Predestination

believing in the extreme form of Calvinist predestination specifically as “No one could help [the Calvinist]. No priest…No sacraments…No Church… [and] Finally, even no God. For even Christ died for the elect” (61). If the Calvinist personally felt isolated from all these factors (one’s neighbors, one’s spiritual leaders, one’s God) is that person a member of the collective consciousness? It is no surprise to me that Weber concluded that this form of predestination with its hierarchy of…

the endless waves of fate’s ripples. The play’s main plot is a clever paradox, brought to creation by Oedipus’ wishes to prove the oracle’s predictions wrong. Assuming fate is a reality, the concept of predestination comes into play. Sophocles explores the fine line between fate and predestination quite expansively, as Apollo delivers onto Laius the prophecy of his own patricide, himself attempting to curb his fate, but ultimately failing. This brings to question if Oedipus was fated into his…

Emerson finds that goodness and evil are instantly rewarded or punished in the enlargement or diminishment of the man who practices them. Emerson does not see value in external rewards or punishments. Instead of believing in the Puritan concept of predestination, Emerson understands that the human soul can change courses and correct itself from evil (since evil is not absolute) therefore, the soul can determine its own fate. The theories of Ralph Waldo Emerson, contradict key Puritian…

reality of various Huxley predictions is very real. Huxley satirizes the use of genetic engineering by showing how various aspects of it in the New World State have led to inequality in social castes, dysfunctions in intelligence, and unwanted predestination. There are four different castes in Huxley’s Brave New World, and all of them are very different. “The shorter the oxygen.”(14). This references the lower caste, The Epsilons. The Epsilons were given less oxygen when they were infants which…

like King Richard II in Shakespeare’s play in which rulers or anyone of social status was given that status by divinity through birthright. Pretty much the rich were staying rich and the poor were staying poor, with the assumption that this was predestination and divine right that caused a huge monopoly…

Ethan Frome, a 1911 novel by Edith Wharton is a novel featuring uniquely American characters. The novel itself begins and ends in the present, that is the time that the book was published, but the bulk is told in flashback. The flashbacks serve to explain how Ethan has ended up as he has and filling in the back story, which includes no shortage of pain and suffering to the point that it is beyond any possible justification. The book itself is also moral in many respects and while these can be…

The Quakers religion rejected predestination and original sin unlike the Puritans religion. Instead the Quakers believed that all people had divinity and were not born with it but learned to grow it and all humans could obtain salvation. In contrast with the Puritan religion the Quakers…

teaching of subjugating of guilt of been wrong prevent a sinner from sin over again?. The answer is no. Luther is wrong on this idea as well, without providing a system to educate the sinner how to sin no more, and to make them realized is must be some kind of consequences for every sin. I think his idea would kill human conscience because it makes it easy for them to put no effort in affording sin. Luther believed that human did not have any sort of unique power whatsoever to overcome the…

solely in social order and made that very clear by limiting the individual freedom of their followers. The Puritans read the Bible in a religious or continuous manner and interpreted every word literally. They believed in Calvinism, or predestination. Under predestination, it says that one is predetermined as saved or damned. Though the people of Salem,Massachusetts aimed to venture out to individual freedom, they remained intertwined in the bearings of social order. The Puritans, believe it or…

Influenced by the rise of romantic nationalism, the Grimm brothers published a collection of German fairy tales in the 1812 as an effort to preserve German folk tradition. Hidden within the text of each fairy tales were attitudes toward society. This included religion, which was a fundamental aspect of German culture. The Catholic Church gained power through their large membership throughout Germany and Europe. It became so powerful that the Catholic clergy were wealthy and corrupt. Eventually,…