Faith-based

Young Goodman Brown, a man who decided to test his faith. He believes that his morals, and beliefs could never be changed. In reality, he never needed to challenge the path of goodness, if he stays on the same road, he will stay the “goodman” that he is, without malicious thinking. We are born pure, and with goodness, but through life we gain knowledge that distort our thinking. That was the case of Young Goodman Brown, he decided to go on the journey that he knew he will be tempted by malicious…

Art and religion are creations of the human brain (Martin 1). The brain uses the power of imagination to envision a past and a future, and the brain creates fantasies to fill in where the facts confound understanding (1). According to Claudia Martin, writer of The Intimate Relationship between Art and Religion: Human value systems have their roots in our emotional brain centers; both art and religion are deeply tied in with the emotional centers of the human brain stem in their quest to find…

How a miracle means varies depending on the religion, the person, and the region in which it is constructed. Miracles can be ongoing, they can be as simple as a story, or one miraculous event, and they can be a combination. The meaning of a miracle is complex, pulling from several various meanings throughout history, religion, and personal connection. Within the Buddhist religion, miracles are a largely complicated aspect of the Buddhist belief. The particular Buddhist Saint miracle story of…

The Misfit was once a man of god, and he was brought up in a good family. However he experiences unexplained situations and loses his faith. The Misfit was put into the penitentiary for reasons that he does not know. Although being in a penitentiary takes a toll on one mentally, he even discusses how being surrounded by four walls all the time makes you forget things, The Misfit emerged…

In this encyclopedic entry, I intend to highlight and critically discuss the key sociological concepts presented by Peter L Berger. Berger provides an interesting case in which his work develops empirical arguments both for and against the theory of secularization. By looking at his two major books, The Sacred Canopy and The Desecularization of the World, this account will be looking at his theory of religious world-construction, his key arguments of secularization and later his arguments of…

Hawthorne’s view of Sin and Confession Some Christians believe that in order to have true confession, it needs to be intimate and solely between God and the sinner, while others believe that for confession to be real, it must be in public. Many believe that, for true confession, Christians must confess to other Christians and confide in them. In the seventeenth century, the Puritan beliefs dominated many of the colonies. Puritans’ believed that sin was rather taboo, and it was something to be…

Jews. In “The Complete Idiots Guide to World Religions”, Toropov and Buckles clarify that the Christian faith is not unanimous and have a wide variety of beliefs about their faith (Toropov & Buckles, 103.) In other words, if one follower of the Christian faith believes one thing about doctrine, scriptural interpretation, history, etc. does not signify that another follower of the Christian faith believes in the same…

A place where Sartre’s influence on de Beauvoir’s work is commonly analyzed is in the similarities between Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, and de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Both philosophers were existentialist atheists and had several perspectives in common. However, they had their disagreements as well. Sartre believed in the idea of essence, which for some objects and nonrational beings, it is already determined. Humans, however, do not have a determined essence. Unlike objects, humans have…

Narrowed debatable Claim: In the essay Self-Reliance Emerson has various claims which are all rational, his argument would be viable in today’s world because of a new world with the freedom that allows people to express themselves, throughout several parts of the world there is a numerous amount of people that have adapted to similar beliefs. Body Paragraph: Society has the right to freely express what they believe is moral or fallacious without the matter of others opinion affect them.…

Lewis struggle in life, especially after he loses his most loving wife Joy Davidson due to cancer. Reading the book, one will see how a believer of God journeys through negative moments of belief, reflecting on his faith, then realizing the fault in it which enables Lewis to purify his faith. In the first chapter of this book, Lewis faces grief, doubt, and fear. He describes his experiences of sadness, self-pity, isolation, restlessness, foggy mind, fluttering stomach, and even uncertainties,…