Free will in theology

Fathers than those of the Western Church. Nearly 200 years after Wesley, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop sought to reclaim the core of his conception of Christian perfection as one of relational holiness. In her work, A Theology of Love, Wynkoop reclaims the relational and ongoing aspect of Wesley’s theology that had been lost over several generations that sought a “shorter way” to an instantaneous experience…

ago. Although there has been this rich history of service in the Mennonite denomination, there has been little work done on the theology of Mennonite service. However, since the conception of Harold S. Bender’s The Anabaptist Vision, in the 1940s, Mennonites have increasing speculated and then developed ideas behind Mennonite service theology. Bender’s influence on theology dominates many of the ideas of older texts and even plays a large role in some of the more recent texts from the 1990s and…

law” - illuminated by the “light of reason” and given divine sanction by “revelation. This was the philosophy of the many puritans who left these shores (being Scotland’s) to get away from the “tyranny” of British kings and feudal overlords for the “free world”…

Given the size of the Old Testament over the New Testament, and that my preaching comes almost exclusively from the New Testament, how do we understand the Hebrew Bible as Christian Scripture? A point lifted up from the OT is the human response to God’s grace (Kindle Locations, 2922-2926). Although God initiated a covenant, was that covenant irrevocable? According to the OT, some in ancient Israel thought so, and the Davidic dynasty thought so, but the destruction of the Temple certainly…

Pannenberg also considered and demonstrated “the inadequacy of explanations in the natural sciences” (Clayton 237-240) opening a path, from within the sciences themselves, to dialogue with theology. He revealed how scientific theories “inevitably raise for humans the questions of meaning that then become the focus of the social sciences and hermeneutics.” (Clayton 237-240). One of Pannenberg’s mistake was to keep the attempted dialogue on the…

Paradise Lost is obviously spiritual, but Beowulf, despite its lack of explicit Christian references, also deals symbolically with matters of Christian theology; the monsters represent the evil in human nature, unleashed in each case by a well-intentioned but insufficiently thought out human act, and in each case Beowulf, whose skill seems to arise from his virtue, defeats them, even though, finally, at the cost of his life. Milton’s interpretation of Adam as the epic hero differs significantly…

rate I am going to go through each of the main beliefs that make up a worldview namely my philosophy of theology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, anthropology, and evil. There are many facets to each of these six beliefs; however I will only deal with each one in relation to the questions that were discussed in class and in Life’s Ultimate Questions by Ronald Nash. My Philosophy of Theology I believe first of all that God is a personal being who is interested in all of mankind because he…

and eternity. C. S. Lewis closes his chronicle with Narnia perfectly realized in eternity, where all of its heroes rejoice in Aslan’s presence. Delving deep into theology, Lewis undergirds his events and imagery with powerfully coherent message about salvation. Lewis’s vision of the final judgement reflects a distinctly Catholic theology through its communication of God’s saving power, human will, Divine judgement. Lewis communicates the saving power of God through his inclusion in the new…

knowing of the Jewish Law is not enough to be excluded from God’s judgment (2:3,12-13). However, Paul does not appear to call for a complete abandonment of the Law simply because neither Jews nor Gentiles can follow it perfectly. While Paul’s overall theology, as explained later in Romans, argues that only faith in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection will bring salvation, in Romans 2, Paul makes the distinction between “works” (2:6) and “works of law” (3:28). Paul does spend chapters 12…

During the times of the old Catholic Church, people were caught up in the ways of thinking that they deemed appropriate for the time. These ways were a narrow and negative way of thinking, only promoting the Catholic religion, as the only religion of any importance, which would have meant many members of society, did not feel valued. But as time went on, the world changed but the ways of the Catholic Church did not. Pope Paul the sixth, a significant member of the Vatican II during the 1962 to…