On the Bondage of the Will

The Cultural Context of Understanding When I think about my cultural background and values I believe that it was heavily impacted by strong African American women. I grew up in a Christian home, therefore I have been reared in church since I was born. From the beginning it’s been my mother, my grandmother (deceased) and my siblings. We really didn’t have stable male role model in the home. Even though my family didn’t have much we took pride in what we did have knowing that I could be worse.…

Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was corrected and the slave exchange Washington, D.C., was nullified. Kansas-Nebraska Act, May 30, 1854. It permitted individuals in the regions of Kansas and Nebraska to choose for themselves whether to permit bondage inside their fringes. Criminal slave act, was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as a major aspect of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern…

“Women at War,” (A&E Television Networks, 1994), 46:07 mins. The unsung hero’s of the Civl War are the many women that stepped up to the plate without being asked. Still today with little to no recognition women played a huge role in the civil war. The civil war also meant independence for woman also not only the African Americans. Clara Barton brought women out and wanted equality for all. She founded the American Red Cross and performed nurse duties during the Civil War. She was a teacher in…

Throughout the Renaissance, pockets of people were dissent about the way the Catholic Church influenced politics in western Europe. Furthermore, the Catholic church increasing power and wealth allowed it to manipulate the political atmosphere which created an upheaval with many Christian groups. Due to this schism, religious leaders began reforming Christianity into a separate religion just like that of the Orthodoxias. Moreover, these splinter groups are often all categorized as Protestant…

In “African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel”, Raboteau discusses the story of Exodus and how it has been used to represent two contradictory ideologies in America. White Christian settlers saw themselves as the New Israel; they were leaving behind the crown, crossing the ocean to a new world, much like the crossing of the Red Sea into the Promised Land. Like Exodus, God gave them the right to possess this new land. Raboteau describes how at first, White Christian settlers saw…

During the past decade, the acceptance of certain individuals and lifestyles has become more common, but the acceptance of criticism and prejudice has been a disaster. The country of America has come to a stage where they are afraid of offending any individual. With the making of “space spaces” on a college campus and the removal of certain “offensive” works in American literature, where does the country draw the line on whether the shielding of the young minds is a good thing or a bad one? The…

The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Abu Ghirab stories are both similar and yet different. The forms of abuse experienced in both cases were unimaginable and dehumanizing. No one should have to experience these kinds of treatment at any time in their lives. In both stories, persons experienced forms of psychological, emotional, verbal, physical, and many other forms of abuse. These individuals were dehumanized, tortured, humiliated, pressured, suffered aggression, harassed and coerced. They…

downfall of the nation. The strong emphasis on spiritual matters sets Exodus 19-21 apart from Hammurabi’s code. In the beginning of Exodus 20 the Lord said “I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:2-4). This conveys s strong emphasis on the responsibility to God, which cannot be found in Hammurabi’s…

how you keep God's laws. The heresies were saying that the Colossian people needed to keep their old testament rituals of the law and that they will get to heaven through their works. Paul's response to the heresies is that Christ canceled the bondage of the law, and put it to death on the cross. You are now saved by God's gift of grace because Jesus covered the law for you. Then Paul goes on to say "don't be beguiled, don't be tricked, don't let anybody make a spiritual judgment on you on…

the minorities who have bought into the ideal of White supremacy. Racism, the unequal distribution of wealth, monopolized societies, capitalism, greed, self-gain, and inequality are just few expressions that continue to keep African Americans in bondage. We remain in the vicious cycle of being the class of people that have never had their fair share of the pie, and white conservatives have been very strategic with how they have maintained their status. Racism is engrained in our systems and…