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Jason Bock doesn't know what he believes anymore, spiritually speaking. A self-described agnostic-going-on-atheist, he does know that he doesn't buy into his parents' Catholicism. When the local bully lays him out with a punch, Jason gets a literal new perspective on the town's water tower—the tallest structure in the area, it has a presence. Not to mention a belly full of the stuff-of-life: water. He figures that worshiping the town water tower is as arbitrary as any other god or religion, so…

The poem, "Holy Sonnet XIV" was written by John Donne and published in the year of 1633, two years after his death. Donne was born and raised as a Catholic, later becoming an Anglican cleric. The Christian faith is clearly reflected in his writings, and his "Holy Sonnet XIV", is a sinner's prayer to God. Through the utilization of diction use and literary devices such as allusion and imagery, Donne draws the audience into intimately experiencing the speaker's desperation, despair, and devotion…

I. Historical Framework A. The French Revolution and the Protestant Reformation • Individualism grew out of the “European reaction to the French Revolution” (Lukes 3). • It “proclaimed the individual as sovereign over himself in the most absolute sense” (Lukes 5). • Many eighteenth century philosophers including John Locke, “considered the individual as the center and preached egoism” (Lukes 7). • The French Revolution was a success due to “individualist legislation” (Lukes 14). • The protestant…

The Trinity Describe the traditional Christian doctrine of the Trinity, together with Biblical evidence for that doctrine. (include a discussion of the concept of “consubstantiation.” Christianity is a monotheistic religion which teaches that there is only one God. This Christian God however, is a Holy Trinity, or tri-unity. This means that the one heavenly nature of God is shared by three equal persons namely, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. There is much evidence for this…

In John Donne, there are three short poems, "Love 's Deity," The Dream," and "Self-Love" they are great poems that discuss the main themes such as love, imagery, nature, and dream of a man tried to be loved with a girl in life. It is an awesome poem; it brings many things to the reader and the audience has feeling peace, exciting, joy, and happy in life and society. Love is a series of strong emotions, the mentality, and different attitudes ranging from the personal feelings of the joy. It can…

Is the Bible infallible? In order to answer this question we must first understand the word infallible. The definition of infallible is “incapable of making mistakes or being wrong.” I believe one hundred percent the bible is incapable of being wrong. It is God’s word and God is never wrong. We as humans continually make mistakes but our Creator never does. He never does something wrong. He is perfect. We can not comprehend God’s power and ability to do anything, His power is so large we can…

They believe in the Trinity, but not that the Trinity is one. The Council of Constantinople “came to be seen as the second of the ecumenical councils.” There were three heresies that were condemned by the Council of Constantinople. Arianism: ‘one Godhead, power and substance of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, whose dignity is equal and majesty co-eternal, who are in three perfect hypostases or three perfect persons’ Macedonianism: ‘they believed in the deity of the Son but held the…

The Council of Nicea was a group of bishops convened to Bithynia by the Roman emperor Constantine I in Ad 325. This was the first effort to attain a consensus in the church through an assembly representing through all of the Christian kingdom. Its main accomplishments was the settlement of the Christian issue and their nature of the Son of God and his connection to the God the Father and the construction of the Creed of Nicaea. The Construction of the first council resulted in the first…

REFLECTION ONE Doctrine Doctrine is the set of beliefs, instructions, or principles of a particular group or system. It is these principles which mark the difference between the “us” and the “them” of any group or system. Example are found in all spectrums of life, for example, American politics–after 9/11, the United States’ “with us or against us” policy which is considered one of the four distinct areas of Bush Doctrine. The United Nations has its Peacekeeping Doctrine, known as…

a response in the reader, who would be expected to admire and sympathize with a hero. And this of course, if the hero is the devil, raises a problem” . “ Many readers have admired Satan’s splendid recklessness, if not heroism, in confronting the Godhead. Satan’s defiance, anger, willfulness, and resourcefulness define a character who strives never to yield. In many ways Satan is heroic when compared to such Classical prototype”. He is heroic when compared to such Classical prototypes as…