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- 211: Billy Sunday
- ... men and women of all social classes, helping them escape various forms of personal bondage and find freedom in the gospel. And if he did not convert all of urban America to his brand of Christianity, he at least played a major role in helping to keep conservative biblical Christianity alive in this century (Dorsett 3). To understand fully why he thought, lived, preached, and teached the way he did, we should look at his upbringing and conversion experience. William Ashley Sunday was born on ...
- 212: Billy Sunday
- ... men and women of all social classes, helping them escape various forms of personal bondage and find freedom in the gospel. And if he did not convert all of urban America to his brand of Christianity, he at least played a major role in helping to keep conservative biblical Christianity alive in this century (Dorsett 3). To understand fully why he thought, lived, preached, and teached the way he did, we should look at his upbringing and conversion experience. William Ashley Sunday was born on ...
- 213: Fredrerick Douglass
- ... read" (78) or even make the simple decision of when to eat and sleep. One of the themes that the book dealt with is society and its handling of slavery under the guise of Christianity. Those who professed to being the most Christian i.e., the minister who lived next door, was actually the most cruel. Douglass stated adamantly that religion was, "a mere covering for the most horrid of ... community of religious leaders, Douglass was subjected to the "meanest
most cruel" (117) acts of one human being towards another. The slaves were kept down, belittled and whipped into submission all under the tenets of Christianity. The Rev. Weeden, Rev. Hopkins and Mr. Freeland felt it was not only their right to own slaves, but also their God-given right to take these human beings and turn them into hard workers ...
- 214: P. T. Barnum
- ... own dry goods store. Barnum's mom, Irena Taylor, was a housewife. The family was moderately well off. Barnum, as a child was influenced by a strict Protestant work ethic. He fallowed a type of Christianity called Congregationalism. Congregationalism was strict about working, learning and keeping yourself busy. Fun was a scarce commodity. About the only fun the church ever had were lotteries, but even those were rare. Also the town ... He bought his own store in Bethel, he started a newspaper, and he ran a lottery. Much to Charity's dismay Barnum adopted a new religion, Universalism, which offered what he called a more "cheerful" Christianity. Barnum was strongly opposed to the involvement of the Congregationalist church in local politics. In 1831 he used his newspaper to attack a minister in nearby Danbury Connecticut. The response was nor very cheerful nor ...
- 215: Merchant Of Venice 2
- ... chose to illustrate Shylock as a Jew. According to many historians, Jews of his time were seen as the children of the Devil, the crucifiers of Christ and stubborn rejectors of God's wisdom and Christianity. However, when Shakespeare created Shylock, he did not introduce him into the play as a purely flat character, consumed only with the villainy of his plot. One of the great talents that Shakespeare possessed was ... and calls him a "cut-throat dog." Shylock also recognizes Antonio's anti-Semitism, naming him an enemy of "our sacred nation" (I. iii. 48). Antonio is incessantly trying to coerce Shylock to convert to Christianity; he even remarks on this note to Bassanio after the bond is made. Sensing this fact, Shylock's bitterness is fueled and his hatred is further developed. Shakespearean critic D.A. Traversi finds an additional ...
- 216: King Solomons Mines
- ... 258). What seems to strike me most about these characters is Haggard s reference to them as a most awe-inspiring trinity (Haggard 258). Rendering an almost immediate allusion to the proverbial holy trinity of Christianity. However because it has not been quite the custom to equate Christianity with the deficiently developed religions of Africa s native population, for such would most certainly be looked upon as a major faux-pas given time period that KSM was written. Haggard rather than leaving the ...
- 217: Gullivers Travels 2
- ... but these have no human passions at all. On this view, Swift was not advocating, but attacking reason. The voyage does seem to have a slight religious moral also. One of the oldest debates in Christianity concerns the nature of man since the fall of Adam. He was so corrupted by that event that left to his own devices he was beyond redemption. His passions naturally inclined him toward vice, and ... his first Mother. This is not a euphemism, for the Houyhnhnms cannot say the thing that is not. They have therefore some notion of existence after death, though of course they have not benefited from Christianity. Reason was not enough for the Houyhnhnms. It did not enable them to imagine a different country from their own, so that they accused Gulliver of lying when he told them that he came from ...
- 218: Anne Hutchinson
- ... of the religious and political situation in England several decades previously. Puritanism soon lost its original purpose, which was to purify and make holy the Church of England. It became another oppressive, structured form of Christianity that kept its followers from drawing conclusions of their own about issues such as predestination or visible saints. John Cotton graphically illustrates this oppression in his evaluation of the situation: "Here members of the Church ... case admirably... Anne's unruly member gave her away. She declared, even boasted, of her personal revelations from the Almighty; and that was to confess the worst. For in this the Puritan agreed with historical Christianity, that divine revelation closed with the book of Revelation. Convicted out of her own mouth, Anne Hutchinson was sentenced to banishment from Massachusetts Bay "as being a woman not fit for our society." (As quoted ...
- 219: Analysis Of Grendel And Beowul
- ... as the belief in existentialism are important aspects in Grendel. In Beowulf, the main belief is that of wyrd, or fate, and sources say that Beowulf is a pagan poem adapted to fit ideals of Christianity. The belief in wyrd is one of the most pervasive pagan elements. The Anglo-Saxons believed strongly that their lives were predestined and that powerful supernatural forces acted upon them. The inevitability of this fate ... above that, he tells Wiglaf, I thank our Father in Heaven, Ruler of the Earth-For all of this, that His grace has given me (Gardner 109). The epic poem Beowulf contains definite references to Christianity, but it is also full of Pagan symbols such as that of fate. The character Grendel is viewed in a different light in the book Grendel. Grendel is pitiful in Grendel, however, Gardner uses this ...
- 220: Things Fall Apart
- ... over. Over the seven years that Okonkwo was away, the Ibo tribe changed a lot. Most of these changes were do to the missionaries which had come to Africa to try to convert people to Christianity. Okonkwo could not accept these changes, and in a rage of anger he killed a clansman. This was the worst crime a man could commit. After Okonkwo did this he realized that there was no ... able to survive in the evil forest with the outcasts, the Africans thought that the god of the missionaries was more powerful than their gods and ancestors. This led many African people to convert to Christianity. Okonkwo could not stand the missionaries, and thought that the Africans should kill them and drive them out of Africa. But he was the only one in the Ibo tribe who felt this way. He ...
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