John Keats

Discipleship has tried to be explained for many years and in many ways. It seems a new book on the topic comes out almost every year. Some books try to give new approaches and ways to disciple while others focus on what it means to be a disciple. Every book that I have read on discipleship, no matter what angle they are writing from, is centered on Jesus and how he discipled. The same is true for Bonhoeffer’s book, The Cost of Discipleship, and Eims’ book, The Lost Art of Disciple Making. Even…

ideologies: equality, for example. The United States values both individual liberty and equality, though the two do not function well cohesively. A society that fosters individual liberty cannot ensure equality. Authors including Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, and Adam Smith discuss various elements of individual liberty and many of their presented principles are problematic. While liberty is a respectable and well-developed…

Tragedy is the catalyst of adversity. People often attempt to right wrongs that have occurred, whether they be by their own hand or by the power of circumstance. Unfortunately, not all wrongs are remedied as planned by those who seek rectification. Heywood Broun once said, “The tragedy of life is not that the man loses, but that he almost wins,” which is especially true in the case of Kino. The tragic incident of his son, Coyotito, being bitten by a venomous snake incited Kino to desperately…

Law and society, although different, are directly related to each other. Laws are meant to be rules that reflect values of the society, although this is often not the case. Laws are often created and applied in ways that help the majority and marginalized unwanted groups such as the poor and minority groups. While Rousseau views law and society as a tool used to maintain the divide between the wealthy and the poor from the onset of civilization, Barkman sees law and society as a pure idea that…

Common Sense v. The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine were both highly honored because they jumpstarted the Revolution. Although these two men had very different lives, they both had one goal in common, which was to help America break our ties with Britain. These two men were both highly skilled writers, and wrote two of the piece which are still thought to be the most impactful documents that shaped the United States of America. Paine published Common Sense in 1776,…

Before the Great Awakening, Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, a German pastor’s son, born on November 6, 1692 in Lingen, Germany answered the call to theology. Shortly thereafter, whether answering a call from God, or at the urging of the Reverend Sicco Tjady, Frelinghuysen came to America, because the Dutch population needed ministers,/ along with his wife Eva Terhune, a farmer 's daughter; and five sons that all entered the ministry, and two daughters that married clergymen./ Frelinghuysen’s…

Locke and Rousseau were both concerned about the relationship between liberty and the civil state. The civil state is a potential threat to the liberty of its citizens. For both authors this liberty exists naturally in the state of nature. Both authors use the state of nature to establish that liberty preceded political society and how a properly designed government can maintain this natural liberty. Because their method of deriving the ideal state from the state of nature is the same, the stark…

Thomas Hobbes & John Locke John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were both known as social contract theorists and natural law theorists. Both completely different in terms of their stand and conclusions in several laws of nature. They were two English philosophers that have made huge impact not only in the seventeenth century but also by helping to establish a strong government for the rights of the people. Hobbes born in 1588 and Locke later born in 1632, for Hobbes people did not have a right to…

visited by the angels. Also when the angels visit the shepherds in the fields, then again at the temple with Simeon and Anna, and at the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist when the heavens open and the Holy Spirit descended in the body and God speaks saying that Jesus is his son. Then at the Transfiguration of Jesus he takes Peter, John, and James to witness on the mountain as he and the two men, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glorious splendor, are talking together. It is stated by…

The Middle Ages also more commonly known as the Dark Age was a period in time that lasted for a thousand years starting sometime the fifth and officially ending all the way in the fifteenth century. This period in time is mostly characterized in modern day by subjects such as the black plague, the hundred years war, tales of brave knights, rigid class systems and heavy religious influences. As the fourteenth century came about there began to be a gradual transition into what would be known as…