Hard To Be A God: A Messy, Murky Masterpiece

God’s Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian’s Fight for Freedom is a Christian biography in which former underground Chinese Christian pastor Bob Fu details his life and the moral atrocities that occur in Communist China.

When People are Big and God is Small is written by Edward T. Welch. Welch is a professor of Practical Theology at Westminister Theological Seminary. In addition to being a professor he also serves as a counselor, a faculty member, and the director of counseling and academic dean at Christian Counseling and Education Foundation. Welch has added his expertise to the field of counseling and theology by contributing to multiple books. Welch’s contributions do not end with books but expands to writing more than ten articles for the Journal of Biblical Counseling and other periodicals. Welch earned a M.Div degree from Biblical Theological Seminary and a PhD in Counseling Psychology (Neuropsychology) from the University of Utah. Drawing from his education and experiences, Welch possesses plenty of reputable credentials to warrant attention and discussion to his book, When People are Big and God is Small.

The Great Terror was one of the single greatest loss of lives in the history of the world. It was a crusade of political tyranny in the Soviet Union that transpired during the late 1930’s. The Terrors implicated a wide spread cleansing of the Communist Party and government officials, control of peasants and the Red Army headship, extensive police over watch, suspicion of saboteurs, counter-revolutionaries, and illogical slayings. Opportunely, some good did come from the terrors nonetheless. Two of those goods being Sofia Petrovna and Requiem. Both works allow history to peer back into the Stalin Era and bear witness to the travesties that came with it. Through the use of fictional story telling and thematic devises Sofia Petrovna and Requiem, respectively, paint a grim yet descriptive picture in a very efficient manner.

In John Bul Dau’s memoir, God Grew Tired of Us, he tells the inspiring and heart wrenching story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. This two hundred and eighty one page book was published in 2008 in the USA. John’s moving story begins by explaining the tense political situation in his beloved homeland, Sudan. Sudan is a country located in Northern africa. John was born in1974 into the Dinka tribe in the agricultural and cattle raising farm of Duk County. The environment of southern Sudan is scorching hot and dry, however the farmers and herders in Sudan, including the one’s in John’s own village, adapted to their surroundings by using different techniques to hunt and grow produce varying on the season. He grew up in his peaceful village very

God is depicted in the Old Testament with a very bad reputation. David Lamb is an old testament professor and he addresses some of the reasons for this bad reputation. In Lamb’s book, God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist? In his book, there are seven specific citations addressed that provide proof and evidence for those who would believe “God behaves badly.” The examples that Professor Lamb chose are: angry or loving, sexist or affirming, racist or hospitable, violent or peaceful, legalistic or gracious, rigid or flexible, and distant or near. With each chapter that Lamb writes, it provides multiple biblical narrative accounts and establishes a basis for the particular argument aimed against God.

Investigate "trilemma" options, in which one seeks a creative resolution which satisfies all values at stake.

As Jack Kevorkian says, “Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you’re playing God”. By that qualification, a great deal of human activity gets simplified to the idea of “playing God”. In Margaret Atwood’s novel, Oryx and Crake, Glenn, better known as Crake, becomes godlike in the sense that he creates products that manipulate natural functions and his own form of people-like creatures, the Crakers. However, Crake is not the only character to engage in godlike activity. The major premise of this novel is the advancement of gene splicing and genetic engineering to the point where scientists are creating hybrids of animals like wolvogs, pigoons, rakunks, and snats. Essentially, through

Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far From God: The U. S. War with Mexico 1846 – 1848. New York: Random House, 1989, xxvi, 436.

This paper will present a rhetorical context for the use of violence in the short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” as she presented in her essay “The Element of Suspense.” The form of classical tragedy in this story will also be analyzed from the critical theories of Aristotle and Longinus. Tolstoy will be used to examine the use Christian symbolism. Nietzsche will provide a more well-rounded universal conclusion to the uses of tragedy and spiritual elements in this classic story.

The “Gods Sequence” also known as “General Kornilov attacks” (Sperbur) is an excellent example of both Eisenstein’s political views and his film form, which lead it to be cut from many U.S. prints because of its anti-religious symbolism. With the title “In the name of God and Country” based on Kornilov’s banners used in his march on Petrograd, Eisenstein uses the conventions of Soviet Montage to comment on both God and Country. Due to lack of film stock, leading

In The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Slavoj Zizek explains his analytical theories about the ideology behind multiple films. His most radical ideological explanation seems to be the one regarding Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ. When Zizek embarks on the mission to explain to the viewer what the theories behind the film are, he shows some of the most gruesome and emotional scenes of the film. However, although his theories seem almost too complex to understand, they play a role in exploring the fine line between Christianity and Atheism. Now, one might be questioning if the line between these two counterparts is even fine, but Zizek clearly draws for the viewer the thinnest line possible as they try to follow the complex path of his argument of what the film truly

When People are Big and God is Small is written by Edward T. Welch. Welch is a professor of Practical Theology at Westminister Theological Seminary. In addition to being a professor, he also serves as a counselor, a faculty member, and the director of counseling and academic dean at Christian Counseling and Education Foundation. He has added his expertise to the field of counseling and theology by contributing to multiple books and writing more than ten articles for the Journal of Biblical Counseling and other periodicals. Welch earned an M.Div. degree from Biblical Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology (Neuropsychology) from the University of Utah. Drawing from his education and experiences, Welch possesses plenty of reputable credentials to warrant attention and discussion in his book, When People are Big and God is Small.

Myths, surrounding Stalin have played a major role in the construction of Stalin’s reputation, in both a positive and negative way. This essay will look at Plate 1.5.8 in the illustration book, and discuss how the myth of Stalin presented in this image differs from earlier and later mythic presentations of him.

The Gods Must Be Crazy 1 is a South African comedy film which tells the story of Xi, a Bushman from the deep Kalahari Desert. He lived happily with his family and tribe because he thought the god provided them with plenty of things. The film contains various elements about cultural differences and intercultural communication concepts. In this essay, I aim to analyze the film in the light of the concepts of ethnocentrism and values. The literature review of the concepts will be discussed in the first two paragraphs, and a description of the segments relevant to the chosen concepts, followed by analysis and discussion on how these segments informs the concepts and what could help viewers to understand.

Through out history, as man progressed from a primitive animal to a "human being" capable of thought and reason, mankind has had to throw questions about the meaning of our own existence to ourselves. Out of those trail of thoughts appeared religion, art, and philosophy, the fundamental process of questioning about existence. Who we are, how we came to be, where we are going, what the most ideal state is....... All these questions had to be asked and if not given a definite answer, then at least given some idea as to how to begin to search for, as humans probed deeper and deeper into the riddle that we were all born into.