Christian theology

He bases his account for Christian perfection on Mark 12:30-31, to "love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is: Love your neighbor as yourself.” Wesley describes that sinless perfection allows a Christian to “feel constant peace, joy, and love,” instead of trying harder not to sin. He helps the reader understand how to find…

challenged by the idea that Christianity and psychology are at odds and cannot exist being integrated with each other. This rather a controversial point that it can be really impossible for psychology and theology to co-exist being in the same area may be explained by the origin of both: theology is based on faith and psychology is based on truth. In addition, psychology uses an empirical system during the study together with specific methods that may…

Theology and Psychology are closely tied together; however each theory has different views on evil. From a Psychology standpoint, we look at how evil is viewed at as ordinary people performing evil actions, and from a Theology standpoint we look at how God created a perfect universe, but yet we live in a world that is surrounded by evil. Psychology today is not biblically based, whereas Theology is. Integrating Theology and Psychology proves to be valuable since it helps us to understand human…

Concerns regarding the preservation of Christianity rises as Christian influence of the public sphere in the Europe and North America dwindle while the spread of Islam rises. However, there is still hope for the Christian Religion, specifically the Protestant churches as Christianity spreads fervently in continents such as Africa, Asia and South America. However, how do various external and internal factors affect this wide-spread Christian Globalization in the South. Is the church limited by…

Being made in the image of God is such an important concept that humans need to comprehend. Our full understanding and identity of who we are as human being relies on man being able to grasp and analyze this idea. According to Gerald Bay, being able to study and evaluate being made in the image of God will lead to understanding how the fall of Adam affected the image of God. 2. Philosophical Foundations or Presuppositions To first be able to study and explore what being made in the image of…

those needs met. This is called confessional theology. Therefore, if all have a gospel, then they must exercise faith in it. How a person seeks to live out their confessional theology is called their functional theology. A person’s functional theology, if he or she is saved, can say quite a bit about…

worry establishes today’s phenomenon of the crisis in ecology. This crisis circulates around the deteriorating earth and its fouled air and unvalued, abused ecosystem. In Brennan Hill’s novel, “Exploring Catholic Theology,” the Christian mission to incorporate biblical studies and theology is introduced in hopes to bring ends to ecological issues and re-establish the beauty and importance of nature. A series of destruction completed upon our environment is startling humans as waterways are…

I am finding this mercy in theology and literature centered on feminism and liberation. In my mind to be a follower of Jesus is to be called to an extreme life of struggling to become like Christ in the world. As we learned in class, subversive wisdom goes against the norm and can…

bringing our religious heritage, in this case the Christian heritage, into our reflection on experience done from the standpoint of exploration.” (Killen pg. 52) My ability to reflect upon my personal experiences, good and bad, as an African American woman in ministry have helped develop my interpretation of the study of the nature of God and religion. These same experiences help to shape my understanding of theology, my methods, norms and sources for theology. Theological sources can be…

A recent renaissance of the doctrine of Trinity in the latter half of the twentieth century has shown to be the impetus for many prominent theologians to apply this theology into all traditional loci of systematic theology. One such enrichment is the Third Article theology (because of the Holy Spirit's position in the creed), by which pneumatology assumes first place in terms of theological methodology. Standing on the shoulders of giants, such as Karl Barth or Paul Tillich, who did not have…