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God is the almighty power so God is not told what to do, He chooses what he does. Saint Anselm through his story Cur Deus Homo and Dante through his story Divine Comedy talk about the incarnation of Christ to show the almighty power that God holds. God makes all his decisions for the benefit of the people and does what He feels is best for them. In Dante’s Paradiso and in Cur Deus Homo by Saint Anselm they show that his decision of incarnating Christ was a necessary one for the people of the world

The Arguments Against Transhumanism The biggest opponent to transhumanism is religion due to their fundamental views on life. Religion has played a large part in our culture, especially the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that believe in a single, all powerful God. Because of the popularity and deep rooted history of these religions, their central beliefs on what it means to be human have become ingrained in our subconscious. Abrahamic religions view death as a natural part

attempting to become the owner of all the property of Orgon. At the very end of the play there is seemingly another small theme called Deus ex Machina, it is shown when the officer comes in to the play to execute the eviction order, and instead of taking away Orgon, he takes away Tartuffe because of him now being the owner of the property. Then the king, who in Deus ex Machina is considered the god, finds out what Tartuffe

Throughout Christianity, theories of atonement are prevalent. The word atonement describes how humans can make right between them and God. The different atonement theories are explanations on the interpretations to how God saved us from sin. Jesus is the link that ties together humanity and God. There are multiple atonement theories because there is not a plain answer for why Jesus died. Just one single theory does not contribute enough to cover all the reasons for Jesus’ death. Each theory tends

Introduction The HCC hymnal is one of the most well-known collection of sacred hymns adopted by several traditional Baptists churches in Brazil currently. One could affirm that church music is always in a process of changing paradigms as observed in the history of the church. According to the history of church music, religious music always had the power to influence a local community, and among Baptists in Brazil, it was not different. Researchers support the idea that the growth of the Pentecostalism

In certain situations, an ambiguous ending is the perfect way to end a book, offering the reader something to think on while awaiting for the next instalment or it may be fitting for the mood of the novel to provide no true closure to the story. However in Margret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel where the narrator describes everything she thinks, does, or doesn’t do with an impressive amount of detail, it is amazingly frustrating for the book to take an unexpected turn to uncertainty in its

Tragedies across Time In our modern language, the word “tragedy” has become a word that describes mundane incidents that are negative. At the most, a tragedy is used describe horrific event that involves severe misfortune; however, when comes to the theatre term, the definition of tragedy is much more specific then the modern use of the word. In essence, a tragedy depending on the time and place was used to tell the tale of tragic hero and the flaw that contributed his eventual downfall. Unfortunately

according to thy great glory) It sings with full choir and repeats same text one more with male voices. From measure eighty-two to eighty-five, sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, and altos sing “Domine Deus, Rex coelestis” (Lord God, Heavenly King), and from measure eighty-nine to ninety-two, male voices sing “Deus Pater omnipotens” (God the Father

A Structuralist Analysis of City of God In his critically acclaimed motion picture, “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles depicts the growth of organized crime throughout the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s in the Cidade de Deus favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil via the lens of a young boy named Rocket. The film culminates in the death of the two rival gang leaders in the aftermath of a shootout between police and conflicting locals, we as the audience only experience through Rocket’s untimely habit of

The Life of Euripides Euripides was one of the three great tragedians. The other two were Aeschylus, and Sophocles. According to the Encyclopedia, “Euripides was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the Greek poets. He is certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times” (“Euripides”). He is well- known for transforming traditional Greek tragedies by using strong female characters and brilliant slaves. From the ninety- two plays Euripides wrote, only