Essays 331 - 360
this chapter is on describing the variety of backgrounds and experience that informed early interpretations of the gospel message....
chapter by explaining that the writings of the apologists were all in response to specific topics, such as issues dealing with per...
of Early Christians Gonzalez begins this chapter by pointing out that surviving documents by the leaders of the church or those d...
Gonzalezs text, "The Great Persecution and the Final Victory," focuses on Christian persecution under Diocletian, which is charact...
Constantine, Chapter 13 From Rome to Constantinople: This section describes the rule of Constantine from his initial victory and ...
New Order, Chapter 26 The Barbarian Kingdoms: Gonzalez points out that while, the Roman perspective was that the invaders were si...
1: The Call for Reformation Justo L. Gonzalez begins chapter 1 of his text on Christian history, The Reformation to the Present D...
Chapter 2: Martin Luther: Pilgrimage to Reformation Martin Luther Justo Gonzalez begins his discussion of Luther by describing ho...
Chapter 3: Luthers Theology The Word of God In this chapter, Gonzalez picks up Luthers story in 1521, which is when he appeared b...
5: Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation Zwinglis Pilgrimage Nationalism and humanism both contributed to the Lutheran reforma...
Chapter 6: The Anabaptist Movement The First Anabaptists In this chapter, Gonzalez addresses the criticisms that were leveled at ...
Chapter 7: John Calvin Gonzalez begins this chapter by identifying John Calvin, a theologian of the second generation after Luthe...
12: The Catholic Reformation The Reformation of Spanish Catholicism Gonzalez begins the chapter by pointing out that the needs fo...
8: The Reformation in Great Britain Henry VIII Gonzalez begins this chapter by describing the convoluted course of events that le...
Chapter 25: Political Horizons: The United States Gonzalez begins this chapter by briefly summarizing the sociopolitical atmosphe...
Chapter 35: Protestantism in the United States From World War I to the Great Depression 750 Gonzalez begins this chapter by point...
political values," which are necessary in order for representative democracy to flourish, values such as "separation of religious ...
Pauline Christianity, which was developing at that time. Eusebius of Caesarea--Eusebius (263-339) studied under Pamphilius, a Ch...
the universal models there are ideas of the way that good will reveal the good news, before death or after death at either immedia...
Soares Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even...
a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...
is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...
p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...
from its past and divorced it from having any real sense of future. "The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally fo...
(Lehigh, n.d.). There would be no churches and no charitable organizations (Lehigh, n.d.). And, there would be no promise of etern...
of the day. There were Kings and Christians and those who were attached to Enlightenment ideals. In essence, Machiavellis world wa...
holy cause. Therefore, compromise is unlikely. A student talks about the" energizing character of religious zeal. " Indeed, religi...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
particularly interesting examination of the variation that exists even in the face of a transcending moral code can be made with a...