Damnation

Augustine on the problem of suicide is a response to Catholics/Christians who were possible victims of rape who may be thinking of ending their own life in order to preserve their ‘honor’. Whereas some may argue (The Pegans) the act of suicide is justifiable because martyrdom is no difference then suicide, for the martyr foresees their coming death. That in which, Augustine goes out to explain that suicide differs greatly, because suicide victims intend their own death which they bring upon…

There aren’t two people who are alike, even twins who are born and raised in the same environment, can have a different reaction when reacting to a similar situation. Everyone in life goes through certain events in life where each one reacts differently and no one can say “I would have reacted the same way”. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, where several sons avenged their fathers’ murder, but their madness and horrible decisions takes numbers of death on everyone. There is a lot of…

Martin Luther (1483-1546) was an known as an Augustinian monk, associated with L.F.A or Lay Faith Affiliated with Order. Augustinian, or Austin, friars are a mendicant order.According to Britannica, A mendicant order includes “Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians (Augustinian Hermits), Carmelites, Trinitarians, Mercedarians, Servites, Minims, Hospitallers of St. John of God, and the Teutonic order”(Britannica) affiliated with Roman Catholicism. As consecrated religious, they were to pray the…

Confessions by St. Augustine is a personal conversion story, in which the author openly speaks of the trials he faced during his journey to find God. St. Augustine's clear and unabashed admiration and devotion to God enlightens the reader to the significance of his spiritual epiphany. Augustine recounts the many transgressions he committed before he accepted Christianity and how despite his obvious shortcomings, the Lord still forgave him. The portrait of God created by Augustine shows a…

SITHOAAG: Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” captures the intensity of the Great Awakening. He implies during the sermon that if “natural men” don’t change their ways, they will undoubtedly endure the “wrath of God”. The ultimate goal of the sermon is to make us understand our situation and persuade the audience that all men are dependent on God for salvation through vivid imagery and by using accusatory diction and different rhetorical…

For example, he utilizes horrific diction in the quote “The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber, the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them, the flames do now rage and glow.” (pg. 153) Through his utilization of horrific diction such as “burns”, “damnation”, and “furnace” to express fear, he convinced unconverted Puritans to be born again. He also convinced the Puritans to convert to Puritanism with morbid diction…

In the year 1939, William Butler Yeats penned Purgatory (Viana, Maria Rita Drumond). The short play focuses on an Old Man, who returns to his ancestral home in the hope of eradicating the sins that he sees surrounding him, though his logic is twisted (Viana, Maria Rita Drumond). It is this deranged logic that prompts him to murder his father and son in retribution for their sins. The Old Man’s mother is described by him as an apparition stuck in limbo, forced to relive the night of her son’s…

In recent weeks, social media networks have been flooding with campaigns to construct monuments of several historical figures from colonial America on the Washington Mall. Congressmen from New England and the Mid-Atlantic have produced a series of controversial bills to establish these monuments, and the most exciting perhaps, is one of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who shapes the beginnings of American religion. Anne Hutchinson was remarkable in many ways. Not only did she initiate religious…

that have been prompted are: “At what point have you sought too far in the pursuit of knowledge?”, “Is all that you have lost comparable to all that you have gained in the pursuit?”, and ”Why is a woman depicted as both a bringer of salvation and damnation?”. In all three of the readings, the most common underlying theme dealt with the fine line between the attainment of knowledge and power. Prompting me to ask the fourth question of, “Did Zeus/God go to far or did the lesser beings ergo humans…

the person who doesn’t believe in Allah as he is required to, is a disbeliever who would be doomed to Hell eternally. Thus, one of the primary responsibilities of the Muslim ruler is to spread Islam throughout the world, saving them from eternal damnation. So, now that ISIS has established a caliphate, it must expand into non-Muslim territory, and is obligated to do so at least once a year. Its tactics like beheadings, crucifixions, and enslavement of women and children are meant to terrorize…