It was for them proof that God had chosen the United States to grow and flourish. Yet in a story as old as ancient Rome’s transformation from republic to empire, not all Americans, like the doubters of Rome, found it encouraging. Those dissenters saw rapid expansion as contrary to the ...
On the other hand, it can hold that human existence, posing itself as a problem, projects itself with absolute freedom, creating itself by itself, thus assuming to itself the function of God. As such, existentialism presents itself as a radical atheism. Or it may insist on the finitude of...
of God, through which history is to end and be fulfilled. In Judaism and Christianity the unique occurrence of a historical event serves as a basis for belief in a long-desired future. A historically occurringnovumoffers hope for a new existence that will be more than the reproduction of ...
Virtually every human society has some form ofmythto explain the origin of morality. In the Louvre in Paris there is a black Babylonian column with a relief showing the sungodShamash presenting the code of laws toHammurabi(died c. 1750bce), known as theCode of Hammurabi. TheHebrew Bible(O...