Romans 7: The Believer\u27s Accountability to the Law

The most strategic epistle in the NT is the Book of Romans where the clearest and most comprehensive explanation of the gospel and the principles of the Christian life. No Book in the NT is more important to understand thoroughly than is the Book of Romans. This Study Guide is an inductive study where definitions and grammatical significance are presented, followed by an application question or several related verses for the student to examine for comparable concepts. This guide is ideal for online studies, home Bible studies or the basis for classroom discussions

The African Meta-Medical Science of Ukpuho Ukpong (Soul Transplantation): A Philosophical Critique

The human soul has been believed to be immaterial and immortal element which exclusively inheres in the human body. Ukpugho ukpong (soul transplant) is an ancient meta-medical science of the Annang and Ibibio people, which is hinged on the belief that the human soul is transcendent and it exclusively inheres in proxy animal; that the soul is mortal, and can be surgically transplanted in the likeness of somatic tissue transplant. This study aimed at carrying out a philosophical critique of this belief in order to determine its significance as a metaphysical concept. It also aimed at critically examining the philosophical as well as sociological discussions on the subject of ukpuho ukpong. The study was discussed on the framework of African concept of mind which holds that the soul has dual nature, namely – the Active Principle and the Quiescent Counterpart. The paper debunks the doctrines of metempsychosis and transmigration as alien to African metaphysics. The method of ordinary language analysis was employed to analyze the concepts ukpong and mbukpong. In conclusion, the paper made the following observations that: the soul is transcendent but perishable substance, the mind has dual nature, the soul does not transmigrate and the science of ukpuho ukpong is not a pseudo-metaphysical concept but was founded on African logic of dualistic mind. The paper notes that the science of ukpuho ukpong is bugged with a number of unresolved philosophical problems. Despite that the paper discovered that the science of ukpuho ukpong can contribute significantly to meta-medicine and sustainable environmental values

The Cowl - Golden Anniversary Edition - Fall, 1985

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Golden Anniversary Edition - Fall, 1985. 20 pages

Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection

Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a relationship between a father and a son, who are, as McCarthy puts it, “carrying the fire.” This essay asserts that the body carrying the fire is a sacred, incandescent body that connects to and with the world and the other, unifying the human and the divine. This essay will consider the body as a sacred connection in The Road. Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic approach will help to explore what is sacred. In addition, their works elucidate the body as a present site of human connection and sacredness while calling attention to what is glaringly absent yet hauntingly present in McCarthy’s text: the mother. In the aftermath of destruction, primitive, sacred connections become available through the sensual body, highlighting what is at stake in the novel: the connection of body and spirit. The essay will attempt to show that McCarthy’s rejection of a redemptive framework, or hope in an otherworldly reality, shrouds spirit in physicality symbolized by the fire carried by the body. This spirit offers another kind of hope, one based on the body’s potential to feel and connect to the other. The thought and works of Ricoeur and Kristeva will broaden a reading of McCarthy’s novel, especially as a statement about the unification of body and spirit, contributing a multidimensional view of a contemporary problem regarding what sustains life after a cataclysmic event

How Baptism Doesn\u27t Form Us: Why We Seek Other Ways to Grow The Church

What if we don’t want to entrust the Church to Jesus because Jesus might have some dying and rising in mind? Could it be that we desire to be formed in ways other than the ways the triune God active in baptism forms us? Is it possible that the Church born from the font is not the Church we want? And so, we seek other ways of forming and growing the Church so that we won’t ever die. Baptism will form the Church in ways we don’t want to be formed. Allow me to share six ways: (1) giving up on growing; (2) promoting patience; (3) serving the Holy Spirit; (4) worshiping wondrously; (5) behaving differently; and (6) speaking of Jesus

The Spirit of Verdi, Arie da camera, March 24, 2013

This is the concert program of the The Spirit of Verdi, Arie da camera performance on Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Notturno: "Guarda che bianca luna", Lo spazzaamino, Brindisi (based on the Autograph), Il mistero, Stornello, L'esule, La preghiera del poeta, Perduta ho la pace, In solitaria stanza, Brindisi (based on the First Edition), Nell'orror di notte oscura, La zingara, Sgombra, o gentil, Deh pietoso, oh Addolorata, More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta, La seduzione, Il brigidino, Pietà, Signor, Il poveretto, Il tramonto, Ad una stella, Non t'accostare all'urna, and É ;a vita un mar d'affanni by Giuseppe Verdi. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

N.T. Wright and the Body-Soul Predicament: The Presumption of Duality in Ontological Holism

N.T. Wright has offered Christian philosophers a proposal where it is apparently possible to hold the belief in the intermediate state-resurrection of the body and an ontological holism in the same sense at the same time. I argue that this not only creates a basic contradiction in Wright’s ontological paradigm, but also it is not a coherent and tenable proposal despite the fact one might eventually find a potential solution to such a quandary

The Cowl - v.5 - n.8 - Dec 7, 1939

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 5, Number 8 - December 7, 1939. 8 pages

THE CONFLICT BETWEEN WEIS TIMELENDERS COMPANY AND SOCIETY IN ANDREW NICCOL`S IN TIME

This final project is entitled “The Conflict Between The Weis Timelenders Bank and Society in Andrew Niccol`sIn Time.” The aim of this final project is to describe the conflict in In Time`s. This final project adopts Marxist theory of capitalism. The theory is used to figure out the impact of capitalism on the society. The method used in this study is cinematic analysis and textual analysis. To get the data, the writer reads books and took some notes that are related to the topic, both trough the library research and the internet. The conclusion of this final project shows that the working class makes resistances to the capitalist; and the working class needs a freedom to actualize themselve