Apocalypticism

of the court bureaucracy” (4). The Kamakura government during Nichiren’s time was headed by Hōjō regent, Tokiyori, and as Joseph Dewey (2016) writes, the Kamakura period was violent, turbulent, and “characterized by a broad sense of pessimism, apocalypticism, foreboding, and anxiety” (N.pg). It does not require a far reach into Nichiren’s writings to discover insight as to the shaky state of Japan during the priest’s time. It is inarguable that Nichiren stands out as one of the most…

(a) ECO-CRITICISM Eco-criticism originated in a bio-social context of unrestrained capitalism, excessive exploitation of nature and worrying shapes of environmental hazards. It sees how a ‘literary text’ contributes into the ‘construction’ of nature and the politics of development (Nayar, 241). Eco-criticism focuses on the link between literature and nature. Raymond Williams in his ‘The Country and the City’(1973) elegantly argued how English Literature contributed to specific notions of nature…

Blight’s study is particularly of note because, more than showing the persistent religious preoccupations of Douglass, he theologically identified internal tensions to Douglass’s thought, namely, the tension between a providentialist and an apocalyptic view of history. The former providentialist position emerges in writings such as “The Suffrage Question,” where Douglass, reflecting in 1856 on a the failure of the New York legislature to overturn the “property clause” for voting rights, writes…

The Good news of Matthew is an onlooker story composed for a group of people of devotees, under awesome pressure, and abuse. Matthew builds up a philosophical plot joining family history, addresses, anecdotes, bury and intratextual references, basic vocabulary, and satisfaction citations, with a strain that works as we are welcomed into the story. The torturous killing and revival convey us to a Christological peak that emblematically indicates past its decision God's Kingdom, bringing expiation…

In the high middle ages, Europeans celebrated a number of victories. The increased lay religiousness created a widespread sense of scholasticism. New roads and bridges were being built in Europe to make trade easier. The expansion of the European economy in the 13th and 14th centuries lead to an increased prosperity--- shifting interest and focus on what was becoming a new middle, merchant class. This emphasis on a newly-powerful group of people, though, was a catch-22. The medieval papacy,…

Many writers of the period were aware of a pervasive intellectual and imaginative climate, which some called ‘the spirit of the age’. This spirit was linked to both the politics of the French Revolution and religious apocalypticism” (“The Romantic Period: Topics.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature). The goal of the poems was to create an emotional connection with the reader to the work. In the seventh stanza of part one the poem reads: “The Sun came up upon the…

In order to answer this question, a background setting of the period of time in which Baudelaire lived must be acknowledged. Baudelaire critiqued art in the mid 19th century where two opposed ideological worlds and value systems of art and society were formed: The Bohemia and the Bourgeois. These two groups in society were present in a period known as modernity. Calinescu describes these two value systems in his book called ‘The five faces of modernity’. The Bourgeois view of modernity was…

The question concerning this appearance lies in textual criticism. If manuscripts A, B, and C, represent the earlier reading, then a later author may have written covenant into the text. If Gp and Ethiopian Enoch represent the earlier text, then later authors may have written covenant out of the text. More likely, however, these distinctions identify differing interpretations, as no reason exists to assume a normative text and its variations. Jubilees and Testament of Moses Jubilees, as an…

Interpretation in Cultural Context As the authenticity of the prayer has been established and a likely original version produced, we transition to the reception of the Lord’s Prayer as taught by the Great Teacher to his audience in the first century. Tertullian believes the Lord’s Prayer to be a summary of Jesus’ faith and moral teachings, or an “abridgement of the entire Gospel” (Luz 325). The new covenant brings about the need for a new form of prayer, one in which God’s created beings can…

From “The Politics of Transhumanism and the Techno-Millennial Imagination, 1626-2030” and “The Human Condition Hurts: We’d Be Fools Not to Better It” by James Hughes, the readers are able to gain an educational and factual perspective on a very theoretical topic. The difference in the implementation of the “hook”, the jargon used, and the context in time the supporting research is based on allows for each reader to gain the knowledge required to look at human bio-technology in a more accepting…