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enrolls in the Bulgar army. After being beaten for wandering from camp, Candide flees to Holland and runs into an ugly beggar, who he is told to be Pangloss. He tells Candide that Cunégonde and her family have been murdered by the Bulgar army. A kind Anabaptist named Jacques to travel to Lisbon, but a storm destroys the ship, and Jacques drowns. In Candide, Voltaire sought to point out the fallacy of Gottfried William von Leibniz’s theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the…

François-Marie Arouet, who eventually became the famed writer known as Voltaire, was born into a middle-class, Parisian family on November 21, 1694. He was born into a France plagued by extreme poverty and under the rule of the religious King Louis XIV and the “austere and oppressive religiosity” of his court, an involvement which likely encouraged Voltaire’s subsequent critiques of organized government. From the age of nine until his seventeenth year, François-Marie received his formal…

Book Review Yarnell, Malcolm B. The Formation of Christian Doctrine. Nashville, Tenn: B & H Academic, 2007. 218 pp. $17.98 The Formation of Christian Doctrine , authored by Dr. Malcolm Yarnell, confronts the relatively uncharted challenge of forming a foundational free church theological method. Dr. Yarnell is director of the Center for Theological Research and a professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as director of the…

reader this is a Romantic writing. Secondly, Old Scratch, the Devil, reveals to readers his ways when he states that, "Since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists; I am the great patron…

has shown, no text in the bible clearly prohibits the action of going against monogamous relationships. “ no Biblical passages explicitly prohibit plural marriage. Indeed, leaders of breakaway Christian polygamous sects, like 16th-century German Anabaptists and 19th-century American Mormons, have always been eager to point out that several central Old Testament figures are polygynists. Abraham, for instance, had two wives simultaneously, and Solomon had 700 (plus 300 concubines)” (Price).…

After Bud went to the University of Tennessee, he became best friends with a young man Named Tomoku. Tomoku san was Japanese. After Bud was helping Tomoku with his English, Tomoku san began teaching Bud Japanese. Tomoku came from a Samurai family. His family name was Shimazu. His family had a long line of “Hidden Christians” that date back to the time Xavier and the Jesuits came to Japan. When Shogun Tokugawa forced conversion to Buddhism, he began to systematically kill Christians. The Shimazu…

The thesis of this paper is to discuss the obedience of Martin Luther despite the ridicule and distain of the public. His love and respect for God was unshaken during the reformation despite his feelings towards himself. God created us to serve and worship him. Many individuals have a problem with obedience and keeping Gods commandments, yet they claim to love him. Martin Luther loved God yet, he struggled with his own spirituality. Many people in the church have similar feelings. They want to…

Candide’s mentor and philosopher of the barons castle, Pangloss is Voltaire way of satirizing Leibniz’s idea that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. The main point in Leibniz philosophy is that God created the world so it had to be perfect, and if we perceive something bad happening its because we don’t fully understand God’s plan. Pangloss like most characters in the story is not believable, but rather he is a distorted and exaggerated representation of Leibniz designed to…

There were more radical people spreading as the Protestant Reformation spreads. A group called the Anabaptists was formed. King Henry VIII would become a Protestant by splitting with the Roman Catholic Church. He split with the Church mainly because he wanted an annulment with Catherine of Aragon. He wanted one because she couldn’t produce a male heir. The…

At a time when tension was high between America and England there were many who rose to defend their mother country, and James Chalmers was one of such people. In his political writings he explored America’s motivation for war, and the likelihood of America winning any such war with such meager manpower and lack of tactical reasoning. The following points are arranged in a comprehensible order, made so that the reader can confront the flaws in America’s plan to go to war with England with…