It is widely regarded that society can be judged by the way it treats its women, and the Ancient Israelites are no exception. The book of Exodus reveals to historians and scholars the economic and social roles of women in Hebrew society. Exodus is split into two sections: narrative of the Israelites escape from Egypt and the covenant traditions. Though Exodus is primarily focused on the narrative side, the societal and cultural restrictions placed upon women are revealed all throughout. Exodus…
Sacramental character, or the indelible ontological mark rendered by the Holy Spirit on the soul of the ordained empowering them to act in the person of Jesus on behalf of the Church (AVP), is not a universally recognized Christian concept. As the Christian church began to shift from a communal entity where the whole community was expected to participate in worship and ministry by making use of their God-given charisms, to a hierarchical institution where ministry and leadership was tied…
not just wake up like an animal or person, but the quote allows to listener to visualize a brain being “woken up” such as Streep’s did. Quote - “Emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion.” Quotes are typically from inspiring sources and are used to support a speaker's intentions. Streep used this quote from Carl Jung to explain the importance of emotions and empathy because it is necessary for…
The institution of the Christion Church is composed of different experiences and perspectives. These experiences and perspectives create life within the Church—intimately interlocking the Christ Movement into the fabric of humanity. The elements of experience and perspective allow for humanity to constantly engage Christ in ways that are relevant. Experience and perspective make Christ eternal. It is in every age through all people that the teachings of Christ are found a new. One of the most…
Othello in how he is a violent person who only sees justice. Heilman suggests that Othello placed himself on a pinnacle of constant assurance and by doing so, Othello has blinded himself to see the true nature of himself and thoughts. Arguing that the priestly role is worked out alongside the judicial role, also making the judge out as a killer, Heilman explains that he judge would also become the prosecutor. By merging incompatible roles, one can see Othello’s self-deception and how he does not…
In the 1860s, there was neither a doctor nor even nurse that had yet come up or establishes biology and was semi dumb of the causes and reasons of such diseases in the 1860s. In the Civil War doctors went too medical school for only about two or four years more of school. Now in the Civil War time period medical improvements were so little, they practically wasn’t there at all, and that goes the same for doctors. The medicine time in the 1860s was the new start of the equipment that we use today…
From the crumbling walls of the ancient authority of Rome, two new powers, the Church and western leaders, established their hold on the medieval world. Ushering in an age of population boom, business, and an interest in antiquity, the Church and fledgling powers of the west struggled to find their footing in society. Some cities, such as Rome, survived the change by adapting, and others faded into nothing more than a memory. Cities, empires, and the Church all played a pivotal roles in the…
organized religions, Hume notes that new sects were “obliged to from a system of speculative opinion; to divide their articles of faith” (Hume, pgs. 38-39). In the essay, “Of Superstitions and Enthusiam”, Hume notes that “Superstition is favorably to priestly power, and enthusiasm not less or rather more contrary to it, than sound reason and philosophy” (Hume, pg. 47). Superstition, according to Hume, paints man in such vile “colors” that man feels unworthy and has recourse against those who…
Conformity is when a person develops behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards. Solomon Asch conducted an experiment in 1950 were they placed one person in a room full of actors, a card with three lines on it would be shown to everyone in the room and they had to pick which line was the longest. The actors would purposely choose the wrong line hoping to see if the subject would go along with the group or make the correct choice. Asch’s conformity experiment was meant…
In Essay I of Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad’, Nietzsche attempts to study the origin of contemporary morality by examining the conditions and circumstances by which the values of morals have emerged. This investigation of his, lead him to conclude that the morals that exist in us now, are not inherent in us, but were caused by a “slave revolt” in morality through the feeling of ressentiment. In this essay, I will be discussing what ressentiment is, why and…