There are not many authors throughout church history who have been able to touch the centrality and supremacy of Christ like T. Austin Sparks and Watchman Nee. Their writings are apparently floating to the surface of modern religious Christianity... and they are choking out the empty dead adages and 12 step "purpose-driven" life plans. These simple Christ-centered messages are helping believers everywhere to see the simplistic nature of our faith. And Watchman Nee touches on so of these in his book “Christ: The Sum of All Spiritual Things” In "Christ: The Sum of All Spiritual Things," Nee says that Too often Christians view Christ as the one who gives us the stuff or the "things" we need to succeed and to live victoriously. We must stop running after the accumulation of worthless religious "things" and find our satisfaction in the Person of Christ.
Franklin wants to understand the nature not the belief that God created nature ideas by the Puritans. He was always wanting to wander around nature while Winthrop was inside worshiping God. John Winthrop and Benjamin Franklin represented their time period. Although they were similar in some respects, they differed in many more. For example, their views on religion, economics, and science contrasted greatly.
#80: Compare and contrast Enlightenment and Romantic views of the relationship between God and the Individual. The Enlightenment saw God as rational and tried to explain events with reason; in contrast the Romantic Era explained events with their inner feelings and that God was as human views. Both sides saw God as an evident force that created earth. The difference is that the Romantic Era disagreed with deist views, which stated that the belief in God is based on reason rather than revelation and involving the view that God has set the universe in motion but does not interfere with how it runs. On one hand, the Enlightenment views saw God as a far away figure that did not interfere with the lives of humans.
This explains why God did not simply step in and save us from the worst effects of our choices. For humans to have a genuine relationship with God it is only possible to do through our own decisions and this requires freewill, and this is supported by Richard Swinburne and Søren Kierkegaard’s example of the King and the peasant. Freewill is a necessary characteristic according to Soren Kierkegaard as he aims to put forward his idea through the tale of the King and the peasant. The parable is that a King falls in love with a peasant girl and does not want to appear to her as a king as she will be fearful and this would not be genuine love, so he decides to disguise himself as a peasant as a way for her get to know him and genuinely fall in love with him. This is similar to the circumstance of God and human freewill.
When Henry David Thoreau says “As for work, we haven't any of any consequence", he means that there is not any work of importance, it is all trivial and meaningless. Henry David Thoreau’s definition of work relies solely upon the fact that it is trivial and meaningless. But that the real meaning of life is not work, but to connect with the universe and nature. 4. In his essay, “Where I lived, and What I lived For”, Henry David Thoreau says, “Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundless truths, while reality is fabulous.” He talks about how much better life would be if people focused on reality rather than their dreams.
Those characteristics cannot be simply chosen to be incorporated they are integrated into the authors personality and profession in the real world. Nature is an essay that describes the foundation of transcendentalism, showing the value behind a person using nature to get closer to God. Transcendentalism disagrees with life in a man-made society and Ralph Waldo Emerson explains what the disadvantages are. In the essay Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, focuses on reputation/expertise and trustworthiness to uphold transcendentalism and illustrate the advantages of the belief. Reputation and expertise demonstrate what one knows about the topic, they are assisted by recognition.
Later in his life Franklin’s deist views remain the same, however, possibly influenced by his Puritan upbringing and the Puritan culture surrounding him, he seeks moral perfection that is commendable by Puritan standards. The very fact that Franklin was able to develop and publish such radical ideas that were completely different from and contradicted the accepted views of his society is proof of the progress made for the rights to think freely during this time of Enlightenment. At the early age of 19 Franklin published a pamphlet in which he revealed his idea of human nature as not in need of constant improvement and punishment because humans are not naturally good or evil. Humans are simply human, nothing else. Franklin does not believe human beings could possibly be evil because he does not believe evil could exist with an all powerful, good, and wise God.
He based his life on philosophies and wanted to live a life free of conformity. He believed in free will and expression. Christopher yearned for truth and justice, and his family just did not possess these values. What Christopher really wanted was the true existence of happiness without society's influence, or money. In Into The Wild, Krakauer shares a quote from Henry David Thoreau's Walden in which Christopher favored.
In this perspective, Dao is not a religion as the concept of gods and afterlife is vague and almost nonexistent. Daoism’s main concern is here and now, how to live a pleasant life without causing unnecessary commotion or distress to yourself or what’s around you. It is the natural law behind all creation and those who can harmonise with it will find bliss (taoistic:N.d. Para :1). A person can be Daoist without embracing any of its religious aspects. Dao is an expression of the unity of the universe and of the path human beings must take to join that peaceful unity (religion: n.d: para:3).
Victor best explains this through a quote “Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart: he again taught me to the aspect of nature and the cheerful faces of Children (56)”. Victor takes in what Henry has to say, but his understanding of this is far greater then the natural world. The beauty in nature to him is that it can be altered and improved to the ways of his likings, or destroyed with the simplest of things. Victor’s understanding of nature and its course through life exceeds his understanding of any other human knowledge. He does not take it for what it is, but for what it can be.