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- 661: Blaise Pascal
- ... of the River of Seine. Though he was rescued he suffered severe mental disorders from the incident. Soon afterward Blaise underwent another religious experience and on November 23rd of 1654 he pledged his life to Christianity. It was then that Pascal made visits to the Jansenist monastery Port-Royal des Champs which was 30 km south west of Paris. He then began publishing anonymous works on religious topics, eighteen Provincial Letters ...
- 662: Do Christians Sin?
- ... John, I realize that there is some definite contradiction here. With that in mind, I am going to begin with a discussion of the passages that seem to indicate that there is sin inside of Christianity, and then those that disagree with that. Then I will compare and attempt to come to some sort of resolution. The first discussion of sin begins in 1:8-10. Here the author seems to ...
- 663: 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 ...
- 664: Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church
- ... formed. Although the Eastern Rite Church and the Roman Catholic church are very a like they also have many differences. The two churches began to split apart in 313 when Constantine granted freedom to practice Christianity freely. In 330 the church reached a great conflict when Constantine moved the capital from Rome to Constantanople. This later became the Eastern Christendom. Later in 1054 the church reached its breaking point and that ...
- 665: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... the diction of the moral tome, which causes confusion for readers immersed in this tradition. Daniel Hoffman reiterates Allan Tate's position that, aside from his atavistic employment of moral terminology, Poe writes as though "Christianity had never been invented." (Hoffman 171) Poe did offer to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative period, Poe delivers to his readers a satirical ...
- 666: Alexander The Great 3
- ... died he did not appoint a successor and his kingdom fell into a state of anarchy. Alexander's reign spread Hellenistic culture, paved the way for the Greek Empire, and helped prepare the way for Christianity by opening up the Greek world to Oriental influence. Napoleon and his family were forced to flee Marseilles after coming into conflict with Pasquale PAOLI, a Corsican nationalist. Napoleon for his role in the French ...
- 667: Geography Reading Project (timeline)
- ... thought to be different and different was not a good thing back then. The religion was almost 100% Christian because no other religions were introduced for a long time there were not any variations of Christianity for a long time as well. The language back then was old English basically what our language was based on. The language back then was more slurred and harder to understand and learn that s ...
- 668: The House on Mango Street, The Benedictine Rule
- ... her environment, and wants to achieve greater than her environment will let her. The Rule of St. Benedict in English tells how the life of a Benedictine should be lived and the ideas behind Benedictine Christianity. These two books share a narrative writing style that appeals to the reader on a personal level. The reader is drawn to read deeper into these books due to the personal presentation of information. This ...
- 669: Aum Shinkyria
- There are, literally, thousands of cults in existence throughout the world today. From Christianity and other religious spin-offs to entirely new religions, they are everywhere. And they all have one common goal: a utopia for all of it s members. A place where the people who are devoted ...
- 670: T.S. Eliot
- ... he was one of the last highly public figures in literature to be far more concerned with the overall ideal of politics, and not the details at hand. Eliot was a devout Christian and considered Christianity the fabric holding western society together. For him, the idea of a western society without a fundamental belief in a Supreme Being and unbreakable morals was simply unacceptable. He said, "I do not believe that ...
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