Religious studies

or substantiate, religious experiences as an argument from religious experience. Two examples are Swinburne’s Principle of Credulity, and Alston’s concept of doxastic practice. Richard Swinburne holds that if it seems to a subject something to be x on the basis of the subject’s experience it is probably the case that x is (Swinburne, 2004). According to Swinburne, it is reasonable to assume that the world is the way it is experienced and unless we have reason to doubt a religious experience then…

Evil is well hidden within every human’s genetic make-up since birth; this inherent trait is revealed under certain circumstances regardless of age, class or occupation. William Golding exhibits this ideology in the novel, Lord of the Flies, using the characters and setting as a sample of the real world. Within the first few chapters of the novel, Golding instills a barbaric nature in a select few of the characters; near the end of the novel, all of the characters demonstrate this trait.…

Essentially it seems that the Wesleyan understanding of holiness encourages ecumenicalism: promoting the cooperation and understanding between different religious denominations to foster Christian unity. Reason is an important part of scripture validity. Reason aids in understanding, various interpretations of the bible would fall here. While reason and interpretation should not be the sole source of one’s…

Scriptural Intervention Summary Many Christian counselors have difficulty establishing the fine line of appropriateness when it comes to choosing various interventions and when to apply them to their respective clients. Garzon addresses these challenges in his article, "Interventions that Apply Scripture in Psychotherapy" (2005). Using well-cited scriptural basis for his assertions, Garzon addresses a number of challenges faced by Christian therapists. An underlying tone of the article is for…

The quotes do represent a deep, inherent, widespread, general and persistent sexism in religions even though the quotes come from holy books and famous theologians. For example, the quote from the Talmud, the Jewish holy book, says “The words of The Bible should be burned rather than taught to women.”. That quote displays that they believe that women are less than men. It is like they believe that women don’t have the willpower or the authority to learn or to be taught the words of the Bible.…

The Hughes Brothers imprint their religious point of view in their 2010 American post-apocalyptic film, “The Book of Eli”. In this dramatic tale Denzel Washington stars as Eli, a mysterious wanderer that carries the world’s only remaining copy of King James’s Bible. He ventures 30 years across a desolated post-apocalyptic landscape in the attempt of finding a safe haven for this sacred book. Determined to complete his mission, Eli’s quote “We walk by faith, not by sight” from the Bible conveys…

Marvell represents a typical white man, a man who desires flesh and love. His need for sexual satisfaction is unavoidable. Marvell takes his sexual eagerness and puppeteers the narrator. Marvell sets up the poem to illustrate sailors escaping religious persecution and are led safe to shore. He does this in order to mask his underlying sexual desires but also proclaim his faith to…

1. Moses asked the Lord, "Suppose everyone refuses to listen to my message, and no one believes that you really appeared to me?" Contemporary English Version 2. Throughout the different variations of the passage Psalms 23:4, the valley is described in five different ways. The differences in scripture are as follows. Contemporary English version: I may walk through the valley as dark as death, King James Version: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, New Living…

I do not know a religious text that tells a story like this, but I wish that I did. In the story, the sage Gautama finds a baby elephant and must raise it. In return, he and the elephant become the closest of friends. Indra, leader of devas, contests their relationship and…

In this essay, I would like to relate Augustine’s and Egeria’s idea of memory with the use of scripture to the question of individuality. For Augustine, reflection of will and understanding Scriptures are essential in shaping one’s individuality; as for Egeria, it is the act of reading and writing to connect Scripture to the physical world. By defining individuality as the unique journey of the individual, Scriptures provide a central point of conversion to direct one’s memory toward his or her…