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    John Rawls bases his Theory of Justice on the intuitive conviction that justice as fairness is the first virtue of social institutions. He argues that in order to ensure fair distributions of advantages in society‚ a workable set of principles are required in order to determine how institutions ought to distribute rights and duties and to establish a clear way to address competing claims to social advantages. The second principle that Rawls develops stipulates that economic and social inequalities

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    Immanent and Transcendent

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    spread onto other countries all over the world. These similarities exists because religions need to have a basis and set of beliefs to live by and ultimately all religions’ goals are peace and harmony. Differences • A transcendent God. • The Original Sin shared by all present-day humans‚ derived from Adam and Eve. • The need for a personal savior whose death enabled individual salvation. • The power of prayer. • Eternal life spent in either a heaven or hell after death. • Return of the savior

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    Adam and Eve‚ who at first live peacefully and without sin in the Garden of Eden‚ break God’s only law by eating an apple from the forbidden tree. An angry God places a curse on Adam‚ Eve‚ and all future peoples so that they will now be born with original sin‚ thus allowing evil to enter the world. Since this ancient story‚ many have attempted to understand further the development of evil inside the soul of man. A literary pattern has developed which reveals the growth of evil and perverseness inside

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    create a system of “justice as fairness” because their lack of knowledge regarding who they are will prevent them from arranging a society that would benefit those in their position at the expense of others. Rawls’ has designed his theory of the original position as a hypothetical social contract (Freeman‚ 2012). As we do not live in a well-ordered society that the hypothetical contract is based on‚ Rawls’ theory and position is flawed and it is an implausible conception of justice. Rawls’ theory

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    On Free Choice of the will: St. Augustine’s View on Evil This paper examines St. Augustine’s view on evil. St. Augustine believed that God made a perfect world‚ but that God’s creatures turned away from God of their own free will and that is how evil originated in the world. Augustine assumes that evil cannot be properly said to exist at all‚ he argues that the evil‚ together with that suffering which is created as punishment for sin‚ originates in the free nature of the will of all creatures. According

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    manner that is different from his or her authentic being. His philosophy is greatly reliant upon religion and is derived from the experience of his sinful youth and conversion to Christianity. Conducting his knowledge through an understanding of original sin - Christians usually refer to this as mankind’s first offense‚ where evil’s effects are felt by the entirety of the human race (Christian Classics). Augustine’s interpretation‚ while also incorporating will‚ corresponds with the predestined

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    Study of Pelagianism

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    Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 I. ORIGIN OF PELAGIANISM 4 A. BRIEF BACKGROUND OF AUGUSTINE (354-430) 4 B. PELAGIUS 5 II. PELAGIAN CONTROVERSY 5 A. DOCTRINES OF PELAGIANISM 6 B. AUGUSTINE’S RESPONSE 8 III. RESULT 10 CONCLUSION 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 12 INTRODUCTION Tracing the history of Christianity‚ there have been immense intellectual wars engaged for the sake of truth. Clearly‚ Christianity was a small religion with little importance in second and third

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    world will not always suffice as a reference point for the textual world and this also goes along with reacting to the textual world more than one should do. The textual world is experienced almost as real or in some cases more realistic than the original

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    In Paradise Lost ‚ Milton characterizes Eve as autarchic as compared to Genesis‚ to show that obedience to God is truly more important than our own worth. In the original Genesis story‚ Eve is portrayed as a woman who was solely tricked by Satan into doing his evil doings‚ although in Paradise Lost‚ Milton portrays Eve as a woman who wasn’t just manipulated by Satan‚ but allows the reader to see Eve’s disobedience through her independent thought. In the beginning of book 9 of Paradise Lost‚

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    Genesis: The Effects Today Bible 105-B27 LUO: Old Testament Survey 201320 Spring 2013 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx L33333333 Liberty University January 21‚ 2013 Genesis: The Effects Today We must begin with the question: what is Genesis? Genesis is the beginning of everything we know today. It is what we research‚ study‚ and learn today about everything that exists around us. The first eleven chapters of Genesis cover the period from the time of creation to the time of Abraham (Hester‚ 1962). It

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