wrote to the Bishop of Mainz protesting the sale of indulgences. Luther’s letter cascaded into a pivotal event of the Reformation, the Diet of Worms (Jan 28 – May 25, 1521). Now in those days a Diet…

Schumann’s Involvement in Resurrecting J.S. Bach As editor and writer for his own music journal, Neue Zeitscrift für Musik, Robert Schumann made it his personal mission to write about worthy composers and lift them up as examples to the music community. He was tired of the “Philistines” of the current music establishment, such as Wagner and Meyerbeer, who he felt were commercial and pretentious. He brought Brahms and Chopin to Germany’s notice, because he felt that their music was “honest craft…

‘Three Compositions of Meekness Towards Man’ Thomas Boston suggested three elements of the meekness towards man in his famous book ‘The Beatitudes’. He claimed that meekness has the ‘bearing of injuries’, ‘forgiving of injuries’, and ‘recompensing good for evil’. Boston presented ‘bearing of injuries’ with four oppositions of the meekness, which are ‘hastiness of spirit’, ‘malice’, ‘revenge’, and ‘evil-speaking’. In the next level (‘forgiving of injuries), he mentioned that “A meek spirit is a…

The Word of God, as referred by St. John, is Jesus. The Word of God became flesh to reconcile us to God, to manifest God’s love, to offer a model of holiness, to allow us to share in divine life, and to defeat the devil. He did everything out of his love. His creation was perfect, but it was the temptation of Satan that brought sin to the world. The consequence of sin required a special sacrifice that would save human beings. God becoming man to offer his father the sacrifice is that special…

The concept of moderation and its importance throughout Aristotle 's Nicomachean Ethics and Thomas Aquinas’ The Virtues, is heavily contrasted with the intensity displayed within Baudelaire 's poem Get Drunk, and the documentary Amy. Within these four works, it is clear that not only do the concepts of intensity and moderation contradict, but the varying methods and effects of the two within each group contradict as well. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics the idea of moderation is portrayed…

and paint the blood over their door to save them from the angel of death. This prefigures the perfect Jesus, the lamb of God, saving us from sin by his blood shed on the cross. The 10 Commandments, prefigure the new law that was given a form of beatitudes. Entering into the promised land prefigures us entering heaven because Jesus is our…

As a result of the increasing disorder in the universe, time has directionality, or the appearance of directionality fabricated by the human mind. Against all odds, complex human beings evolved in the face of expanding entropy, but with the inception of self-awareness humans were bound to think about life’s antithesis—the unavoidable, looming presence of death. For the duration of human life, one’s corporeal self is trapped in the present, simply existing, while one’s mind is able to wonder…

What should an Australian ‘face of mercy’ look like to a refugee arriving in our Country? The face of mercy to a refugee arriving in our country does not only have one, but multiple faces, therefore enabling us Australians to portray mercy in numerous and simple ways. Mercy is the action of showing kindness towards everyone and anyone without limitations, these actions can include showing compassion, forgiveness, love and so forth. To us Catholics, Jesus is the “face of mercy” as quoted from…

Amanda M. Baxter Professor Buchanan English 1020 October 25, 2014 How Chopin uses the Character Louise Mallard to Portray the Perplexity of her own Life In “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin demonstrates the devastating effects of the oppression of women through the heart stopping story of the Louise Mallard. Louise Mallard has a seemingly pleasant life with her husband, Brently. The setting of the home along with Brently Mallards’ “gripsack” suggest they are not in poverty (Chopin 308). The…

Inferno: the punishment in Hell suits the sinner, and therefore he does not deserve to be sympathized with. Thomas E. Peterson, in an essay, describes Dante’s epic poem as “a journey intended to demonstrate the consequences of sin and the promise of beatitude”, along with those consequences being deserved and fitting (Peterson). This idea of being unsympathetic towards sinners is (one of many reasons) why Dante wrote this…