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- 591: E. M. Forster
- ... use of the same character traits is most likely part of the fact that all of Forster's themes seem to remain constant. "Forster's three major themes are: salvation through love, deficiency of traditional Christianity, and repressiveness of English culture." (Marowski, 130). This overuse of these themes is the major criticism of Forster. His story line had quiet wit, a lyrical streak, and imaginative sympathy. His works were once criticized ...
- 592: History of Catholicism
- ... to procure a country through a deception that rode on the heels of religion and wore a mask of self-imagined pity. But, the burden was bore and successfully so. The Americas now belonged to Christianity and the Acumen of Catholicism weighed heavily in the mix. The religious triamuerate of Protestant-Catholic-Jew in North American offers considerable prestige and social importance. Identification with Catholicism generally benefited the Latino Community by ...
- 593: Sin Is Ignorance - Socratic De
- ... with the Socratic definition is that it leaves undetermined how ignorance itself is to be more precisely understood, the question of its origin, ect. That is to say. even if sin be ignorance(or what Christianity would perhaps prefer to call stupidity), which in one sense cannot be denied we have to ask, is this an original ignorance, it is always the case that one has not known and hitherto could ...
- 594: England
- ... and 40 inches on the west. There is a high humidity there and fog is common. The area around this country is smaller than the state of Alabama. The English started there own faction of Christianity called the Church of England. But also there is a large group of Baptists and Lutherans. Also with the Asian Commonwealth Immigrants coming in there is some Muslim and Buddhism. About 2% of the people ...
- 595: Emily Dickinson
- ... attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations. She maintained ...
- 596: A Good Man Is Hard To Find Ana
- ... was happening to the times. Evidence of society's "demise" is woven into the story, and presented through an interesting generation gap between the grandmother and her family. The grandmother is representative of devoutness and Christianity which O'Connor apparently believed to be more prevalent in the "glamorous" Old South. Attention to prim detail separated the grandmother from the rest of her family who seemed to be living in a different ...
- 597: Who is the Christ of First Corinthians?
- ... driving force behind the Ten Commandments. Love thy neighbor is the most important commandment. If you have love, you will not be inclined to steal, kill or hurt others. Love is a driving force throughout Christianity. Jesus died on the cross for us because he had such love for humanity. Never did he raise a hand in anger or wrong another. Paul says that love is patient, kind, and never fails ...
- 598: The Reformation of European Religion
- ... Renaissance, but more because of the personal conviction of a apprehensive monk. At the age of 24, John Calvin, a Frenchman born Jean Cauvin, experienced a sudden conversion; a fresh insight into the meaning of Christianity. He joined forces with the religious revolutionaries of whom the best known was then Luther. His book, Institutes of the Christian Religion, appealed to human reason itself. If dissatisfied with the Roman church, people of ...
- 599: Buddhism
- ... began in southern or northwestern India. However, they have narrowed the date to in between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD. Beliefs in a godlike Buddha continued well past the era of Christianity and came together in the Mahayana doctrine of threefold nature. Buddhism spread throughout Asia after the two divisions came about. King Asoka's children, Mahinda and Sanghamitta, are responsible for the Buddhist conversion of Sri ...
- 600: John Savage Desires What Makes
- ... training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half you morality about in a bottle. (pg. 217) Soma is Christianity in pill form, as Mustapha Mond puts it. The users mind is cleared of hate, and replaced with love, harmony, and happiness. Instead of beating himself when he sins, he can take a gramme ...
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