Predestination

Arthur Dimmesdale: How Living a Lie Leaves One In The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale begins as the perfect image of a Puritan, a saint in the eyes off all the townspeople. However, Arthur Dimmesdale is nothing but a human, a mere representative of all who are capable of sin, a human who makes mistakes, just like all of the characters in this novel. However, out of all the characters that the reader becomes familiar with in the novel, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale alone completely changes.…

and unity influenced the social development of the colonies. Under the idea of a limited, self-government came the Puritan’s political system was formed. With hopes to sustain an economy, the ideas of trade, were used. The colonists’ ideas of predestination, shared sense of purpose, and religious tolerance and intolerance contributed to the development the New England colonies economically, politically, and socially. With the teachings of God, and the Puritan ideas based on those teachings,…

A helicopter is flying over the Amazon rainforest, and the most spectacular bird’s eye view can be observed; this is the luscious, natural production of the planet Earth. From above, only a field of rich green treetops can be seen. However, the simple blanket is covering a most extraordinary and complex ecosystem underneath, filled with thousands of species of flora and fauna. The rainforest has four main layers: the emergent layer, canopy, understory, and the forest floor. The multiple layers…

One common way to interpret Prospero, the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, is as a God figure. After all, Prospero reigns over the island and controls several characters. Most convincingly for this reading, he acts as the sole judge of the shipwrecked brethren he has not seen in twelve years. On the surface the reading is sound, but what might Shakespeare’s theologian contemporaries think about it, specifically the Protestant Reformers? On the Freedom of a Christian by…

The Pursuit of Perfection dealt with religious and moral reform movements in the 19th century in America. One response of the massive changes brought about by the ships was to industrialize market economy to create utopian communities. This was made for people so they could separate there selfs from the worst aspects of the bold new world. During the Antebellum Revival & Reform the Americans intellectuals, artist, writers, and reformers created a national culture committed to the liberation of…

The Puritans were a very religious driven group of people. The Puritans had very strict rules that they were forced to follow. For that reason research seems to show that the Puritans were very puritanical. Predestination which is the belief in Jesus and taking act in the sacraments would not affect one’s salvation, it is a privilege from God only. God chooses who will be saved and those who receive the grace of god. The Puritans weren’t always a part of their own religion. They used to be a…

God transcends our ability to understand Him the creation and in His nature. Another example is His omnipresence. Considering that the size of our visible universe is (Halpern, 2010) 93 billion ly (light years) in diameter, by faith we have to know that He is present in the whole universe Ps. 139:7. Not only is God present throughout the universe, but his nature is also homogenous in that his veracity is total. God is complete truth in all aspects, no falsehood as whatever God has revealed…

Imagery is included in The Scarlet Letter to insert a more profound message. The application of light and dark imagery is essential to the novel in creating a lively and melancholy moods to establish variance in the characters as well as their lives. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses the societal hypocrisy of Puritans, elements of nature and the importance of the scarlet letter to exude the how sin is an entity of life. Puritans are merciless and use public humiliation as an epitome of the…

WHY CHURCH HISTORY MATTERS CH. 4-6 I like Rea's statement that, "Christians can be very different from one another, across cultures and across centuries. Yet in every culture the Christians hold core beliefs common." I think this speaks of something greater working through man (the Holy Spirit). He even could have went a step further I believe he could have added social economic status and still you would see these same common beliefs. As a Christian I have looked at key moments in my life that…

War is evil and the widespread of its evil can go beyond the battlefield, further than anyone imagines. Going into the lives of the soldiers who survive, tormenting them in ways that make death the easier choice. Yet this evil, is sometimes a necessary one, that can be justified by the balance of good it could bring to all of mankind. Over the years, war has certainly caused an enormous amount of evil in the lives of many people involved, such as the life of Billy Pilgrim. Depicted in the…