| 1. | " Beatitude, knowledge of God, and perfection are all equated
in the Thomistic schema with attaining to God."
| Source: | WILLIAMS, A. N. "THE LOGIC OF GENRE: THEOLOGICAL METHOD IN EAST AND WEST" Theological Studies 60.4 Dec. 1 1999: 679
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| 2. | " No longer is man's ultimate,
transpolitical end conceived to be the life of philosophy; rather,
man's ultimate end transcends nature itself: our end is eternal
beatitude. [24]
Also unlike the classical philosophers, who had never supposed..."
| Source: | Merrill, Clark A. "Leo Strauss's Indictment of Christain Philosophy" Review of Politics 62.1 Jan. 1 2000: 77
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| 3. | "
Whereas in the classical account, happiness encompassed the span of a
lifetime, Christian beatitude was infinite."
| Source: | McMahon, Darrin M. "From the happiness of virtue to the virtue of happiness: 400 B.C.-A.D. 1780" Daedalus 133.2 Mar. 22 2004: 5-18
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| 4. | "
Yet this feeling does not constitute happiness, fulfillment,
"beatitude," for the "bien" that is desired is
unattainable."
| Source: | Frelick, Nancy. "SEX, LIES, AND ANAMORPHOSIS: LOVE AS TRANSFERENCE IN SCEVE'S DELIE" Romanic Review 90.3 May 1 1999: 301
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| 5. | " In many Christian circles,
the turn-of-the-century mood focuses on the arrival of the Christian
millennium, a thousand-year period of happiness and human perfection
when Jesus will reign on Earth (see Evangelicals Calm Millennium Fears)."
| Source: | Asch, Kim. "Y2K Malaise Rounds Out 20th Century" Insight on the News 15.6 Feb. 15 1999: 40-41
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| 6. | " In many Christian circles,
the turn-of-the-century mood focuses on the arrival of the Christian
millennium, a thousand-year period of happiness and human perfection
when Jesus reigns on Earth."
| Source: | Asch, Kim. "Millennial bug causes malaise at century's end" Washington Times Jan. 4 1999: 7
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| 7. | "
The work shows that, to Ibn Sina, knowledge of the eternal aspects
of the universe, primarily of God, is the highest human objective and
the only thing that secures human happiness or heavenly existence."
| Source: | Rhodes, Fred. "IBN SINA AND MYSTICISM REMARKS AND ADMONITIONS" Middle East Oct. 1 1999: 33
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| 8. | " According to Dante, the "supreme
pontiff" is entrusted with the task of leading men to "life
eternal"; the emperor is concerned with their "temporal
happiness." There is a division of ends within proper human life."
| Source: | Ryn, Claes G. "The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism" Humanitas 12.2 Sept. 22 1999: 4
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| 9. | "... embodied
reality. `Resurrection' means, therefore, the termination and
perfection of the whole man before God, which gives him `eternal
life.' Man is a many-sided being which in (and despite) its unity
stretches, as it were, through several very different
dimensions--through..."
| Source: | PRUSAK, BERNARD P. "BODILY RESURRECTION IN CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES" Theological Studies 61.1 Mar. 1 2000: 64
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| 10. | "
Should you be eternally like a child, and sleep like that which is
nothing? forgo victory? not run through all perfections?"
| Source: | Michaelis, Loralea. "The Wisdom of Prometheus: Kant, Marx, and Holderin on Politics, Disappointment, and the limits of Modernity" Polity 31.4 June 22 1999: 537
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| 11. | " Nietzsche's distrust of the unknown God of will turns into
childlike trust of the world when the will learns to will eternal
recurrence: "But how can merely not remembering or forgetting be a
way to perfection?"
| Source: | Heyking, John von. "Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same" Review of Politics v60.n3 June 22 1998: 602-607
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| 12. | "... "is a circle."
Toomer's use of the trope was deliberate--it was a recurring trope
in Frank's own writings, an image suggesting both perfection,
having no beginning and no end, and the possibility of eternal renewal."
| Source: | Scruggs, Charles. "THE RELUCTANT WITNESS: WHAT JEAN TOOMER REMEMBERED FROM WINESBURG, OHIO" Studies in American Fiction 28.1 Mar. 22 2000: 77
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| 13. | " Happiness does not consist in total devotion to the state, nor in
a search for moral perfection and refinement of a few selected passions,
but rather in the careful balancing and harmonization between them all."
| Source: | Russo, Elena. "MONSTROUS VIRTUE: MONTESQUIEU'S CONSIDERATIONS SUR LES ROMAINS" Romanic Review 90.3 May 1 1999: 333
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| 14. | " Whether it's
Baywatch babes filling their swimsuits to impossible extremes, or the
unrelenting parade of beautiful, slender movie stars gazing out from
magazine covers and movie screens, the underlying message is that
physical perfection is the only route to self-confidence and happiness."
| Source: | WHITAKER, BARBARA. "CUT TO FIT" New York Times Upfront 132.12 Feb. 14 2000: 8
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| 15. | "... and perfection, Pandora
instead refers to Adam's native innocence and perfection, which are
the nurse and guide of his perseverance and happiness."
| Source: | Butler, George F. "Tertullian's Pandora and John Milton's The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce" Christianity and Literature 52.3 Mar. 22 2003: 325-344
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| 16. | "... and thematic foundation
upon which A Midsummer Night's Dream is built." (91) This
penchant to create happiness in its audience and its supposed perfection
of structure have even colored the second world of Shakespeare's
drama green, for myth critics, pleased..."
| Source: | Conlan, J.P. "The Fey Beauty of A Midsummer Night's Dream: a Shakespearean comedy in its courtly context" Shakespeare Studies 32 Jan. 1 2004: 118-173
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| 17. | " From time to time
there arise bizarre sects that attempt to open up extraordinary pathways
to eternal happiness."
| Source: | Brown, Michael F. "American spirits: the Neopagan and New Age movements have now been put under the microscope of anthropology" Natural History 113.9 Nov. 1 2004: 46-51
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| 18. | " One finds eternal happiness in being fully merged into
"the Fountain," the continual pouring-out and passing-away of
everything."
| Source: | CUPITT, DON. "The Radical Christian Worldview" Cross Currents Mar. 22 2000: 56
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| 19. | " Happiness is a certain way of seeing the world; it is
surrendering all attempts to control the world, and seeing it as sublime
in its eternal form, in its logical features."
| Source: | VERBIN, N. K. "Religious beliefs and aspect seeing" Religious Studies 36.1 Mar. 1 2000: 1
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| 20. | "
The reason A is such an effective reductio argument is that,
although Christianity prides itself as ultimately grounded in love of
God, its soteriology is teleological--that is, goal-oriented toward
achieving the summum bonum of eternal happiness."
| Source: | Schoenig, Richard. "The Idiot's Guide to Salvation" Humanist 60.1 Jan. 1 2000: 39
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| 21. | " At her death, Clarissa's beautiful countenance is
recorded in Belford's own "death-bed reflection":
"Such a charming serenity overspreading her sweet face at the
instant as seemed to manifest her eternal happiness already begun"
(p. 1362)."
| Source: | ZIGAROVICH, JOLENE. "COURTING DEATH: NECROPHILIA IN SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S CLARISSA" Studies in the Novel 32.2 June 22 2000: 112
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| 22. | "... who will "eternally hold her body superior
to any idea, will hold full life in the body to be the real
happiness" (p. 94)."
| Source: | HARRISON, JOHN R. "THE FLESH AND THE WORD: THE EVOLUTION OF A METAPHYSIC IN THEEARLY WORK OF D. H. LAWRENCE" Studies in the Novel 32.1 Mar. 22 2000: 29
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| 23. | "... of," Mr. Ghaffar
said.
"Today prosperity, happiness and good health, though not
eternal life, are all part of life that Bahrainis take very
seriously."
KICK FROM CAFFEINE
..."
| Source: | Morrison, James. "EMBASSY ROW" Washington Times Nov. 15 1999: 10
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| 24. | " In a similar petition the
Londoner Robert McPherson declared that although he had been a Calvinist
since an early age, he had realised that the Catholic Church 'was
the only one where man can find eternal happiness'."
| Source: | MARTINEZ-FERNANDEZ, LUIS. "Crypto-Protestants and Pseudo-Catholics in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.2 Apr. 1 2000: 347
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| 25. | "... a celestial spirit
(Jesus) and would be reunited with the deceased in a state of eternal
happiness. [27]
Other Indian leaders, such as the Cherokee Yonaguska or Chief
Drowning Bear,..."
| Source: | Ortiz, Leonard David. ""AND THE STONES SHALL CRY OUT": NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY IN THE LAWRENCE INDIAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH [*]" Journal of Ecumenical Studies June 22 1999: 363
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