http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/45/lindsay-d-clark Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:16:43 -0400 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:16:43 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/79/universal-grace-early-christian-texts-focused-on-conversion By Lindsay D. Clark - Christian conversion must be understood above all as a gift of God, a bestowal of grace, for “God is the author of this change, who by his spirit puts repentance, faith, love, and every grace into the soul”(Cruden 1958, 36). The human soul must take responsibility for accepting God but not credit for doing so; just as God breathed into it its first life, so now in holy conversion does he breathe in its second life—he, and only he. Where this is concerned people create their own hardships, as God never rests. He is always ready for the willing soul, as Augustine writes, &ldquo... Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:58 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/79/universal-grace-early-christian-texts-focused-on-conversion http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/78/contrasting-views-of-money-in-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged By Lindsay D. Clark - Atlas Shrugged’s presentation of money departs from the traditional dichotomy of the “haves and have-nots.” In fact such a characterization of money succinctly captures the ultimate evil, in conflict with the ultimate good. The separation it insists on instead may be called “the makers and the maker-nots.” The latter comprises both the haves and the have-nots, while the makers are the golden examples of the good, whose every cent was earned through their own effort.  These, the makers, the builders, the achievers, hold the belief that “the words ‘... Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:48 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/78/contrasting-views-of-money-in-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/71/confrontation-with-death-illuminates-deaths-mystery-in-the-odyssey By Lindsay D. Clark - Even in fairy tales and fantastical legends, the trespassing of the breathing upon the domain of the spirits is rare. It is a disturbing idea; when the dead visit our world, we can at least find comfort in numbers. Yet the hero Odysseus braves the unknown and looks into the eyes of death. And as ghostly whispers blow across the hair on his arms we expect him to return traumatized, changed, darkly enlightened—but no. He emerges a little puffy-eyed, but very much himself. Several times Odysseus seems close to discovering some deathly mystery, brushing the stardust off some universally kept... Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:49 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/71/confrontation-with-death-illuminates-deaths-mystery-in-the-odyssey http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/62/the-emobidment-of-human-tragedy-in-the-illiad By Lindsay D. Clark - Why raise the curtain on this 45 day by 45 night saga? In a story whose ending everybody knows already, why choose these actions of these characters to expound upon? The Iliad is not a war tale one might tell in which friends love friends, who in conjunction hate enemies, and all fight quite openly for comrades, for righteousness, and for glory—for here wherein lies a single truth? Or a story worth telling? The Iliad instead is a story of confusion, of vagueness, of mixed messages and muddled motivations. And it achieves its primary meaning not through fearless Achilles or great Hector... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:41 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/62/the-emobidment-of-human-tragedy-in-the-illiad http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/60/milk-and-honey-how-the-old-testament-speaks-to-a-people-in-exile By Lindsay D. Clark - Mortal glory is fleeting. The Old Testament generally does not concern itself with militant triumph or climactic discovery. It much rather prefers to employ “legends, folktales, artfully constructed stories, and the like”[1] to spin a web of frustration and disappointment. Taken as a whole unit, it is a product of the post-exilic period[2], for even its oldest pieces underwent editing to suit the purposes of authors addressing an audience during the Babylonian exile[3]. And so it sought to form a bond of struggle, and it succeeded, as “Judaism flourished in exile…&rdquo... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:41 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/60/milk-and-honey-how-the-old-testament-speaks-to-a-people-in-exile http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/54/viewing-four-vonnegut-novels-through-the-lens-of-literary-criticism By Lindsay D. Clark - I like Kurt Vonnegut because he’s innovative and unique, his literary voice speaking out of a time period I love, when he “was actually helping to breathe life into a new genre—modern, pop fiction,”[1] according to critic Tom Verde. Even though he himself isn’t a radical, and in fact most of his beliefs (according to him) stem from a childhood spent during the Great Depression, the unrest of the sixties and seventies allowed him not only liberation in what he could write about—science in an age of dizzying technological advancement; religion, sex, and tradition... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:55 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/54/viewing-four-vonnegut-novels-through-the-lens-of-literary-criticism http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/48/child-murders-in-medea-parallel-past-and-present-use-of-child-soldiers By Lindsay D. Clark - That wars are fought by the young for the old is a universally known truth. It is an ancient argument, a tired anti-war theme. Tired not in that it is hackneyed or obsolete, but in that its hollering admonitions have for all of time fallen on ears consistently deafened by bugles. The god of war does not discriminate among whose children his brutality destroys, though we ourselves usually tend to think of a “child soldier” as a twelve-year-old African boy hopped up on meth and indoctrinated in violence, or a teenaged Muslim boy strapping on a bomb and muttering prayers. After all, we... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:14 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/48/child-murders-in-medea-parallel-past-and-present-use-of-child-soldiers