Hermeneutics

William Wycherley’s, The Country Wife employs characters that challenge traditional gender norms and go against societal expectations to generate comic relief. His main character, Horner pretends to be sexually impotent, while the supposed innocent woman from the country, Margery Pinchwife is sexually precocious. Many of the women in this play are provocative and secretive, while many of the men are clueless and conceited cuckolds. Wycherley uses satiric reversal, humor, and the challenging of…

Pauline Studies & New Perspective - Philemon The letter to Philemon is the shortest of the writing of Paul. It deals with the practice of slavery in suggestive form, he was in prison at the time of this letter. In writing this paper is it has caused me to thinks in “historic-cultural critism” of the Scripture. I will present a contrast of Onesimus’s Life with the history of the Island of Puerto Rico both of them under an oppressive control and indeterminate destiny. During the time of Paul's…

Marxist political theory19. Clearly the turn of the 20th century has heavily influenced many world leaders to make a change in how their country is governed. Italian Marxist politician and philosopher Gianni Vattimo explains it best in his 2011 book Hermeneutic Communism, Vattimo…

An Analysis of Lynn White 's Views of Eco-theology in Comparison with the Response of the Academic Community In 1967, Lynn White published an article in the Science journal that ushered in years of debate over the role of Christianity in the ecological crisis that the world is in today. In his article, White argued that Christianity is anthropocentric in nature, meaning that the religion views the world through a point of view that is human-centered. Subsequently, White makes a case regarding…

Over the course of history, various developments took place which led to the formation of sociology. The Enlightenment was a period of philosophical enquiry starting around the sixteenth century with the rise of the scientific method. Before this society and the nature of reality had largely been governed by the teachings of the church and was under state control. The enlightenment was based on rationalist principles, values of empiricism and the belief that the world could be better understood…

Quantitative Methods The quantitative research question to be examined is looking at an individual’s personal experience with changes in occupations. Quantitative methods that could be utilized to answer this question are non-experimental designs / ex post facto, experimental and developmental research Non-experimental / ex post facto methods are used when the independent variable cannot be controlled or manipulated (Smith & Davis 2015). An appropriate method of data collection for this…

Asma Barlas performed a workshop on Islam and Autonomy, she showed a picture of a Burqa-clad woman which raised the question “does the Qur’an support gender equality?” Barlas raises many issues addressing her research subject about what the Quran says about patriarchy. I will be discussing Barlas arguments in depth and viewing whether the Quran truly treats males and females equally. In summary of Barlas article she states, if cultural modes represent differentiation then what better maker on…

Objectives and Theoretical Framework Current trends suggest that high school student motivation is at an all-time low (Statistics Canada, 2002) and empirical work reports that teachers feel underprepared to deal with this crisis (Turner, Christensen, & Meyer, 2010). At the same time there is increasing pressure for schools and teachers to produce intrinsically motivated learners who display creativity and innovation, skills linked to success in the knowledge economy (Kalantzis et al., 2003).…

Introduction To write an exegesis we first have to understand what an exegesis is. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary an exegesis is defined as: “an explanation or critical interpretation of a text.” Now that we understand what an exegesis is trying to complete we can go ahead and do research on a passage of our choosing. For this paper I decided to choose the passage Jonah 4. In this paper we will start off at looking at the context of the passage and then we will do two different…

Martha Grace Weatherill Martha Grace Weatherill Methods of Reading the Bible A Critical Reading of the Story of Ananias and Sapphira Using Historical and Theological Approaches Acts 5:1-11 The story of Ananias and Sapphira and indeed, the book of Acts are of great importance because it informs the reader on the history of the primitive church at Jerusalem. Fee and Stuart point out that the author, Luke, is a Gentile whose narrative could be seen as a source of Hellenistic historiography,…