Repentance

The film opens with a war sequence, in which a young Russian sailor is forced by a Nazi officer to shoot the skipper of his barge in exchange for his own life. Then the action moves to 1974, to the remote Orthodox monastery in the same area where the war episode happened. The former young sailor, now Father Anatolii, lives here as a monk. Apparently known as a holy man, he is visited by many people seeking spiritual and medical help. Father Anatolii deals with many different individuals…

All people hold something sacred in their hearts. If they were to lose this special something, whether a person, animal, or object, they would be completely devastated. Some people can even feel as though they have lost their sense of purpose. These things provide strength, but almost always, their owners tend to grow out of them. Pearl becomes the special something to her parents, Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Born out of wedlock, Pearl is…

Scot Mcknight speaks about how Western evangelicals have lost touch with the gospel. He says we’ve reduced the gospel to making a decision for Christ. Mcknight argues that it’s been reduced to a 4 point presentation that’s a surefire way to salvation. Telling people that “God loves them and has a wonderful plan for their life” is one of the most dangerous things you can tell someone. When you assure someone that they’re in God’s love when in reality they are an enemy of God and stand under his…

The nineteenth century Romantic Movement was viewed as a challenge to the Rationalism Movement of the Enlightenment period. Throughout the nineteenth century, Romanticism is seen through the ideas of philosophers, through artists and their works, and through poems and novels of the era. The characteristics of Romanticism include a power of nature and the supernatural world, the emphasis on emotion and intuition, the embracing of the value of the individual, as well as the rejection of the…

John the Baptist was the son of Zechariah, the priest, and his wife, Elizabeth. To begin with, Zechariah and Elizabeth were both rather old to even consider the possibility of conceiving a child. With this in mind, Zechariah could not believe what the angel Gabriel told him while he was doing priestly services in the Holy Place at Jerusalem. The angel said, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.”…

Justice is the word that keeps death penalty at its cue, wandering for a truth and what true justice can bring; right for the wrong and right for the right. Are the government officials the ones with the right solutions? Are we the one’s to validate true justice? I think not and I believe you know this already. Death penalty does not constitute a cruel or unusual punishment, actually it serves what some look as justice; the satisfaction of one’s need to abate death or harm that was imposed by…

Dante, Christianity, and Modern Psychology Dante, while writing about Hell, is wrestling with inner struggles that are testing him psychologically. He writes from the standpoint of an exiled Guelph who cannot return to his home in Florence by the consequence of execution. In Dante’s Inferno, his characters featured in Hell are among a community of which he is familiar in mind and by association. Here I examine Dante’s reasoning behind crime and punishment, in association with the behaviors…

and speak as with the voice of thunder, we should write and cry to the nation, Repent, Break Every Yoke, let the Oppressed Go Free for Herein alone is deliverance and safety!” Judgment, here imaged as a thunderstorm, occasions the possibility of repentance and the deliverance of the…

Macbeth In the play macbeth by william shakespeare, the motifs that closely associated with protagonist is the pattern of blood. the developed used blood to symbolize disorder,evil and chaos it serves as an image that provokes Macbeth to reflect upon his deeds, how blood was used to rise to power and tragic downfall. In the beginning of the play macbeth and the image of blood was used to represent a nobleman Honest and loyal man. Macbeth was considered brave by all the people he was…

production takes place within prisons, creating the necessary goods for partnered companies who invest in the prison. Meanwhile, the prisoners themselves gain nothing of monetary value. In America, a “criminal owes all his labor to society” as a form of repentance (Source C). In the system of labor, only the prison and companies stand to gain. This one-sided business offers no experience or motivation to prisoners. The true element of rehabilitation are the punishments for failing to follow the…