Bishop of Durham

John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins and Dean of the School of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University in Texas. He is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College, received his M.Div. from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspar Reformed University in Budapest. A well-known evangelical scholar, Evans is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies. Nicholas Thomas Wright is a leading British New Testament scholar and retired Anglican bishop. In academia, he is published as N. T. Wright, but is otherwise known as Tom Wright. Between 2003 and his retirement in 2010, he was the Bishop of Durham. He then became Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Shout of Death…

architecture and perhaps as a being. From looking at each characteristic in this personal outlook it begins to mentally draw together each idea to form a wider understanding of why I feel this way, which will be explained in detail from the physical material to its wider social appreciation and culture. One of these main aspects of the building I enjoy is the physical precision and manpower that is put into each individual stone piece. From quarry to mortar, the process would develop along its…

establishment of royal supremacy over the Church of England, a political action, was the most significant outcome of the English Reformation and is the predominant difference between Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism . Every change in domestic policy that Henry VIII made during his reign continued to increase the power of the crown . The Act of Supremacy of 1534 declared the king as the head of the Church of England . Through this law, Henry VIII removed the church from state decisions and he…

Christian heaven. On Christmas day in the year 800 AD the king of the Francs, Charlemagne, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope Leo III. This benefited the Pope and the Church because it gave them the power to choose which people could rule the Christendom, which made the Pope the most powerful person in Europe. The Pope and other members of the church had a certain right to demand things from nobles and in some cases, monarchs, because of their spiritual connection to the monarch’s god.…

Liturgical Church Evaluation: Prince of Peace Catholic Church For my evaluation of a liturgical worship service, I visited Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Muskegon, Michigan. I attended the 10:30 mass on Sunday March 6th. Before the service, I was very excited to experience worship in a liturgical setting. Having learned about liturgical worship in class, I developed a greater appreciation for the the way that many of our Christian brother and sisters worship. Their tradition and…

The Reformation began in the sixteenth century and took place all throughout Western Europe. The religious revolution became the basis for the foundations of Protestantism, which became a main branch of Christianity. Two of the main areas affected most by the Reformation were England and Germany. In these countries, the Reformation was spearheaded by two individuals, Henry VIII in England and Martin Luther in Germany. They brought about changes in their respective countries, each in an attempt…

“Well my mother did it for my father!” I could hear the tension in his usually seductive voice. Tears began to gather in my eyes as I looked out the window. I had wanted to scream, or cry, or not talk at all. However, in reality I did not know what I had wanted. I knew what he wanted. He made that extremely clear. He was my first real boyfriend and I would have done almost anything to please him, but this was too far. Granted I am stubborn in my ways, but for good reason! I should not have to do…

Secondly, the Catholic Church investments assist the population to work, increase their income, and attend school to achieve a higher education degree. All the staffs who work in the church office are from the parish, and they can participate in the priestly life, along with their jobs. Moreover, it is important to highlight the role of the church mission in the educational field, where the most famous schools and universities belong to the Catholic Church throughout the globe. The church also…

It could be said that the seemingly beautiful façade of Ireland is merely just a front, as Irish literature explicitly challenges the idea that this country is as unaffected as their landscape. However there is a much darker and conflicted understanding that leaks through Ireland which epitomizes it 's unstable past. Prevailing literary texts represent the harsh reality that is Ireland, whereby poverty and Catholicism serve to subjugate society. However it is evident that the population embodies…

had established to the west eventually disappeared. In correlation, many cities reduced in size and power, while others flickered and blew away like smoke. However, in the early middle ages there seemed to exist a formula for any successful city: almost every city that survived was connected to the Church via bishop. These bishops held such importance that the cities they had connections with became powerful. So, in an early medieval city, the secret to survival included dependence on another…