Craig Harline’s Miracles at the Jesus Oak Craig Harline is a historian and author. He is really into researching religion and culture .He was born in California and now he lives in Orem, Utah. In 1986, he earned a PhD in European History from Rutgers University .Currently, he is a professor of History at Brigham Young University in teaching courses on western civilization, the history of Christianity, the reformation, history on film, and such seminar as “Miracles”, “Culture Change” and “Tolerance and Intolerance”. However, his books are meant more for general readers and students than for scholars, and try to show the relevance of the distant European past for modern American readers. His research focuses on the religious history of Europe since the middle Ages.
Likewise, such is the case with King Phillip’s war in seventeenth century colonial America. Thus Jill Lepore’s book, The Name of War: King Phillip’s War and the Origins of American Identity, is a tremendous undertaking. However, Lepore steps out of the box and examines this historical event from a unique and interesting perspective. In 1999 when Lepore wrote The Name of War, she was an assistant professor of History at Boston University. Since then she moved on to Harvard University and became the Chair of the History and Literature program in 2003 and was “named Harvard College Professor in 2012.” Lepore received her undergraduate degree in English, her masters in American Culture and her Ph.D. in American Studies she is also a contributing writer to the New Yorker Magazine.
Paper code: NEM04361 The ‘Hero’s Journey’: Personal Resonance as Response to Narrative Written by Kori Nemme and Phil Fitzsimmons University of Wollongong Purpose of the Study The overall aim of this inquiry was to illuminate the relationships between Joseph Campbell’s (1991) notions of ‘natural response’ and the shared book experiences of a stage three class using the ‘Hero’s Journey’ (Campbell, 1988). Joseph Campbell (1991) was an American mythologist who analysed and studied myths from around the world. He found that myths are portrayals of narrative and contain a common archetypal pattern of human experience, which he named the ‘Monomyth’, otherwise known as the ‘Hero’s Journey’ (1993). He believed that readers across all cultures and throughout time experience a natural resonance towards the ‘Hero’s Journey’, which encompasses a natural accord with: • • • narrative the ‘Hero’s Journey’ pattern symbolism and archetype 1 • • connections between themes in narrative and the readers’ own life experiences a social, spiritual understanding regarding the like experiences of all humankind Contexts of the Study Joseph Campbell (1993, p. 3) researched the ‘myths’ from around the world, encompassing the religions, arts and written stories and found that all are forms of narrative and encompass ‘the one shapeshifting, yet marvelously constant story’. It is essentially the one deed done by many many different people…a certain typical hero sequence of actions which can be detected in stories from all over the world and from many many periods of history.
Allison Lee RELI 1002 Liu Xuewen 2/17/2012 This video is an interview between Bill Moyers and Tu Wei-Ming. The topic is about “A Confucian Life in America”. Bill Moyers interviews Tu Wei-Ming who is a leading expert on Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism. A proponent of the idea of “Cultural China,” which attempts to understand what it means to be Chinese within a world context. Tu is currently interpreting Confucian ethics as a spiritual resource for the emerging global community.
Also at the center of the pyramid was a chamber held for the pharaohs mummified body’s surrounded by their treasurer which they thought they could carry with them to the afterlife( Culture and Values, Cunningham /Reich, 2010 , chapter 1). What is the central concept of Taoism and what does it emphasize? The central concept of Taoism is harmony with natural process in the inner (within ourselves) and outer (our surrounding) world. Taoism begun in china over 25000 yrs ago created by a sage named Confucius he wanted to create a new and virtuous social order. Taoism teached and emphasized the limitation of human perceptio, passivity, resignation and simple guidelines to live a good life in harmony with nature and the universe (Culture & Values, Cunnigham/Reich, 2010, chapter 5, pg 123).
4-MAT Review: Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity by David N. Entwistle Abstract In David N. Entwistle’s book, Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity (2010), he offers an argument for the possibility of integrating the two conflicting disciplines: Psychology (or science) and Theology. He presents several key questions relating to the possibility of the integration of these two disciplines. He begins his book with an exploration in which he relates and compares the ancient cities of both Athens and Jerusalem. He uses these two cities for his analyses, because according to him they are both relevant in history. An essential distinction between the cultures of Athens and Jerusalem could be in how they attained knowledge.
The central part of the book deals with the conflict with Rome, and particularly what it was referred as to “The Diet of Worms”. The latter portion of the book explores the contributions Luther made to the building of the new Protestant traditions. The purpose of the book is to portrait an intimate view of who Luther was and his spiritual struggles leading him into the reformation period. Roland H. Bainton (1894–1984) was born in England and came to the United States in 1902. Dr. Bainton was a specialist in Reformation history and for many years he was Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University.
Islamic Azad University Rasht Branch Research 1 Instructor: A. Nezami Themes and Motifs in Works of Albert Camus By: Arman Khalili and Morteza Sheikhalizade Date: 91/10/10 Abstract The general themes in works of Albert Camus are discussed in this paper. The Stranger and The Plague, two of Camus’ novels, is the main works that were used for writing this paper, first we gathered some information about Camus’s life and literary career, then the themes are discussed, mostly themes are extracted from The Stranger and The Plague. Introduction of Persian translation of these books were used as reference books, in addition the myth of Sisyphus and a book that is about Camus’ philosophy is also used. Short Biography and Literary Career: Albert Camus, French writer, philosopher, and journalist was born on 7 November 1913 in Drean in French Algeria. His mother was of Spanish descent and was half-deaf.
Rosemary Radford Ruether, the author of “Gaia and God” presents the three classical creation stories in her book. According the Ruether, creation stories are also “blueprints for society”. (25) Ruether’s main point regarding this statement points to the culture of the society from which they propagate. The three classical creation stories: the Babylonian story, the Hebrew stories, and the Greek stories make up Christianity and the biblical traditions. In Ruether’s first example, she finds evidence of her theory of social blueprints in social messages contained within the ancient Babylonian creation story.
The author, John Steinbeck, in this passage from chapter fourteen of Grapes of Wrath uses the three Aristotelian Appeals in his writing; logos, with his citation of historical examples, ethos because of his scientific and mathematical analogies, and pathos in his analogy between poor families movies west and fighting a war. In the second paragraph of his passage, Steinbeck uses logos to appeal to the rationality of the upper class land owners and banks. He uses analytical language such as “causes,” and “results,” to make his argument logical and reasonable and references the historical figures of Paine, Marx, Jefferson, and Lenin to give examples and back up the claims he is making. His choice of historical figures is another logos trick, Marx and Lenin both have a negative connotation, evidence of how bad a successful revolution can turn out. This makes the reader think of the negative effects of a revolution and might make the land owners think harder before doing something that could bring on such a revolution, i.e.