Christian terms

Throughout history Christians have struggled with many questions regarding their faith and theology. One in particular that Christians have tried to answer since the time of Apostle Paul is should Christians interact with culture and how do they interact with it? Many theologians, priests, saints, and radicals have fashioned their own approach to this question. But how is one supposed to remove him or herself from culture, if that is indeed what is required, when the pieces of culture are far…

This book may be viewed as an interpretation of primary and secondary writings (data) relating to early Christian worship in the first four centuries. The author provides a study of early Christian worship that extends from the practices of the earliest Christian communities and he shows the consequences that they have on our discernment of different aspects of early Christian worship. In the preface, the author uses the groupings of comparable linguistics which separates between “lumpers”…

how missions is portrayed today. Ulfilas and Paul are prime examples of missionaries who have impacted Church History. They have influenced the Church through people utilizing their stories and what they did as missionaries for key examples in the Christian Ministry…

individual undergoes spiritual formation or the disciplines that will lead to spiritual formation, still individuals throughout church history has sought to discover spiritual formation. Albeit, the term spiritual formation is a relatively new term, the concept is as old as the church itself. Regardless of what term an individual use, the important factor is the development of a person’s spiritual disposition. This paper will seek to explore the theological component of spiritual formation…

emotion in multiple events in the book, while most of the people noticed that he had minimal to no emotion at all. Meursault is an indifferent person who doesn’t care whether he is married or not, with or without a job, in love or even hated by Christians. Since Meursault is so emotionless, he is constantly asking questions involving things that had just happened in his…

religion and architectural evolution. Christianity plays a massive role in medieval cathedrals. Building the cathedrals requires hard work and motivation. The builders believed that cutting timber and hauling stone was an expression of Christian faith sprang from the very mind of God, who guided the hands of the builders. This is what motivated the builders to keep working. When Jesus of Nazareth was crucified in about A.D 33, Christianity…

other than St. Paul the Apostle. Paul was at one point a persecutor of early Christians, however a revelation experience in the mid-30’s AD changed his view of the faith. He ultimately became the most prominent figure in the spread of early Christianity, as his many missions established Christian churches throughout the Roman Empire. During the time of his missions, Paul penned numerous letters to the various Christian communities that he had helped establish. Pauline writings were the earliest…

following John Wesley’s death his essential teaching, Christian perfection, was being redefined by his contemporaries in more strictly western theological conceptions than Wesley had ever intended. As has already been seen, Wesley was more profoundly impacted by the teaching of the Eastern Orthodox 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…

Chapter six of Practicing Christian Doctrine, by Beth Felker Jones, chiefly discusses Christology and the various heresies that have surrounded it over the years. Christology, which is the study of Christ, helps one to learn more about Jesus and his identity and how to live a good Christian life by forming a relationship with the Lord. In order for Christology to work, the person of Jesus must be known and a major idea discussed in this novel is homoousios, Jesus is full and truly God. Two other…

strengthening and unifying the Christian denominations to create an ecumenical community. Initial changes to the Mass were substantial as they were created in attempt to welcome and get more people involved through Liturgy and Sacraments followed by the changes in the Eucharist that modernized the Mass so people felt more welcome to attend mass. In attempt to understand the differences that divided the Catholic Church against other Christian denominations, the Greek term Ecumenism was formed. …