Agape

In retrospect of the life of Leo Tolstoy, writers have analyzed his relations with the peasants of Russia, but few understand the deep spiritual connection he shared with them (Tolstoy 150). His religious reputation and his fame as a “social prophet” obtained the conflicted attention of those who followed the Russian Orthodox Church, especially the Russian government. Noted for his ingenuity and pardoned for his contributed efforts against terrorism at the time, Tolstoy continued to support his…

Exploring Buddhism in the Elements of Incarnational Ministry and the New Age Introduction The mere purpose of this assignment is to conduct an interview amongst a group of individuals, by creating five questions regarding the religion Buddhism and the New Age Movement era for Week 10 Project. In addition, I will be exploring my personal implications of the incarnational ministry combine with examining the opinions of the target group chosen. Introduction to Group Section: The…

undergraduate and graduate, I have gained an abundant amount of professional experience from two internships that have greatly impacted my career, over the course of the last two years. Comparatively, one of those experiences comes from my internship at Agape Hospice of York County, South Carolina. It was at this site, I was enabled to work with elderly adults diagnosed with terminal illnesses, who lived in the rural area. At that time, I was able to work with patients both in his or her home…

In “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body” (1999) feminist, philosopher, and author Susan Bordo discusses the changes in American advertisements. If we look back to almost any period of time before the late 1980’s, early 1990’s, we would never have seen the half-naked, bulging penis advertisements that all people are familiar with today. This change comes about in the topic of masculinity within the ads, which can be related to the society that Bordo is writing in, and to the society we currently…

Art reflects life: as society and its institutions change, art remains as a record of historical thoughts and practices. The way in which society views and treats those suffering with mental illness varies depending on the contemporary theory for its cause and its place among society. As man progressed from the superstitious dogma on mental illness surrounding the Medieval period, theories and cures towards mental illness increased in their analytic methods, though it certainly took centuries to…

Did God accept polygamy? Why then would He choose to bless the Old Testament leaders who seemed to have performed polygamy? It is easy to misinterpret that in God blessing them, it portrays that He promotes such a practice. But that argument is farthest from the truth. The leaders in question, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were blessed because our God is a gracious God. It is not what they had done that warranted God’s blessings. The majority of society today condemns the practice of polygamy.…

Martin Luther King, Jr. uses his powerful voice throughout his works to draw on the hearts of his audience by tapping into their moral compasses. King has an impressive understanding on the influence that the argumentative appeal, ethos, has on his readers. By using ethos, King is able to appeal to the character of every single one of his readers. This allows his works to seem more personal, therefore resulting in a bigger influence on his audience. In “The American Dream” and “Letter From…

divine gift, never as human achievement (Guthrie 250-251). And yet, divine love is not sentimental or merely emotional, it is a righteous love which blazes out against all that opposes God’s will. Equally the doctrine of atonement is ransom, agape love, also victory over Satan. Jesus Christ death on the Cross was the substitution appeased the Father for the transgressions of the world. And still, Guthrie wrote about biblical images that described the meaning of the death of…

The Vietnam War was the longest war in the history of the United States lasting nineteen and a half years. And it changed the way we thought about war. So the media coverage changed our view and that change in our view resulted in change to our society. It was a war where the media showed so much violence to American citizens that it changed our view of our own soldiers. And this also lead to changed laws and changed trusts. It was a war that generations will hear about forever because of the…

When Judee Norton expressed how she felt about reading and writing she stated, “When I read, I was somewhere else. I was no longer the oldest child in the most dysfunctional family in the universe. Writing was magic and I wanted to be a magician, to take people out of what was awful to another place” (Chevigny). Born in Arizona, in 1949, Norton was raised in a poor family with five children. As a child she took on the responsibilities of taking care of her siblings. Her autobiographies and…