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Lewis essay: Two ways with the Self

When you look in the mirror do you think, “I love myself, or, I hate myself?” What is the Christian answer? Are we called to love, or to hate? In this essay, Lewis seeks to expand on this line of thought and show the two ways one can perceive the self, and which way should a Christian perceive his or her self. We are commanded by God to hate our own life. In contrast to this, we are also commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves. This seems like a two commands in which contradict each other. Is there a point in which hate right? “There are two kinds of self-hatred which tend to look rather alike in their earlier stages, but of which one is wrong from the beginning and the other right to the end.” (p.297) A type of hatred is one of a man who loathes his neighbor as himself. This is a very un-Christian attitude to have. A person who personifies this type of hatred often expresses cynicism and cruelty to others as well as himself. He will be the lowest in others minds as ...

Psychology: Through the Eyes of Faith - Chapter 27 Response

This chapter seeks to answer the question, “does religion have an adverse effect on psychology?” Within the first paragraph, we are introduced to a young man who has just committed himself to God. He gives up all he has, and sells some of his father’s possessions. Upon learning this, his father brings his son to court in order to have his son give back what he owes. The son walks out with nothing, joins a group of followers who lives in abandoned churches, and begs for food. All this is told in order to ask the question previously stated, and with a story like this, it would seem that the answer would be yes. Some say that religion is a crutch, or a disease that overwhelms people. Freud described religion as “obsessional necrosis” (p.176). George Albee says that “religion…impedes efforts to relieve human misery by teaching that people deserve their fate, that to believe that misfortune and suffering are divine judgments on sinners legitimates blaming the depressed, the miserabl...

Lewis Essay: Is Theology Poetry?

Is the Bible a storybook? Granted, it does have many stories in it ranging from sappy love stories to betrayal most foul. Christianity is based within all of this, and we claim all within the Bible to be historical fact. Millions of people follow the teachings found in the Bible, and we seek to spread the good news to as many people as we can. It would seem that our theology is attractive, but the question is, “Does Christian Theology owes its attraction to its power of arousing and satisfying our imagination? Are those who believe it mistaking aesthetic enjoyment for intellectual assent, or assenting because they enjoy it?” (p.11) In other words, is our theology poetry? The Christian Theology is not just a story, as stated above, but has been shown to be historically based. It is not the mythology like that of the Greek or Norse gods, but “represents the life of the universe as being very like the mortal life of men on this planet.” (p.11) We believe that the things mentioned in the...

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