Part one is titled "Taking Up the Challenge." This first section of the book is expressing the news about injustice and how it exists today. The question that it asks is, "How will I respond?" This question will be answered in this section of the paper. Chapter one talks about the wars in Rwanda. Gary talks about the first time he went to Rwanda. He was one of the people that went down to this African country to help investigate the Rwandan genocides that was going on. The sites that were seen were frightening. The bodies were dumped in lakes along the borders of Rwanda and Zaire. Killings were taken place not only in homes and streets, but in mass at stadiums. He was in charge of identifying all the people that they found in these mass graves. Haugen then makes note of the twin girls that were dead. They were human; it could have been his kids. This, to me, was the turning point of it all. Realizing that these twin girls could have been his, he needed to make a stop of this injustice to these innocent Rwandans. Gary uses a passage from the Bible, Psalm 10:8-15, to show that God does care about these people and he calls this injustice sin. God is the one with the final plan of action and He will judge those who create the injustice, we are there to carry out His will, as Gary says; "We are the plan." Chapter two is simply titled Preparing the Mind and Spirit Through Scripture. Gary speaks of two ways we can grow into mature way of thinking about injustice. Those two points are: we can develop compassions for these people by seeing them by means of missionaries or other Christian workers and by preparing ourselves to help these people by viewing them through God's eyes, meaning His Word. The first step Gary gives us is a vocabulary term. That term is compassion permanence, which means a courageous and generous capacity to remember the needs of an unjust world even when the infant's out of our immediate sight. Simply…
The book is divided into eleven chapters and each were named after a body part such as feet, heads, right hand, left hand, etc. These are definitely interesting chapter titles because it caught my eyes instantly when I saw it. However, the author didn’t have the book in geological sequence. For instance, chapter one Feet is the story from 1783 to 1810, but chapter two Heads is the story from 1791 to 1815. The constant jumping back and forth confuses me when it comes to organizing information. Therefore, Baptist’s work itself is magnificent yet how he present it hinders the communication of his ideas.…
In studying all of the symbolism included, it becomes apparent that the Allegory of the Cave is a representation of the philosopher’s place in society, and the other prisoners reaction to the escaped prisoner returning is representing the reaction people have of philosophers, and becoming aware of the truth philosophers hold. The Allegory of the Cave illustrates book 5 and 6 for us by showing the effect education has on the human soul, and how education helps us move through the different parts of the divided line, then will eventually take him to the form of the…
The Glass jar, then, is an allegory representing a much broader canvas than the experiences of a young boy. From a cultural, mythological perspective it is an exploration of mankind’s fall from grace and expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Just as Adam and Eve are tempted by the serpent, eat from the tree of…
Churches that Make a Difference: Reaching Your Community with Good News and Good Works was authored by Ronald J. Sider, Philip N. Olson, and Heidi Rolland Unruh and published in 2002. Along with pastoring and mission work, Sider has been the Director of the “Congregations, Community Outreach, and Leadership Development Project” at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where Unruh has been the Associate Director working with him. Olson has been a mission pastor and a pioneer in holistic ministry, networking and social action.…
Written in 1935 in Vienna, Austria by Ernst Gombrich, A Little History of the World, remains a great history book that chronicles the story of human development from the caveman inventions to the post-World War 1 world. At first, the book was written and published in German but was later translated into English. In a total of forty chapters, the author describes the underlying principles and beliefs of the major world religions, as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In the logically related chapters, Ernst Gombrich incorporates these religious ideas into the book’s narrative presentation of historical events and people (Redford, 2014). Even though the book mainly targets young readers, it deeply focuses, in great detail, the sweep of human experience across the centuries, the depth of its frailty, and the extent of human achievement. While writing the book, Ernst chose his themes basing on…
Nouwen starts the book out exhausted from one of his six week lecture tours that he had taken across the United States. He takes refuge in the L’Arche community in France while he reenergizes himself before going back out on another study tour. While Nouwen is on his stay at L’Arche, he observes a poster, that little did he know at that time just how much that painting would affect the remainder of his life. The poster was an image of Rembrandt’s painting: The Return of the Prodigal Son. As his obsession with this painting grows, he realizes that it has created a new meaning for him and he is now aware of a new vocation beginning to grow within his heart.…
The most important message that Gojira convey to us are those two things I had stated before. The environmental problems and human beings are acting badly. Since these two things are the message that Gojira convey to us, I feel that “Gojira” is a very academic…
In writing this book, David Christian's intention was to enlighten people on how far mankind has come in all of its aspects. Aside from the many events of history that Christian left out,…
Cited: “The Allegory of the Cave.” Past To Present: Ideas That Changed Our World. Eds. Stuart Hirschberg and Terry Hirschberg. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.…
How does the allegory of the cave illustrate 5 & 6 – the effect of education of the lack of it in our nature…
3. Discuss how and why allegory is used in ‘Everyman’ and ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ to communicate their different religious meanings.…
Because of its status as one of the most famous and influential works in philosophy, Plato’s The Republic has had an astounding impact upon modern philosophy and thought. In The Republic, Plato presents the Allegory of the Cave. The Allegory of the Cave poses “the degrees in which our nature may be enlightened or unenlightened” (227). The allegory also serves as an insight into the life of a philosopher, and it proposes the place of philosophy in the world. The allegory illustrates the conflicts that philosophers may face while they attempt to determine the truth about the world and its nature.…
To be sure, these are the three big literary draws to the project, but they are only ancillary characters to the landscape of finding meaning throughout Western History. The key question posed is how we can find meaning in our modern era with its fast encroaching embracement of technological and spiritual nihilism.…
The first 39 books of the larger work called the Bible, is called the Old Testament. The Bible itself is arguably the best selling and most read book of all time, yet it’s well known to be quite challenging to read through and understand. The Old Testament portion of the Bible, notably the most difficult portion of the Bible for most to study and follow, yields 39 books from multiple authors, and spans over 4000 years of crucial world and church history. If that were not enough to take on, the Old Testament comes our way through multiple styles of authorship and formats, including but not limited to, books of history, law, proverbs, ethics, philosophy, treatises, dramas, songs, epics, biographies, and letters. There have been many books written and published to survey, explain, and/or bring to light the Old Testament, but none more helpful to me than the review subject of this paper, the work of Dr. Elmer L. Towns, entitled “A Journey Through the Old Testament”.…