Covenant theology

Wright’s missional hermeneutic, and he addressed the question: “How can systematic theology be used to reach people cross culturally?” Despite language barriers, different cultures communicate in different ways. Therefore, complexities will obviously arise from ministering in a cross cultural context. The proposed “solution” for this issue is an adjustment from focusing on a systematic theology to biblical theology as a point of view that focuses on the narrative of Christ and God’s mission to…

Ivor J. Davidson, a Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand, compares the sinlessness of Jesus Christ from a biblical viewpoint by providing a clarification of the moral characteristics found in Jesus Christ. In addition, this particular article provides a set of questions, that answers the modernism, idealism, contemporanism, and liberalism ideologies. In this article, Davidson describes the Sinlessness of Christ with the following…

not always the best method. It assumes that whatever the principle in question is not dependent upon the context of the original passage. On the opposite extreme, I think that the redemptive movement is far too extra-biblical. To assume that the theology of the New Testament is not what we should be striving to achieve seems to be over-complicating the matter. In the end, both the Redemptive-Historical model and the Drama of Redemption model resonate with me, but the emphasis on personal…

might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy. (69) Hobbes never wavered in public about what his personal beliefs were. It is from this premise that all public statements that Thomas Hobbes professed about his Christian theology must be accepted at face…

Sanctification: Finally, after working through the meat of the ordis salutis, I arrive at the heart of soteriology: sanctification, a union with Christ, and a covenantal partnership with God to be kingdom-bringers. Although sin nature still affects us as Calvin notes, the election and mercy of God, the imputation of Christ, and the impartation by the Holy Spirit lead me to a point in which I no longer am defined by my sin nature. Literally, my sin nature died when Christ died. When Jesus died…

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…

Gustavo Gutiérrez lays out a theology that aims to understand the condition of poverty and oppression in Latin America. Gutiérrez was a Catholic Marxist who believed that both the spiritual and the material mattered. Karl Marx claimed religion was a tool of oppression which constrains the poor in poverty. Gutiérrez agrees that religion can be a tool of oppression, he also disagrees and claims religion as a potential tool of liberation. To achieve liberation humanity needs to: be set free from…

Introduction Within the context of this passage we are faced with the dichotomous pull of the glorious in-breaking kingdom of heaven, where Jesus proclaims the character of kingdom dweller, and the brokenness of the present world, where sin still besets men and women. Perhaps the listeners of the day, as we do today, sat and pondered, “Am I in the kingdom of heaven or am I out?” Scot McKnight rightly identifies that the Beatitudes are a sweeping “manifesto of a kingdom way of life.” In…

This course of Biblical Worldview has certainly helped shape my ever growing theological view on life. On this final assignment, I plan to take all that I have learned throughout this course and put my biblical worldview to the test. I want to discuss in this essay, exactly what the Apostle Paul’s epic epistle The Book of Romans teaches about many different aspects of the world and how it has affected my worldview. Most importantly in this essay, we will discuss what Romans 1 – 8 teaches…

it is a debate that questions the very nature of God. This essay endeavours to look at the two opposing views and outline the main issues that are being debated. I will then look at why the issues being discussed are important for how we approach theology and Christian living. The two sides of the debate that we will be discussing are made up of those supporting ‘classical’ theism and those supporting ‘free will’ or ‘open’ theism. Classical theism, which has been the chief view held by…