For Florence, God serves as a coping mechanism as she attempts to deal with her sins, the demons of her past, and the adversity she continues to face and experience in her day-to-day life through prayer. ... However, poor health, life and its hardships, and past sins finally catch up with her and she feels as if she urgently needs to speak with God who will allow her, through prayer, to repent her sins and face her innermost fears. ... Florence wants God to cure her of her illness, but, more importantly, she wants God to forgive all of her sins and she wants him to know that she i...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Augustine's Confessions is a personal recollection of his ascent from a life of sin and emptiness to one of fulfillment and higher understanding. He started his quest (from where we entered his voyage) rejecting God, but as his books are titled Confessions, Augustine begins to confess his sins and flaws to God in order to understand a deeper meaning of life. ... From this statement it is apparent that Augustine's luster for the Manichean doctrine had begun to diminish because Augustine found the pathologies of past philosophers to be more probable than current ones. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first major incident in which he turns his back on Catholicism can be seen with the scene of the prostitute, sinning with "another of his kind " and exulting "with her in sin " [Joyce: pg. 6]. This moment in chapter two is then immediately followed by an instance of self-realization in chapter three in which Stephen repents and returns to the orthodoxy of the church: "The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin God's turn had come. Like a beast in its lair his soul had laid down in his own filth but the...

• Word Count: 2014
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Catechesis meets an unbeliever at the font and accompanies him as the saint through his life's journey; being a vehicle for the means of Grace, leading to repentance and confession of sins. ... Surely Augustine stands out as the greatest catechist in the history of Christendom, but the value of his work belongs to the past. ... The doctrine taken from the Scriptures is to be confessed by the Church in the past, in the present, and in the future. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Located at the foot of the western side of the Temple Mount and built upon the foundations of Solomon's First Temple and the current remains of the Second Temple, this sacred wall also reminds Jews of their glorious past and a symbol of hope for the future. ... (Oakes, 2014) Jerusalem is holy to Christians because of its Jewish past, interpreted as a prefiguration of Christian beliefs (Maraval, 2003) and is central to the events of the New Testament. and according to tradition, many events in Jesus' childhood and adulthood took place in Jerusalem. ...

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For the past one hundred - twelve years, these three attributes have served a distinguished and outstanding student population. ... The Reformed world view affirms the Biblical truths that creation is the work of God, that our world has fallen into sin, and that redemption is possible only through the gracious work of Christ. ...

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The "separation between church and state" has been an ongoing debate for a long time in American history. What is meant by this, is that government should stay out of the church's business. Religion has been a part of America for some time now and continues to be now. The first amendment, also know...

• Word Count: 2044
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate