Academic Papers - Page 8
"Once upon a time, but not that long ago, a there was a backwoodsman who lived and worked in a very isolated forest where he chopped down trees with an axe for a living. One day the woodsman bumped into..."
"Religious compartmentalization — or the deeply ingrained human tendency to distinguish rather sharply between the sacred and secular aspects of life — has provided the Western mind with a fundamental, operative category..."
"Of all the various temptations to which Christian men and women are regularly subjected, one in particular seems to go unnoticed all too often. Yet it is one of the most serious of all and just may be at the root of..."
"Have you ever had that kind of empty, sinking feeling in your heart that you’ve gotten turned around somehow and are just heading in the wrong direction? Roy Riegels would know exactly how you feel!"
"The world has lost its story. This is a definitive trait of our current cultural situation, according to theologian Robert W. Jenson. Such microcosmic denarrativization, however, is a relatively recent development. That we inhabit..."
"In the annals of Western culture, few relationships have attained the fame and suffered the fortune as the one sustained for for eight intense years between Richard Wagner, 'opera’s prodigious innovator' and Fredrich Nietzsche, philosophy’s transvaluator..."
"Dr. David K. Naugle is chair and professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University. He is also the director of the Paideia College Society (formerly the Pew College Society) the purpose of which is to educate intellectually gifted.."
"Imagine that you have come down with a serious illness, serious enough to be admitted to the local hospital. Your doctor examines you carefully, offers his expert diagnosis, and recommends..."
"The motto of the PCS at DBU is the Latin expression Pietas et Doctrina, piety and learning. Despite the typical separation of these two biblical ideals in many religious contexts, our organization is governed by the classic Christian ambition..."
"By common confession, Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has been reckoned holy ground, and must be approached without sandals. The Salzburg composer and this classic work belongs to that incomparable Arnoldian category..."