Essays on Faith

What is faith? To find that out, we must go on our journey together with beliefs that come along with us and try to implement themselves in our heads. Meanwhile, to survive your journey, you will have to have courage, hope, support, accountability, and wisdom….

In the readings from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition book; Aquinas, Augustine, and Dante all have claims that human reason and faith are both rely on or are compatible with one another. In the story of Augustine, we find out that in his early life he…

The choice of whether to use faith or reason in deciding various issues that face human beings remains a controversy. These two are used as a marker of whether a decision is ethical or not. Scientists and its followers believe in reason as a way…

To truly and genuinely live authentically is a goal that many strive for, despite pre-given narratives that society places based on gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. Although many try, the human behavioral phenomenon of bad faith gets in the way, not allowing individuals to truly…

In 1932, Karl Barth presented a report at the Brandenburg Mission, maintained that mission was God’s engagement. David Bosch argues that this ‘the Mission of God’ (Misso Dei) discourse advocates mission is God’s love to save the world he created. Mission comes from God’s love…

The idea of vocational work versus our calling is one that I have been familiarized with as the child of a pastor. My father was a vocational pastor, and I never truly understood what that meant until recently. He worked at the local school as…

Throughout history, they way humans perceive an assortment of different topics is greatly influenced by what we hear and see rather than what it actually is. Similar to Platos, Allegory of the Cave, where a group of prisoners had been locked up in a cavern…

The Shift of Augustine’s Faith In the Confessions of Saint Augustine Book VIII begins with an immediate praise and worship to God thanking him for allowing Augustine to be converted. Throughout the book we see a major shift of Augustine’s faith, where all doubt of…

As an individual is forced to undergo various adversities in his life, his ability to sacrifice themselves for others begins to diminish. The idea of self-sacrifice within compelling circumstances begins to seem impossible as humans revert to their natural instinct to keep themselves alive as…

Arab life prior to the creation of Islam housed many flaws. Some of these flaws including, disbelief in Allah, the committing of various sins, and shirk. Shirk, being a sin that cannot be forgiven by Allah, was extremely common prior to the introduction of Islam….

Existence of God:It is cross discussion of the theory of religion and culture. Numerous scholars gave contentions for and against the presence of God. These contentions are ordered in following structures: Metaphysical Logical Empirical Subjective The discourse of the presence of God in west began…

The elements of Christianity, which both Faulks and Owen challenge within their texts that centre upon the atrocities of World War One, serve to augment the involvement of religious faith in a place where human slaughter and annihilation of morals were commonplace. However, the ways…

The Faith Remains Strong Even Christians have found the critiques of faith and the church in the parable presented by the Grand Inquisitor in the book The Brothers Karamazov as devastating to their faith. Many non-theists appeal to this parable and similar argumentation. However, this…

A discussion of the Enlightenment’s attitudes towards religion is necessarily a complex one and cannot be answered without reference to historical influences on the social situation in Europe, and contemporary political and scientific developments. Absolute rejection of the existence of a God on the part…

A discussion of Bolt’s presentation of religious faith and its consequences in A Man for All Seasons Religious faith is, in the play, an important factor to both the plot and the presentation of characters and their beliefs. Moreover, Bolt’s almost comical, ironic approach adds…