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5 Results for Common Sense

1. Plato's Main Ideas on Religion

As humans we also seek answers; however the common principle underpinning all religion is the human instinctive intension to seek and possess the ability to influence our fortune on this world and the next. ... A common format of Plato's work was to propose a dilemma and discuss the issue from characterised viewpoints. ... He begins by debating the meaning of words, a common technique acquired from Socrates. ... "Plato reveals that there is a sense in which the inquirer both knows and doesn't know what he is seeking.... He maintained we cannot gain knowledge of absolute realiti...

  • Word Count: 2979
  • Approx Pages: 12
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. The Concept of God by Medieval Thinkers

Introduction Perhaps it would be appropriate to ask oneself on how much do we know God. What is God for us? Who is God for us? What is the role of God to us? By answering these questions we may be able to distinguish God whether He is an ingredient or a condiment. ...

  • Word Count: 4208
  • Approx Pages: 17
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Lord, I Believe - The Concept of Faith

Faith gives a person the ability to look at life with a different lens. Faith is seeing situations as they truly are and, based on experience or a spiritual witness, expanding that view to know that there are possibilities beyond the scope of the current situation. Faith does not only dwell in the r...

  • Word Count: 3373
  • Approx Pages: 13
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Sovereignty of God and Free Will of Man

Understanding the Christian Doctrines of Divine Sovereignty, Predestination, And Free Will for Counseling "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." (John 3:16, NRSV) "But to all who did receive him, ...

  • Word Count: 5514
  • Approx Pages: 22
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

5. Santeria

CUBAN SANTERIA Santeria, which literally means, way of the saints', originated in Cuba. Santeria is considered an Afro-Cuban religion. It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with them their Yoruba religious traditions (Nunez: 3). Slave owners forced them to give up their beliefs and convert to Christianity. ...

  • Word Count: 8386
  • Approx Pages: 34
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School
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