A 4 essay on Alan Brinkley's book 'Voices of Protest' that examines the protest movement against the policies of the Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression that was led by the US Senator from Louisiana Huey P. Long and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from a suburb of Detroit. Brinkley maintains that Long and Coughlin had the ability to manifest the feelings of the American public that sought a means to defend the autonomy of the individual and to beat off the encroachments of the modern industrial state. No additional sources cited. A 25 page research paper that tests the hypotheses that mysticism was practiced during the time of Jesus and that Jesus was a mystic. Mysticism is defined with examples given of what mystics say about their experience.
Theology is linked definitively to mysticism.
Examples of how mysticism was practiced during the time of Jesus are given using Biblical verses. Bibliography lists 20 sources. This 8 page paper provides an overview of some essential elements of the perspectives of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure as they relate to the philosophy of religion. Bibliography lists 10 sources. This 5 page paper addresses this question from the viewpoint that since God is omniscient and omnipotent, why should man pray for anything.