Essays on Miracles

Many historical recordings document the lives of people who have lived the life that our greatest example, Jesus Christ, spoke that a Christian should live. Many of these people have been leaders. Some have shown themselves not full of avarice, or greed, in keeping with Christ’s rebuke from the scriptures of Luke, and have shown no interest in making the house of God a “den of thieves” (Biblegateway, 2016). The Apostle Paul is a great example of a Christian who happened to be a leader, although he never held a particular office in the Christian Church building as ...

According to Christopher Bader, Joe Baker and Frederick Carson Mencken in Paranormal America: Ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts, and other curiosities in religion and culture (2011) research shows that “more than 2/3 of Americans have paranormal beliefs with this being manifested in their penchant for movies with paranormal themes. This statistic is not alarming since evidently the paranormal and the supernatural have been a part of human culture since the beginning of time. In fact, in most religions paranormal experiences are either commonplace, or show up without alarm to the persons practicing that particular religion. While persons without ...

Jesus in Writings and Paintings.

Jesus as an Inspirational Figure in the Renaissance Christianity and Jesus have always been central to the development of culture in Europe throughout its history. That does not, however, mean that people’s conception of them both remained static – a fact which has arguably led to some of the greatest artistic and intellectual outpourings the world has ever seen. While the Renaissance is famous for its intellectual outpourings (with Da Vinci being just one of the people famous for this), it is equally famous for its paintings and sculptural works. The ubiquity of religious iconography in both artistic and ...

And their purpose, key verse(s), themes, objectives, context.

And their purpose, key verse(s), themes, objectives, context. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the Four Christian Evangelists  and the authors of the four Gospels in the New Testament. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are defined as the Synoptic Gospels, as they include many identical stories, sometimes even in the same progression. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are called evangelists, people who announce good news, as their books are to tell people the "good news" ("gospel") of Jesus Christ. The Gospel According to Matthew is the first gospel book of the New Testament. It tells the ...

Miraculous might be the most popular elements in visual culture throughout the history. The term first appears in the religious context, and is now widely adapted in popular culture including films, TV shows, and animations, etc. Synonyms of miraculous include: supernatural, magical and marvelous etc. The audience of those miraculous visuals, whether religious or not, is always attracted to this interesting element. It is different from the violent or the sentimental since the visuals target a really wide range of audience, regardless of age, race, sex, and taste. According to Hood, “ever since we are born, we generate knowledge ...

The grand inquisitor is a poem that is narrated by Ivan, who portrays a situation where Christ has descended to earth and particularly to Spain during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Upon Christ appearing, he is seen welcomed by people, he walks the streets amidst people’s joy and heals the sick and puts blessings upon their hearts. However, he is arrested, and the grand inquisitor considers him one of the heretics who were going against the Catholic Church ("The Brothers Karamazov). The inquisitors has some problems with how Jesus did things and says that it is the ...

1. The four expectations of religion and healing, as explained by Martin E. Marty, are attempts to give answers to what believers have in their minds as they show hope by claiming that the faith which they have could be used to explain matters concerning their health. These four expectations are monergism, synergism, autogenesis and Empathy (Barnes & Sered, 2005). Simply summarized by Marty as being in union with something of infinity, synergism in religious terms alludes to humanity or believers acting in cooperation with activities that are superior to the abilities of human beings. This is borrowed from the ...

The article is titled “Arsene Wenger has worked miracles at Arsenal-to abuse him now is shameful and embarrassing” and it is written by John Cross, the chief football writer for The Daily Mirror, specifically covering football stories in North London, a part mainly dominated by two English Premier League giants-Arsenal and Tottenham. The article was published on the Daily Mirror website on April 19, 2016 in the opinion section. This article criticizes Arsenal fans who abused the club head manager for dwindling performance in the league after being knocked out of the European championship and both domestic cups. Cross ...

Understanding of Miracles

Introduction A miracle is defined as an event that is not explicable by the scientific or natural laws. The event can be associated with the supernatural being God or gods of a certain society, a saint, magic, miracle worker, or a religious front-runner. A miracle is utilized to depict the beneficial happening, which is statistically improbable, but do not contradict the rules of nature, like enduring a natural disaster or a simple incident, with no concern of its possibility such as birth.

Existence of God

The existence of God is a major issue to the Catholics and they relate him to the ...

Many centuries ago, there have been arguments on whether or not there is the existence of God. These arguments are the result of atheists and believers. Atheists are people who believe that God and other supernatural beings are man-made ideas. The existence of many religions is also as a result of differences in beliefs about God. Theism, from which theistic is derived, is that belief in the existence of God or gods. From a religious point of view, a God is either a normal or supernatural being. Some religions have one supreme God while others have many gods. The ...

The Day of the Locust is Nathanael West’s forth novel written in 1939. Like all West’s previous works, this novel makes a vivid emphasis on social issues, such as spiritual and material degradation of the American society at the time of the Great Depression. It is a story about a frustrated American Dream, about life in which the perception of the reality does not correspond to the reality itself. Researchers say that the idea of the corrupt American Dream introduced by Nathanael West in his stories resulted in the coinage of “the term "West's disease" to refer ...

Introduction

The World Bewitched (1965) was written by Bekker to outline theological and philosophical viewpoints that challenged the notion that ghosts, devils, and angels had an influence on historical events, as well as nature.The story was written at a time when Christianity was being perfected in England and the rest of Europe. During this time, The World Bewitched (1965) was written, Bekker served as a minister in Amsterdam. Protestants needed a philosophical and theological approach to accentuate the assumption that God was the ruler of the world. The need to project God as the authority while discrediting the influence of ...