something exceptional and elegant. This essay will analyze the effect of visual features of The Baptism of Christ and Adoration of the Magi. The story in this work is very typical of medieval art, so it tells about the key episodes from the life of Christ. It consists of two parts: the top shows the baptism of Christ, and the bottom describes his birth. Obviously, the viewer’s perception should move from the birth to baptism according to the logic of events in the Gospel. Moreover, there are two oval images
Purpose & Technique Essay Flannery O’Connor, in her essay named “Novelist and Believer”, writes, “Being a novelist and not a philosopher or theologian, I shall have to enter this discussion at a much lower level and proceed alone a much narrower course than that held up to us here as desirable” (563). O’Connor, though not a theologian, was very much concerned with Christian thought and the various ways in which it was expressed. She believed strongly in drawing from her roots of Judaeo-Christian
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin