Essays 31 - 60
This book review pertains to Laurie Green's "Let's Do Theology." The author's main argument is described, and a summation of the b...
In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...
This book review pertains to Rau Bakke's A Theology As Big as the City. First of all, the writer/reviewer describes Bakke's primar...
that led to holiness and applied that idea as sacramentum, which was to encompass the many different ways of gaining grace. They s...
it has changed over the years as the society changed. The same is true for the theological foundations of pastoral practice. Inter...
Aquinas. There is a lack of unity in terms of theology. Aquinas attempted to solve this very problem during his time. Aquinass wor...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "Quaker Summer" by Lisa Samson. The themes of the work are contrasted with actual Qu...
This essay discusses the history of the Methodist church in England and then in America. Doctrine, theology, and major tenets are ...
to live in harmony. This incorporates the need for eliminating racism and religious intolerance. This recommendation talks about d...
by science is truth (Shepard, 2007). These are the extremes of the conflict; all points in between are represented in this conflic...
different. Contextual Theology Bergmann reports five models of contextual theology, originally identified by Stephen B. Bevans,...
who subsequently play a central role in Hays study, as the Bible clearly indicates that these people were black Africans. He offer...
the loose that no one today seriously fears." Sweeney was not saying that everyone in the world should be afraid of this movement,...
his baptism, Jesus mirror the words of Isaiah 42:1, which state, "Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul del...
(Raboteau, 2008). The slaves developed a "distinctive Christianity in which blacks figured as Gods chosen people awaiting their ex...
that historical events entail. Therefore, Cone finds his starting place in his theological thinking with a historical analysis of ...
who do not fight "with severe punishment in the hereafter" (Gould, 2005, p. 15). But the Koran does not make it clear whether Musl...
Basically, evolutionary theory states that life began on earth as single-celled organisms and evolved over millions of eons to mor...
well as the future of the Christian Church in the twenty-first century. Regardless of denomination, Protestant churches generall...
either good or evil. There was no "middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his...
slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...
As such, the author contends, there can be no special compensation made for the so-called exclusivity between religion and theolog...
beginning of a very slippery slope where mankind lost his spiritual footing and began to make a distinction, a separation of faith...
covenant of irrevocable personal consent" and that procreation was not the sole purpose or the basis for the union (Lawler, 2001, ...
in his Creation in Heaven and Earth; he himself is a voice, his person invisible and unknowable. But he is fully manifest in the ...
determine the relationships between different sources that address the same doctrine or idea and it attempts to discover the relat...
to the studies of the French Revolution but finds that "the events, texts, symbols, movements, individuals, rituals multiply. And ...
its members. From this perspective it is easy to see that Scientology has more than likely had as negative of an impact on Tom Cr...
by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...
society as a whole. To live ones life in submission to Gods will results in inner peace for individual human beings, and if all th...