Exile and the Kingdom

During the nineteenth century, Europe began seeing a number of ideologies emerge. However none more so than Liberalism and Conservatism have managed to affect European politics and split Europe in its progression into the nineteenth century and away from the events experienced in the eighteenth century. Despite both ideologies being important in structuring Europe, it would be Liberalism that would achieve a more effective path in nation building and unification as the pressing issue of…

knowledgeable, wise and refined. She had read and she had learned." (p. 1107). She was also both fearless and selfless as she was willing to risk her life for the sake of the kingdom that had fallen in peril due to the newly acquired custom of the mad king. Upon her request to marry King Shahrayar and enact her plan to save the kingdom, she was vehemently opposed by her father, the Chief Vizier of the king who feared for his daughter 's…

1. Who was Muhammad? According to a Britannica article by Annemarie Schimmel, the Islam religion views Muhammad as the last in a series of prophets. Equally important, Muhammad is considered the messenger of Allah given the words to write the Qur'an through the angel Gabriel (Schimmel, 2016). 2. How is the Qur’an structured? When is Ramadan observed? The Qur’an has 114 chapters describing different aspects of life, including God, Satan, Heaven, Hell, social justice, humanity, and so forth…

Biblical theology is the way a person interprets the bible. Interpreting the bible is an approach that concerns the understanding of earlier scriptures, knowledge of world history, and events and statements to understand the world we live in. The bible can also be analyzed as a big story, consisting of a setting, characters and plot. To understand biblical theology, one must first understand the bible as a whole. The Bible is a composition of 66 books by several authors in different time…

the city to a distant battlefield to engage Maurya's forces. Meanwhile, Maurya's general and spies bribed the Nanda's corrupt general and created an atmosphere of civil war in the kingdom, which culminated in the death of the heir to the throne. Upon the civil unrest in the kingdom, Nanda resigned and disappeared into exile. Chanakya contacted the prime minister, Rakshasa, and convinced him that his loyalty was to Magadha, not to the Nanda dynasty, and that he remains in office. Chanakya…

The issue I chose to discuss was mental illness awareness and how a person who has one is treated within their society and I would argue that my fable effectively addresses this issue. For this to be effective, I decided to take a tactic that was used after the Middle Ages and apply it to a futuristic society to explain the devastating effects that treating someone with a mental illness has an outsider who is unfit to live in the society from which he or she resides can have. The strategy that…

Hosea is a prophetic book telling story of the prophet, Hosea who both lived and prophesied in the northern kingdom of Israel. Amongst scholars, the consensus regarding the dating of the events detailed within Hosea as having occurred between 755-722 BCE, stemming largely from the books opening verse which detail the kings of Judah and Israel during the ministry of Hosea (1:1). Nearly immediately, Hosea is established as a prophet whom the Lord spoke “through” and “to” (1:2), however, there is…

In the study of the history of the Ancient Near East, the year 1200 B.C. marks a profound and unexpected shift in the balance of power among the various empires of the region. For the previous 2,000 years, the region of the world bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and by Egypt to its west, caressed by the mountains of Cappadocia and Armenia and the River Araxes to its north, rebuffed by the deserts of Arabia to its south, and blessed with the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and their many tributaries…

Undoubtedly, the United States of America is a powerful kingdom with a history of prosperity in the midst of adversity, but Jesus will not pledge His allegiance to any nation, no matter how great it may be. For, He will not pledge His allegiance to anyone or anything but God Himself and to the Kingdom of God. In fact, He created a distinction between God and country when He said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar 's…

In the fourth century B.C., a theorist of drama, named Aristotle, devised a definition for what he considered a tragic hero. He described a tragic hero as someone who was of noble statue, of good character, but possessed human-like flaws. Aristotle also stated that a tragic hero’s downfall was due to his or her own mistakes through free choice, not fate. The tragic hero was also described to have great misfortune that was not entirely deserved, ending in a fall, but not total destruction…