Presupposition

From the beginning of time, it has been bred into our lives to incessantly create patterns that help form a basis of reality and how to adapt to that reality. During the earliest times of human existence, we were faced with the burden of overcoming the harsh realities of the world and have strived to create certain ideologies in order to survive. This created a sense of anxiety that was essential to human nature. However, as the world progressed, this anxiety translated from analyzing and…

man being able to grasp and analyze this idea. According to Gerald Bay, being able to study and evaluate being made in the image of God will lead to understanding how the fall of Adam affected the image of God. 2. Philosophical Foundations or Presuppositions To first be able to study and explore what being made in the image of God means, one must first have a concrete understanding that God did in fact create us and that His creation is divine. This is such an important key to understanding…

this way of thinking cause great concern as it denies ultimate reality, at the same time it fails to honor God as the ultimate source of creation. Everyone adheres to a worldview of some kind, although the individual may not be aware. These presuppositions affect the thinking of every person in the world. It logically follows that the way a person thinks affects what a person does. "All worldviews must have logically consistent the teachings cannot be self-contradictory. Empirically…

In 1992, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham addressed the need for greater voice in African American women’s history, naming the limits of white feminist scholarship and theory in its appeal to homogeneous conceptions of “womanhood,” “woman’s culture,” and “patriarchal oppression of women.” Diagnosing how this narrow practice of the field had resulted in an extensive backgrounding of race in the crossings of gender, sexuality, and class, Higginbotham’s critical intervention not only entailed the…

Desired suffering as we know it, but in the form of transformative cultural rites of passage (coined in 1909 by the Anthologist Gennep) appears mysterious in it universal multiplicities. Ritual combat – such as the bloody, skull shattering club-fights of Aché – persists as a dominant commonality and (in a Western functionalist reading of intelligibility) serves as sort of social function among neighboring clans, tribes and bands for releasing pent-up mental cathexes and aggressive energy. In…

In this essay I aim to present both the Cyclical and Recollection arguments proposed by Socrates in the Phaedo, to prove the immortality of the soul. I will discuss the criticisms of the first to demonstrate its fallibility as an account for the soul’s immortality. The weaknesses of the second argument will also be mentioned. In evaluating which of the arguments better proves the soul’s immortality, the responses to the criticisms of the Recollection theory will indicate why it holds as the…

1. In Proposition 227, three language ideologies, dominant language ideology, monoglot language ideology, and standard language ideology are present. Dominant language ideology corresponds to the idea that certain sets of presuppositions about a language might be specific to that certain language from others and are to be above the other languages, mainly used by the people of power (Hauck, Lecture; 11/9/2017). For example, in Proposition 227 it states that, “The English language...is spoken by…

Today, modern cooking conveniences are a crucial part of everyday life. Most americans probably can’t imagine making dinner without a microwave or stove. However, people in early colonial times not only did their baking without all these appliances, but they also grew their own food, instead of being able to run to the grocery store. Cooking tools were rudimentary, and pots and pans were primitive. Cooking was a hot, long affair. However, despite these challenges to prepare the meals, people in…

Beginning with the first accounts in Genesis to the ultimate final prophecies of Revelation, it is documented that God pursues reconciliation of His people to Himself. One way that reconciliation was established, was through the atonement. The word atonement in the Bible is deemed an Old Testament term; appearing only once in the New Testament, which is in the book of Romans 5:11. The meaning of atonement according to Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology is, “that God has…

In chapter one, Wright mentions a profound experience he had with the natural world that eventually helped form his life. I understand that completely. It is one of the reasons I love to sit outside and just watch nature. I can never predict what I will see or what it will mean to me, but I can always guarantee that I will see something stunning. I had the privilege of enjoying our campus pond the other day. I was sitting on a rock watching pieces of dried flower heads of cattails fly off and…