reading the Bible for myself and it helped me understand the creation story in the book of Genesis. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild ...
In tragic cases like Robin Williams’ death, it is easy to fall for simple explanations to make sense of the world, but we have to be better than that. We need to acknowledge the complexity of reality and recognize the limitations of our knowledge. If we fail, we make asses of ourselves...
[3] Greek philosophers before Plato wrote in verse. This must have affected what they said. If you try to write about the nature of the world in verse, it inevitably turns into incantation. Prose lets you be more precise, and more tentative.[4] Philosophy is like math's ne'er-do-...
In the book “Pilgrim’s Progress,” the most influential Christian work after the Bible, we are told the story of the pilgrim Christian. Christian is shown by a man named Evangelist the sinfulness of his own society. He then desires a better life, away from the darkness and hopelessness ...
CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY EDITORIAL NOTE THE incompatibility of the sufferings of good men, the impunity and success of bad men, with the government of the world by a good God, has been a subject of thought among men ever since religion and abstract questions have occupied the thoughts of ...
“[T]he time for lighting is after sunset, because the lighting of the candle is in remembrance of the miracles that God performed for them with the lights. And the day is designated for the governance of the world in its natural course, and the beginning of the night, which comes after...
Bible: Genesis, Job, Daniel, Matthew, John Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Tempest Jefferson: Declaration; Selections There are of course many books to be considered and in any particular program or university, particular excellences cultivated. Th...
1) There is a physical war on spirituality being waged by the global fascist superstate. 2) They could wipe out your neighbourhood and report it as a "fire" to the rest of the world, and the rest of the world would swallow the story completely. ...
and in the society in which he moved, Christianity meant to many who professed it little more than a subject for rivalry and argument among sects and for the combating of heresies.With many of the contemporaries of Boethius, therefore, a new book of comfort sought for in Christian doctrine ...
Pythagoras, who was honoured in antiquity as the first to bring philosophy to the Greek world, illustrates in his own person the characteristics of this early period. Born in Samos, off the Turkish coast, he migrated to Croton on the toe of Italy. He has a claim to be the founder of ...