Immanence

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is a novel about the adventures of a man named Lemuel Gulliver, who travels through various kingdoms and encounters a wide variety of people. Swift uses the differences between the communities of individuals Gulliver interacts with, as well as Gulliver’s views on and opinions of them, to repeatedly emphasize the central themes of the novel, especially social status. Influenced by his political and religious views and the government of his time, Jonathan Swift…

fruit, water or rice, as Havan (spiritual offerings) to various gods or goddesses. Therefore, as evaluated by Natalia Lidova (1994) the utilisation of mantras, yantras and the offering of a havan, assists Australian Hindus in reconstructing the immanence of a god or goddess; hence, rectifying the spiritual connection between themselves and the divine world (Cole and Morgan, 2000). Within the Shri Ganesha Temple (2015), it was evident that many deities were rectified as vibrant statues and…

Italian Futurism and English Vorticism are generally considered to be Modernist movements. Indeed, literary scholar Peter Childs includes Futurism and Vorticism in his seminal book aptly titled Modernism, placing them amongst other Modernist movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism (14). In one of Childs’s many definitions of Modernism, he argues that the movement is imbued with “radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic rather than chronological form,…

you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me” (John 17:21-23) God’s immanence manifests in all who…

“The insistence of God means that God calls for a response or, since God is not somebody who “does” things like call, it means that calling takes place in the middle voice, in and under the name of God,” (pg. 39). Caputo’s argument of the insistence of God as a call for a response in the middle voice refers back to his prior argument in chapter two of God praying. As he makes mention in the above quote, God is not somebody that calls or prays, because he is not a physical entity as human beings.…

Orsi ends his presence analysis with a modest prediction, in which he hopes that in the future, presence will have overtaken absence’s role in religious studies. As he states, “...it may be that...one day historians and scholars of religion will find it impossible to believe there ever lived on this planet counterparts of theirs who thought it was possible to study history or religion without the gods...” (251). Instead of the conventional histories and religious studies perspectives shaped by…

There once was a man named Henri De Lubac. He went all the way back to trace the origin of the 19th century attempts to construct humanism apart from God. There were four people that De Lubac focuses on in his writing that are considered to be contemporary thinkers. Those contemporary thinkers include: Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, and Comte. In the book The Drama of Atheist Humanism: The Search for New Man by Henri De Lubac, he discusses where each of these people stand and what has them on the…

IV. The Call for the Reconsideration of the Historicity of the Bodily Nature of Jesus’s Resurrection and Its Eschatological Implications Thus, I now turn to the matter of the historical credibility of Jesus’ “bodily resurrection” and its eschatological implications. Unlike Peacocke and Keller’s view of the bodily resurrection of Jesus, it is “credible” or “well-motivated belief” that the resurrection of Jesus was a “bodily” event that happened to Jesus based on the two traditions of many…

Piaget and Vygotsky: Similar Differences People recognize that Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky are two of the most influential thinkers in the world of developmental psychology. These two theorists are similar in several ways, but are also different in at least one key area that may not be obvious when generally studied (Lourenço, 2012, p. 282). It is important for educators to compare the philosophies of both Piaget and Vygotsky in order to become familiar with how children develop so that their…

A woman's role defines by how well she leads her household which can cause immanence pressure, incompleteness and frustration. Her future as married women requires her to accept this in order to gain independence and respect. The woman according to her society is now a full adult, Beauvoir gives a thorough analysis of the different…