Hermeneutics

Transitions in this life consist of many different things, including but not limited to: birth, coming of age, marriage, and into the religious life. Each an important piece of time and defining moment within a person’s religion and culture, representing past events through the current and future lives of the members participating within them. What does each event or custom within a religion represent for each of its followers? Does each transition in life represent more than just, what its…

Personal religious beliefs can be defined as the constitutional protection which is against compulsory immunizations. Accordingly, it can be defined as the reality of the mythological, supernatural or spiritual aspects of a religion. According to, (Gibson, & Randall, 1988), religious belief is distinct from the religious practices with some believer’s not practicing religion as some practitioners not believing religion. There are several forms of religious belief as acknowledged by, (Josephson,…

The topic I chose to discuss in this essay is the Original Creation of the Earth. In this essay, I will discuss, compare and contrast the viewpoints of the Nebular Hypothesis vs. the six-day creation from the Old-Earth Secular View and Young-Earth Secular View. The Young Earth creationist believes that the Earth was created in the six-day creation and the old earth creationist believes that the Earth was created billions of years ago during the time of evolution of the Solar System. It’s really…

The book, The Lord Reigns: A Theological Handbook to the Psalms is written by James L. Mays. It is a book about the book of Psalms viewed as a scripture and a liturgy. The book is concerned with the use of Psalms, and how its central message of the Lord reigns is portrayed. Mays proposes that the word “the Lord reigns” is the main point of Psalms that describes the sovereignty of God. It describes the contents and context of the Psalms individual and as a whole in relation to the other books of…

“Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth… I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” (Jn. 17:17 & 23 NIV) Two things essential for a person spiritual development are being grounded in the Scripture, as the man that built his house upon the rock (Mt. 724-25) and developing relationships in fellowship with the body of Christ (Heb. 10:25). Feminism, Womanism, and…

What is the Research Problem? How significant is the problem to nursing practice? At the beginning of MacKusick and Minick’s article, the research problem is stated as “nursing workforce projections indicate the registered nurse (RN) shortage may exceed 500,000 RNs by 2025 (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2010; Cipriano, 2006; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2002)” (2010). The problem of the nursing shortage causes multiple complications within the nursing…

Essay: Interpretation of Text – Week Four Divine Presence Amid Violence Lynn Wilson Reading the Bible, especially the Old Testament, is very challenging due to stories that are deeply enmeshed in violence. This violence completely contradicts my modern day interpretation of the compassionate Christ that I learned about while singing, Jesus, Loves Me. The Hebrew Bible presents some extremely violent text and when taken out of context it becomes difficult to find a connection between the…

Divine Command require hermeneutics in our respective sacred texts and this would create tension and conflict since the quran and the bible mandate a different kinds of moral codes. Similarly, The social contract would fail because this one describes human nature as brutish,…

Augustine’s Deep Thoughts of Sin and Suffering Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, is unarguably one of the most influential church fathers whose views have helped shape modern protestant theology. He largely contributed to shaping a bible-focused theology that transformed Europe and the majority of the world, and many modern theologians dream of reaching the international stature that Augustine did. But to reach that stage that Augustine got to, did not come easy. He went through a lot of doubts…

Madelyn Bartolome English 123 Prof. Haslam 15 December 2017 My Last Letter In the Newton Letter, John Banville does not attempt to convey a story. He questions how well we know one another. The narrator, a biographer, writing about the life of Isaac Newton, has arrived at a standstill and has attempted to find an escape in a rented cottage on a vast countryside property. The first confirmation he needs to go on is a puzzling letter sent to John Locke in which Newton suggests his emergency of…