Christians rely on the Bible as the inspired word of God.” For the past few months we have been reading The Unexpected Christianity Century: The Reversal and Transformation of Global Christianity by Scott Sunquist, and it has been such an amazing read. Sunquist explains that in the early and late 1900s, many people believe that this time period would be the century for Christians. This observation was brought on from the amount of mass empires and civilizations that…
Christianity vs. Islam The religions Christianity and Islam both share many differences. With both of these religions emerging from the Middle East, they have created a great impact on this world. Like most religions, they both claim to be the one true way to God. Their differences include their view on Jesus, how the religion had originated, and also their practices.…
Book Three: Morality C.S. Lewis’ book three of Mere Christianity is the most insightful of all the books thus far. C.S. Lewis combines many depths of morality that most do not dare to approach. Morality must be fully understood by all people regardless of religion. All people must understand it exists because of evil, and last but not least, all learn about morality in their own way. However, these points can be helpful to religious and nonreligious individuals.…
Zombies, nuclear explosions, black holes. There are many theories on how the world will end. As Christians, we have the opportunity to look at prophecy in the Bible to have an idea of what the end will be like. However, the Bible can be confusing or unclear, allowing for multiple interpretations. Considering the end of time, we will look at four different views on what the millennium is and where it is placed on the timeline.…
In the previous session, the discussion of the major philosophies of education related to the fundamental components of the nature of the pupil and learning and the teacher’s role and teaching occurred. Now, a comparison of the five major philosophies against the Christian worldview will look at whether these are conflicting or in support of one another. Idealism The idealist role of the teacher is to impart knowledge into the student’s mind since they (the teacher) are all knowing and represent absolute self. In contrast, from a Christian worldview, the goal is to impart knowledge of redemption since we are saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 3:8, King James Version).…
Fredreka Goodgame Mrs. Glover Western Civilization 101 11 April 2015 Christianity: The Great Awakening Christianity is defined as the religion based on the teachings of Jesus the Nazareth; it was developed out of Judaism in the 1st Century C.E. The Great Awakening was an otherworldly replenishment that cleared the American Provinces, especially New Britain, amid the first 50% of the 18th Century. Certain Christians started to disassociate themselves with the created way to deal with love at the time which had prompted a general feeling of smugness among professors, and rather they embraced a methodology which was described by awesome enthusiasm and feeling in petition to God. This new profound reestablishment started with individuals like…
J.P Moreland’s thesis in the first chapter states that once Christians withdrew from the intellectual world, it has now become difficult for them to connect their faith to any source that is outside of the church. The influence of this idea resulted in severe damage within the Christian community and allowed secular ideals to become the leading authority in the academic area. Without the church as a leading voice, the world was forced to rely on ideas outside of fundamental biblical principles. In order to explain just how the American Evangelical church reached this point and how extensive the problem is exactly, Moreland begins with a brief history lesson.…
Modern times are the ultimate byproduct of the endless attempts of Europe to spread their influence across the world. Think about it, we defined our existence as a society from the primordial hotspot of Europe. That is because their ability to stretch their power to the edge of the Earth. These places were not discovered which is common misnomer because they were already inhabited by millions upon millions of people native to the area; places like America, Asia and Africa had massive cultural touchstones, governments and technology way before the Europeans stuck their nose in their lives. The Europeans may have paled in comparison to other cultures such as the Aztecs in the Dark ages but the Europeans eventually exploded onto the international…
The Christian worldview can be confusing at times. Many questions are brought up about a plethora of different topics pertaining to, God, Jesus, and salvation. Most of these questions cannot be answered completely, however, using the Bible they can be answered to a certain extent. By breaking up Christianity into its bare essentials; God, humanity, Jesus, and restoration, its concept can be better understood and explained. God…
Modernity – a term occurred after “Enlightenment” era in Europe that shifted people’s idea from believing in the Bible to human rational thought, freedom and progress when individual became a core of society rather than the church, put medieval time on back of history. Ending of religious influence was termed by ‘secularization’ when the Church was separated from politics. In addition, ideologies such as: Liberalism, Socialism and Nationalism and other changes of economy, society and politics were considered starting from this period. Not stopping at the European continent, modernity spread in to other region, especially East Asia because of the Western appearance in Colonial period and Cold War. However, culture, society and history of Asia…
“From generation to generation, religion teaches us how to deepen our lives, to improve the world and to join with others who have the same lofty aims” Explain how Judaism OR Christianity as a living religious tradition gives depth and meaning to the life of the individual adherent and the community. In your answer, make specific reference to examples found from your research. Religion is a timeless human concept that incorporates divine influence. Following a religion provides people with a sense of purpose, individually or as a collective community. This sense of purpose comes with following the belief system of a person’s chosen religion, and enacting their lives in accordance with religious teachings.…
Ch. 1, Secular Culture and Sexuality vs. Christian Culture and Sexuality (As described in the text) O – [Your Objective Description of the issue you have selected to critically examined] While doing the reading, I was intrigued with the information provided on how cultures throughout the ages have experienced and interacted with human sexuality. The topic I chose for my ORIID is how other cultures and religions experience sexuality in comparison to Christian’s and Jews earlier on in the faith. While focusing on this topic, I also wanted to pay close attention to how the book and supplemental materials describes Christianity and their beliefs on sexuality while knowing and experiencing the Christian faith and the Bible myself, having a more…
Christianity is referred to as a belief and reverence of God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit lined to a set of dogmas, sacraments and moral principles as captured in the stories of the Bible. Within Biblical gospels, one find descriptions of the many miracles Jesus Christ bestowed upon mankind, stories of which have become foundational to Christian belief, where the faithful profess their genuine nature and factual truths. For Christian’s miracles, expressions of divine intervention and the adherence to its teachings, practices, and rituals associated with the faith, are all part of the established heritage and long history of Christianity. Throughout the centuries Christianity has launched religious wars and inspired peace, shaping and…
In this summary of Rodney Starks book “The Rise of Christianity” I will discussing chapters 1, 2, and 4, I found the arguments in these chapters most compelling giving the best overview on the rapid expansion of the Christian religion. Chapter 1 explains the rapid growth and conversion rate of the Christian population by providing charts, facts, and statistics about the conversion and growth rate of the Christian population. Chapter 2 explains the class basis of early Christianity giving multiple arguments on the social status of the Christian population. Chapter 4 discusses the Christian and Pagan responses to the massive epidemics and how these tragedies were large factors of the rapid growth and conversion of the Christian population. These…
The missionary movement in Christian History was written by Andrew F. Wall. He went to the West Africa and taught church history and trained them for the ministry in Sierra Leone. This book is the amalgamation of three movements, and the book has three parts. In the first part the author describes about a reflection on the nature of the Christian faith, from the point of view of its historical transmission. In part two, we can study about the Christian faith transmission process of the Africa and the third part is the about of missionary movement from the West as a model of what was happened to both partners the west and Africa as the transmission of faith in Africa.…