Through the years, and what can now be seen in our pledge of allegiance, as well as our currency, the phrases "one nation, under God" as well as "In God We Trust," respectively are examples that our nation was founded on some sort of belief in God. ... In his essay Proslogion, St. ... But first, just as our textbook provided written works of philosophers who believed in the existence of God, there were also other philosophers who wrote on the contrary, God doesn't exist: One prime example was a reading entitled "The Problem of Evil" by David Hume. ...

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Introduction Russian author, essayist and philosopher, Leo Tolstoy enriched the literature; specifically the Russian literature heritage with enormous astounding genius literary works. The inconstancy of Tolstoy's life has left a great impact on his style of writing; approximately most of his works ...

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In this example, the main theme of religion is the question of how the sweet and gentle God of Innocence, created or allowed the creation of the miseries that abound in Experience. ... In today's world the best examples of this are the terrorist attacks, rapes, and etcetera. ... Hagstrum in his essay "On Innocence and Experience" writes, "The Urizen of Experience is not primarily the fallen Lucifer, the mythic figure of Blake's prophecy, but a social creature, a supporter of repressive institutions". ...

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In this essay I will try to look at one of his poems, The Lamb which a consider to be of great significance from different aspects: firstly I will try to place it in the context of innocence based on the collection of songs, then try to explore the religious hints in the poem and finally, since the poems in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience come in pairs, I cannot avoid bringing the two poems in comparison. ... It appears in divers forms (ex. happiness, merry, laughing) in the vast majority of poems (just to mention some of them see for example Infant Joy, Laughing song, Nur...

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I will cite several examples of this. ... He states for example that "when Christian theologians, including Wesley, have considered carefully the meaning of divine omnipresence, it has been difficult for them to avoid the conclusion that God truly is the 'place' where the universe is happening, and thus also that the universe is in some sense the embodying of God. ... In response to Lodahl, see my discussion in my essay where I suggest that Lodahl's perspective about God's transcendence is consistent with Hartshorne's notions of God as the integrated individual...

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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,...

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