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- 191: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... never been able to write any of his autobiographies which live on even today as important accounts of slavery. Also, without knowledge, Frederick Douglass would not have become an American legend like he is today. Christianity also played an important role in Frederick Douglass's life, as well as his autobiography. Douglass had conflicting feelings about slavery and Christianity as seen in Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Frederick Douglass believed in God and was a Christian himself. He saw the Christianity of his white masters to be a crude mockery of the real thing. At first, Douglass believed that a master who found religion became more humane. When he actually witnessed his master after he ...
- 192: John Locke 3
- ... also stressed his concern for discovering truth was put truth ahead of any desire for personal fame or reputation. Locke's views concerning religion are expressed mostly in the essay and in the Reasonableness of Christianity which was published in 1695. Lock once said, "religious belief that rests merely on authority has an uncertain foundation." This means that when a religion gives you orders to do something and you can't ... tries to demonstrate this, by saying, "though God has given us no innate ideas of himself." Locke takes Gods existence to be "the most obvious truth reason discovers." But scholars agree that Locks reasonableness of Christianity represents an idea to the necessity of religion as a guide for the common people. Locke reduces Christianity to a very simple reasonable religion. The fundamentals of this idea are that people believe in Jesus Christ the Messiah, and that they live by the Christian codes based on God's revelation. Locke ...
- 193: New Hreligion And Medieval Lit
- ... as free as modern drama is. A play in the Middle Ages usually took the form of either a mystery or morality play. The mystery plays, such as The Second Shepherds' Play, sought to make Christianity "more real to the unlearned by dramatizing significant events in biblical history and showing what those events meant in terms of human experience" (Norton, 363). The morality plays, such as Everyman, differed somewhat from the mysteries. Morality plays used allegory "to dramatize the moral struggle Christianity envisions as present in every individual" (Norton, 363). Both plays deal with a religious subject matter, which was a common subject for any writing in the Middle Ages. Both plays also reveal some characteristic beliefs ... be criticized for such little care taken in researching a play's subject matter. The purpose of The Second Shepherds' Play was not to be historically accurate. If the play was really written to "make Christianity more real to the unlearned" the people watching it would not have known the difference anyway, and the playwright would have wanted to make his point in a way that his audience could have ...
- 194: A Voice From The South
- ... intervenes, Americans must stand ready and be prepared to go to battle with racism. She argues that racism is un-Christian in practice although it may be justified by certain ideologies. The only measure of Christianity however, is the activities people engage in, not their prayers, hymns, or Sunday services. This approach to Christianity differs from previous writers in this course (although it bears some resemblance to Douglass) because Cooper relies less on biblical passage to prove her point than she does on history, logic, and Christianity as exemplified by practice. This lack of scripture may weaken her argument for some critics but it is consistent with what she is arguing. I find her call for Americans to stand ready in ...
- 195: The Epic Poem Of Beowulf Blend
- ... time, portraying Christian morality through his characters. The epic of Beowulf reflects both the Christian world and the pagan world. Much like the more familiar stories of King Arthur, Beowulf depicts a world in which Christianity and paganism merge. The mark of Cain should be familiar to anyone that has any knowledge of Judaism, Islam, or Christianity. This "Christian" symbol is an important one in the epic of Beowulf. Not only does the fact of Grendel having the mark of Cain symbolize that he is inherently evil because of his family line ... which states, "To any fighting-man, death is better than a life of dishonour." He wanted to be remembered with honor and dignity after he was dead. At the time of the writing of Beowulf, Christianity had already established itself as the main religion of the area, but there was still a strong influence from paganism. Beowulf is, therefore, not only the story of a hero, and his adventures, but ...
- 196: Transcendentalism
- ... among the young questing minds because of its urge for change and reform. Transcendentalism was a liberal branch of Unitarianism. Unitarians preached stability, harmony, rational thought, progressive morality, classical learning, and other hallmarks of Enlightenment Christianity. The founders of transcendentalism were all Harvard-educated Unitarians. Both Unitarians and transcendentalists considered the emotions to be the drive to translate ethical knowledge, but deplored the excessive emotionalism of the Revivalism. Unitarianism stressed the ... ability to discern what constituted ethical conduct. William Ellery Channing, a Unitarian who held much of the Transcendentalist ideas and whom the transcendentalists considered to be the father of the movement, said in the "Unitarian Christianity" sermon in 1819: "Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its meaning is to be sought in the ... term route to a righteous society is individual moral reform. According to correspondence, self-reform would result in a more global change. The social activism was mostly religious in nature. Ripley said, "The purpose of Christianity β¦ is to redeem society as well as individual from sin." The areas in which transcendental reformers took part were educational reform, prison reform, temperance to other ethnic groups, feminism, poverty relief, and abolitionism. ...
- 197: Paganism, Say Hello To Christi
- ... time, portraying Christian morality through his characters. The epic of Beowulf reflects both the Christian world and the pagan world. Much like the more familiar stories of King Arthur, Beowulf depicts a world in which Christianity and paganism merge. The mark of Cain should be familiar to anyone that has any knowledge of Judaism, Islam, or Christianity. This "Christian" symbol is an important one in the epic of Beowulf. Not only does the fact of Grendel having the mark of Cain symbolize that he is inherently evil because of his family line ... which states, "To any fighting-man, death is better than a life of dishonour." He wanted to be remembered with honor and dignity after he was dead. At the time of the writing of Beowulf, Christianity had already established itself as the main religion of the area, but there was still a strong influence from paganism. Beowulf is, therefore, not only the story of a hero, and his adventures, but ...
- 198: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... In the late 5th century the Frankish chieftain Clovis defeated the Romans, and he established a kingdom that included most of Gaul and southwestern Germany. He converted his subjects, believers in a heretical offshoot of Christianity known as Arianism, to orthodox Christianity. Carolingian Germany Clovis's work was carried on in the 8th century by Charlemagne, who fought the Slavs south of the Danube, annexed southern Germany, and ferociously subdued and converted the pagan Saxons in the northwest. As champion of Christianity and supporter of the papacy against the restive people of Rome, Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in Rome in 800. This milestone event revived the Roman imperial tradition ...
- 199: Same-sex Marriage
- ... who praise DOMA believe that it keeps children from growing up and thinking that being homosexual is okay. They believe that gay people are sacrilegious, and to allow them to marry would condone this behavior(Christianity Today, 1997). In Article Four, Section One of the Constitution the Full Faith and Credit Clause states: Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings ... Kramer, Larry.1997 "Same-sex marriage, conflict of laws, and the unconstitutional public policy exception" Yale Law Journal 106(May): 1965-2008 7. Lawton, Kim A. 1997"State Lawmakers Scramble to Ban Same-Sex Marriages" Christianity Today 2(Feb) 84-86 8. Love and the Law. "Contrasting Legal Situations: Marriages & Committed, Loving, Same Sex Relationships" URL: (July 14, 1998) 9. Marshall, Elliot. 1995. "NIH's "gay gene" study questioned." Science 268 ...
- 200: Islam More Than A Religion
- ... mail: waldino20@hotmail.com Islam More Than A Religion Despite its huge following around the world and the growing Muslim communities in the United States, Islam is foreign to most Americans who are familiar with Christianity or Judaism. Because most Americans know little or nothing about Islam, they have many misconceptions about Muslim beliefs and rituals. The negative image many people in the United States and Europe have of Islam and ... judged Islam without making an effort to consider this religious tradition on its own terms, without bothering to become acquainted with its teaching and the ways in which Muslims practice their faith. Like Judaism and Christianity, Islam is a monotheistic religion, based on the belief in one God.. This religion was proclaimed by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia, in the 7th century A.D. The term Islam virtually means surrender. Within ...
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