1. Male-Chauvinist Religion
By the time her vision is over, Harbour Winn notes, "Ruby ultimately accepts her spiritual lameness and converges rather than collides with the grace offered in her moment of epiphany" (23). ... American Literature 55:1 (March 1983). ... In The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. ... Rpt. in The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. ...
Charles Darwin was very set in his creationist ideas however and only became convinced of the opposite by his own notes. ... His works were difficult and obscure for his readers but eventually found his niche with theatrical literature. ... When she died, he became successful but still kept most of his literature in a style that the reader would have to work to understand. ...
We find in the social Christian literature of the recent years frequent reference to "social evil" and "sinful structures," "but not to "social conversion." ... Nurturing Our Vision and Spirituality "For many of us," notes the Moderator of the United Church of Canada, "the issue is a spiritual one. ...
Elwell notes therefore that "the gospel is the joyous proclamation of God's redemptive activity in Christ Jesus on behalf of man enslaved by sin... Barclay notes that (1) originally, it meant "the reward given to a messenger for bringing good tidings." ... Interestingly, Thayer notes that from the Hebrew it often meant the fee given to a teacher.# It is a word that was primarily secular yet began to carry some religious meaning by the first century AD. ... Second, it appears in Isaiah 40:5; 52:7 to refer to the glad tidings of the coming of God's Anointed One to His people.# Outs...
The Italian priests first passed through Nepal on 1662A.D on their route to Tibet. The Roman Catholic Church in 1703, the Capuchin priests were asked to go back and evangelize in Tibet, India and Nepal. The Newar community, indigenous group of Kathmandu valley, was the prime target of these mission...
Some of the most fascinating stories to occur throughout British literature surround the fictional times of King Arthur and his court in Camelot. The story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight follows suit. This Arthurian legend is meant to be an initiation story. Throughout the course of the tale, a ...
One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. There are many ways it might be understood, of course, and perhaps more than one is coherent and even from a Christian point o...