Divine

One of the best modern day adaptations of the Divine Comedy is the movie Seven. In this Dramatic Mystery, John Doe, a serial killer, carries out horrific murders based on the concept of contrapasso from the Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is referenced several times and seems to be the source for the serial killers seven murders as each relate to a deadly sin. From the opening credits to the seventh day of the film, the movie replicates Dante’s use of symmetry: the number seven refers to the…

Philosophy’s (LP) assessment of divine foreknowledge and the nature of God to be inconsistent with the concept of full free will; her argument is both insufficient and unsatisfactory iff viewed from a position of theological revelation. I argue that revelatory theology necessarily requires either a complete and deliberate predetermination of events or a minimum value of immutable events. While LP’s argument does allow for limited agent free will, it does so only if divine knowledge is also…

antigone evidently demonstrates the contention of common law and divine law.Here divine law is spoken to by antigone while mainstream law is spoken to by ruler Creon. Aside from this there are different characters in the play who maintains Antigone in the play the contention is not of identities but rather of ideas– the contention of standards. The ruler bolsters mainstream law while others underpins the religious soul that is divine law. In any case is the standard of the god in which after…

James Rachels 's critique of the Divine Command Theory in "The Elements of Moral Theory" rests on three points. Rachels 's first point is that the idea of God "making" something right is a mysterious and therefore not useful assertion. Another point raised by Rachels is the problem that…

Allison’s childhood, and David’s childhood too. These made up a huge part of us knowing about everyone, and learning how to understand how they felt. Relating back to the fears, Jade’s childhood wasn’t the best, like all the other children at the Divine Path. She played the piano, and it was her pride, her joy, her everything. Jacob wanted to stop her from doing that because she didn’t speak loud enough during prayers, and she didn’t do her chores quick enough. Jacob was saying that the piano…

it was divine intervention. Divine intervention has been in belief ever since religion came to be. It is the belief that God or Gods come down to meddle with the natural order in order to save someone. Divine intervention is not fate but rather the ability to choose one’s path in life. Divine intervention has a rich history in religion and has been used to explain the unknown and great. The story of Noah’s ark is a famous example of divine intervention. God despises the wickedness…

most prominent representatives of the early Renaissance were Petrarch and Pico de Mirandola. Both introduced humanism to the Renaissance and were influenced by the late medieval writer and poet Dante Alighieri. Dante was best known for writing “The Divine Comedy”, which is a trilogy of poems that take you on a journey through the three layers of the afterlife:…

vision with consideration for human virtue and the intervention of divine powers. While intervention of divine powers play a major role in the plot, they contribute less to human virtue. Throughout the story of the Iliad, human virtue seems to take a back-seat…

Divine revelation is unexpected. Divine revelation brings us closer to Omni competence. Revelation has an engulfing impact; thus it is the primary trait of theological existence. Revelation is God’s unveiling of Himself; it His voluntary act of disclosure, and it comes from eternity. Transcendent revelation is an awe-filled experience which comes from God’s personal initiative. If God did not want us to know Him, we would not know anything about Him or know that He even existed, because of this…

Although quiet similar to the divine right rule, there are some factors which distinguish the Mandate of Heaven from the divine rights rule. It mainly differed on these key factors: • Unlike Christianity, which is monotheistic Chinese religion, is polytheistic. There were several minor Gods, heroes and other mythical figures that Chinese believed in unlike just a single omnipotent figure called God. For this reason the Mandate of Heaven was granted by a supernatural community and not just a…