In The Bible Cause, John Fea explores the American Bible Society (ABS) and the plucky Christians who built and sustained it. Published to coincide with the ABS’s 2016 bicentennial, the book offers a chronological institutional history peppered with quotations from letters written by supporters (and occasionally critics) and tales from agents working across the United States and the globe. At its heart, this book argues that two motivating commitments have driven the history of the ABS. Since its founding in 1816, it has sustained a belief in the power of the Bible to lead people to salvation and has maintained a cultural mandate to build a Christian society in the United States and throughout the world.…
In Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, chapters six, seven and “words” hold many important events. First, Sarny learns the letter “H” from John after he has been fatigued in bed. John then decides he is going to run away from the plantation, which is when Mammy goes into a deeper conversation with John about each other. Later, John is able to successfully get away from the plantation using shoes scented with pepper to throw the dogs off his trail. Transitioning into the fall, Sarny starts to be miserable as she is now old enough to become a breeder, something that she has blatantly stated she does not want to do.…
In Night John chapter 6 and 7, there are many significant events that occur. It starts off when Nightjohn is unable to do anything for 3 days because of an injury to his toes. When Nightjohn teaches another word and Mammy scolds him for it, Nightjohn says he will escape the plantation in two days. Mammy and Sarny are very surprised by this, especially since his injury would slow him down. After John leaves, Sarny believes he will get caught by Waller’s dogs, but she is wrong and Nightjohn successfully escapes.…
below the surface of the text resonate with signals from below the surface of the text, allowing the gospel to say more than it otherwise might seem to be saying. Since the gospel’s humor constitutes a form of commentary that is by saying definition implicit, our task is to make some of the humorous explicit, and to consider how the humorous elements function and how they relate to the gospel’s message.” It is not very important about John’s gospel date because “one of the points urged by those who favor a late date is the contention that the manner of referring to the Jews points to a time when they had become enemies of the church.” Perhaps, “throughout this study I argue that John’s gospel with its rhetoric of distance is a text of imperial…
Saint John the Evangelist, son of Zebedee, is one of the four Gospel writers, along with Mathew, Mark, and Luke. Saint John was one of the only Apostles to stay with Jesus at the cross during his crucifixion, and it was there where he was entrusted to Mary (Saint John the Evangelist). The Cloisters in New York, have a plaque of Saint John the Evangelist made from ivory. Besides the fact that the plaque is a carving of Saint John the Evangelist, it is symbolic to him and his works through the eagle above his head, and the writing on the book he is holding.…
Genesis 38 tells the story of how Judah, one the twelve sons of Jacob, is deceived by his daughter-in law Tamar. Throughout the text, many themes are present including deceit, prostitution, anxiety, importance of law, and honor. This essay will analyze how the characters, their actions, and Judah’s pronouncement in Genesis 38:26 demonstrate these themes.…
Mary did everything she could to reach out to Queen Elizabeth, but the queen wouldn’t let that happen. Bloody Queen's points out, “In nearly three decades of obsession with each other they will never actually meet.” While Mary sat in prison for the next eighteen years, she never met her son James. Mary was hoping her son would negotiate her release, but he never did. Mary not only lost her parents, but she lost having relationships with the only family she had left.…
The life of a Puritan was one filled with hard work and praising the lord God. We are able to learn more about their ideals through their works of art. The Portrait of Elizabeth Freake and her Baby Mary reflects the two main ideals in puritan philosophy which are so simply summarized in Ephesians 2: 8-9, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast". The two main ideals of puritan philosophy are humility and the grace of God.…
Elizabeth Dreyer is currently professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University, a comprehensive Jesuit university founded in 1942 in Fairfield, Connecticut.…
Amos was a Judean who believed he was commissioned by Yahweh to address his words to Israel, However Hosea was a native Israelite. With these two men was the custom of recording oracles which appear to have begun, for if the words of their prophetic predecessors were preserved in a written form, then they would have long since been lost to us all. Within a few years, prophets sharing similar concerns with Amos and Hosea began to be active in Judah and their words too, were preserved.…
Joseph was an honorable man. When he saw that Mary was expecting a child, he wanted to protect her from scandals. An angel came to him and said “Do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife”. She will give birth to a son, whose name shall be Jesus.…
She is a woman that is revealed throughout the story as the care-taker of Elizabeth’s husband in Peking, China. Elizabeth considers herself as Gerald’s American wife while Mei-lan is his Chinese wife. Another word that may describe her which Elizabeth prefers not to use is a concubine. Mei-lan is very kind and considerate to Gerald, even loving him as if they were married. She also respects Elizabeth, looking up to her as a model-wife and elder sister.…
Stephen was one of the great men of faith in the early Church. He wasn’t an Apostle but was chosen to minister to the widows who were in Jerusalem. He also was the first Christian Martyr. A martyr is a person who holds to a belief so strongly that he/she is willing to die for it. Such was the faith that Stephen had in Jesus Christ. S…
The Gospel opens with a salutation to Theophilus and proceeds to tell the story of the appearance of Angel Gabriel to Zachariah, whose wife Elizabeth did not have the ability to bear a child. The Angel announces to Zachariah that his wife will bear a child and that “he will bring back many people of Israel to the Lord their God. He will go as God’s messenger, strong and mighty like the prophet Elijah. He will bring fathers and children again; he will turn the disobedient people back to the way of thinking of the righteous; he will get the Lord’s people ready for him”. The dumb…
1. The existence a being that possesses the ability to defeat hyperbolas, while locating distortions that allows the being to warp through the confirmed space-time vortex and travel to any given point on the linear timeline, forwards or backwards.…