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Life & Individual Beliefs
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Life & Individual Beliefs
Ethical & practical conflicts between real-life situations & religious & moral convictions in the Second Book of Maccabees,"The Acts of the Christian Martyrs", Brecht's "Galileo"& Robert Bolt's "[A Man for All Seasons".
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"The purpose of this research is to examine issues concerning the crisis of confrontation between individual beliefs and life itself, with a view toward discussing whether one can choose life over belief and still retain a clear conscience. Reference will be made principally to 2 Maccabees, the martyrdom of Saints Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice in The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Brecht's Galileo, and Bolt's A Man for All Seasons.The ethical issue raised is the difficulty of choice between personal and other-directed priorities. In each text considered for this research, individual conscience, which is connected to faith, is in tension with institutional authority, and each text explores the consequences of such tension from a different angle.
In 2 Maccabees, two institutions at war, and individual conscience as an expression of faith is in crisis over loyalty to.."
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