1. existence and nature of god
"One of the most universal cravings of our time is a hunger for compelling and creative leadership" - Mc Gregor Traditionally leaders have been defined as those who hold power, allowing presidents, prime ministers and military generals, regardless of their accomplishments to be considered leaders. ... Machiavelli defines good qualities as "faithful, humane, honest, and religious"(Machaivelli p.27). ... Those who see and hear him should think him all compassion, all faith, all integrity, all humanness all religion. ... "the deepest side of his nature is to be found in hid infinite tendernes...
He further defines God's sovereign will as "a reference to the fact that God's choices and decisions are in no way constrained by factors outside himself; also, God's right to choose without being answerable to anyone or anything outside himself" (p. 157, emphasis mine). ... Perhaps, depending on how one defines freedom. ... According to Sproul Arminians define free will as the ability to make choices without any prior prejudice, inclination, or disposition (Sproul, 1986, p. 51). ...
To approach any text we must first have some understanding of what it is we hope to take away from it. In approaching a religious text this understanding becomes even more muddled due to the vast complexities and differences that exist between religion and contemporary thought. To accurately approach biblical thoughts we, as moderns, must learn to "unthink many thoughts" resulting from our present alienation of religion and spirituality. God in Search of Man, a text written almost half a century ago by Abraham Joshua Heschel, is the subject of our present inquiry. This text will, no doubt,...
Satan: The Unlikely Hero The following references to Paradise Lost' means Book 1 only. In 1656 John Milton endeavoured to write the first English epic. The result was Paradise Lost'. His awe-inspiring poem tells the indescribable story of humanity's first disobedience', the original sin'. ...
Furthermore, Himmelfarb observes that, "Public officials in particular shy away from the word immoral, lest they be accused of racism, sexism, elitism, or simply a lack of compassion- (Himmelfarb 8). ... The word family, as defined in Webster's New World College Dictionary, means a social unit consisting of parents and the children they rear. ...