Doubt: A Parable

In the parable “Doubt” by John Patrick Shanley stated “Sister Aloysius: These three students with the highest marks. Are they the most intelligent children in your class? Sister James: No, I wouldn’t say they are. But they work the hardest” (1470). Not all highest…

Like many other American renaissance writing, Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces readers with a parable story. In the story" The Minister’s Black Veil," is introduced in the seventh century in puritan New England where the focus is around the minister, Parson Hooper. Some may wonders why the minister chooses to wear a black veil. The ambiguity that makes the reaction of the townspeople all the more telling of their inherent sin and hypocritical nature. While speculating as to what horrific crime the…

Analyzation of the Biblical Text in Luke 14:25-35 The writing in Luke 14:25-35 is an adaptation of the costs of being a disciple of Christ. The setting for this pericope is crucial because it gives people insight on what Jesus was doing at that time. Furthermore, the pericope opens with “large crowds were traveling with him.”(Luke 14:25, NRSV) meaning that the crowd found something in Jesus because they were traveling with him toward Jerusalem. Moreover, these ‘large crowds’ had left their homes…

Jesus Christ often taught His followers in parables (cf. Mt. 13:34). On one occasion Jesus taught a parable of laborers in the vineyard and the master in the parable agreed to give the workers whatever is right (Mt. 20:4). Christians need to always be concerned with what is the right thing and to pursue righteousness (Mt. 6:33). The only way that one can be sure whether what he or she is practicing is right will be if they test it against the Divine standard, God’s Word (1 Thess. 5:21-22; 1 Jn.…

wrong directions. He eventually picks up a heresy known as Manichaeism, which is the heresy that has the view of a good and a bad god. Since he grew up with the Catholic viewpoint, it was hard for him to fully accept Manichaeism without some sort of doubt. Two noticeable conflictions between the two beliefs was the notion of evil. If God was and is this all powerful, all knowing, holy, and perfect God, how and why is there evil in the world today? Augustine rightly questioned the supremacy,…

Austin Price The Gospel of John is the last of the four gospels in the Bible. It is a different perspective from the simple style of the three synoptic gospels. It is the only gospel that does not use parables as a way of telling us how Jesus taught and is the only account of several events, such as Jesus turning water into wine. The Gospel of John was written anonymously but many theologians believe that it was written by the apostle John sometime around 95 CE in Ephesus. The basic story is…

This gospel did not cease to stir up controversies within the Church itself in the earliest times when it was first published, but was soon recognized as the Word of God and the Apostles. The gospel of John, then, was made and redone, and was no doubt only published after the death of its author, circa AD 95, as a small paragraph added at the end implies. In its last wording it seems that it was rebuilt around the three pascuas that speak of the public life of Jesus. There is an important…

numerous biblical allusions in the poem. Coleridge designs his poem to be a moral parable to the life of a Christian in his time period, and his views on the failings and trappings of religion. His poem parallels the life of the mariner and the life of the wedding guest to Christians at different points in their walks of faith, narrating the causes and doubts that occurred in his own life, while responding to those doubts with the societally accepted narrative of Christian faith. The parallels…

I read the book of Mark annually when going through the Bible with my Sunday school class but I’ve never done a deep review or study of this book. For me Mark has always seemed a little less organized then Matthew. Mark provides an excellent resource of for information of the things that Jesus said during his time on earth but for me I generally reference the other gospels more frequently then the book of Mark. Now after reading it again and remembering that Mark was with Peter and Paul I’m…

the memory of me is sweeter than honey and the possession of me sweeter than the honeycomb” (319). We hear in the Book of Revelation of the wedding feast of the lamb and in the Gospel of Matthew Jesus talks of the wedding feast in three different parables. Sirach goes on to say “those who eat of me will hunger for more and those who drink of me will thirst for more” (319). Wisdom in its earthly, human form is seen as something that no matter how much you take in you will always want more. In…