Pneuma

C. Lecture 3 –Thessalonians Word Count: 524 1. How should one respond to those who cite 1 Thessalonians 4:13 as a reason for Christians not to grieve when a fellow believer passes away? One major theme of these letters is eschatology regarding the return of Christ. Verse13 has been abused by some believers and used as a directive to not grieve when a loved one goes to “sleep” (a euphemism for death). Grieving is natural and dangerous to suppress. Instead, Paul is making a distinction between…

Pentecost, the birth of the Church, is a defining event in Christianity. Without the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, our Church may not exist. The power of the Holy Spirit propelled the Church outward from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. Pentecost is not the first time the Holy Spirit appeared. The Holy Spirit is present in the Old Testament, in the ministry of Jesus and then culminates for all time at Pentecost. The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is present in…

by platonic doctrines, and used to explain bodily functions If one's crasis was balanced then the person was considered healthy, but If the crasis was unbalanced then sickness would occur. The most important out of all of the crasis was the vital pneuma, the “life force” which was pushed through the body, resulting in a pulse. In this way, cultural and philosophical beliefs popular in Roman society were further combined with the anatomical…

Thoughts of the Collective Psychology presents several explanations for instances of indecision and the iconic angelic and fiendish voices inside the mind. The concept of dualism and fragmentation of the mind has existed since Aristotle and Plato, but Robert Louis Stevenson captured the quintessential belief behind dualism in his novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Jekyll explores the duality of a human mind through theoretical experiments which eventually produce two…

The relationship between Vitalism, and the opposing Mechanism in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries was complex, and often fraught with the confounding effects of religion. Depending on the social and historical context, vitalism has either been radically opposed to accepted Christian teachings, or a very quaint, and somewhat religious pseudo-scientific explanation for biological phenomena. In some sense, it seems as though the very concept of vitalism is analogous to the belief in…

For growing up in a religious, Puritan household with traditional Christian beliefs, Emily Dickinson has challenged the power of religion in many of her poems. From refusing to be baptized, to staying home from church, Dickinson can easily be viewed as an anti-Christian author, when in fact, she was just struggling with the acceptance of god and the expectations that society has created that go hand in hand with being a Christian. Anti-Christian is a situation in which one denies or opposes…

Voices of Criticism The development of modern medical technology is increasingly impacting this strict dichotomy. cosmetic, application of assisted reproductive technology, artificial limbs, transgender, blurring the distinction between natural and artificial, man and machine, resulting in blurred personal identity. Descartes' dualism has become as the theoretical basis of patient materialization and reductionism. Mark Sullivan stated that Descartes' dualism such that split relationship between…

Though Nicodemus never bothered to know why a man should be born again, Jesus responded by breaking his concept to smaller pieces. Jesus made use of apologetic in this discourse to illustrate the essential of the second birth. Nicodemus should understand there is no short cut to entering heaven. Man must be born again. It is the only way to enter the kingdom of God. Man must “be born of Water and of the Spirit” (John 3:5) to enter the Kingdom of God. If one considers that the discourse is on the…

ability to actually observe human skeletons washed out of their graves. However, the remainder of his theories presented various errors that would be taken for granted until Vesalius. The main error asserted by his work was the theory of the three pneumas, a physiological theory that proposed that there were three essential spirits that were responsible for the functions of organs. His studies in anatomy were small in comparison to his work in the rest of medicine, despite his emphasis on the…