Christian theology

My Theology Theology is the study of the nature of God or religious belief. I did not know what Theology was until freshmen year of college when I found out that it is a required course I have to take to graduate. Though I have found out that through going church, college, and Bible studies with my friends that I study God every time I read the Bible. I have studied the nature of God and how he relates to the world, but never have I thought of it has being theological. My parents introduced me…

poverty but also in ignorance of Christianity. In 1987, I escaped the country with my father and we came to the United States as refugees. I then went to Dordt College and studied engineering. During my college years, I discovered God and became a Christian. After I graduated in 1994, I began to work as an engineer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A year later, I got married to Katie. For many years in my early adulthood, I would regularly attend church, but I was not a committed member of the…

Theism, God and the Bible: How It All Fits A quick search on the terms theology and theism show a large number of differing definitions and views. There are many other “isms” found alongside theism. Google found terms such as classical theism, open theism, monotheism, process theism, pantheism, and panentheism, along with several others. It does not take long to discover there are many different theories and beliefs involving God. Theism is the belief of the God of the Bible or “belief in the…

Biblical Worldview Essay Jimena Renteria Dietz Liberty University Introduction Theology is more than a pile of beliefs to memorize. Theology is the study of God’s being, and it is applicable to each aspect of people’s lives. In this essay I will share how God’s truths can be applicable in my vocation as a future psychologist. While the majority of people think that a science cannot be related to Christianity, Liberty University provide us classes with a biblical-worldview…

Using the theological perspective with the psychological perspective helps makes the sessions more valuable and successful. When the counselor is using theology it is important for the counselor to have a strong foundation and knowledge of the Bible, history from a Christian perspective, and theological systems (McMinn, 2011). Next is the spiritual perspective that helps individuals to understand God’s grace when we are constantly falling but with his grace we can learn from the different…

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…

importance for the imago Dei has been debated ever since. Moreover, how one views the relevance of sin for the imago Dei, whether sin damages the image, destroys it completely or does not affect it at all is important for one’s theology of the imago Dei. In traditional theology, there are several reasons that original sin is important for the discussion the imago Dei: 1) original sin is what causes the divide between God and humanity, 2) the entrance of sin has possible ontological…

Theology is a study that all should endure throughout everyone’s life. Theology is the study of God. At a Christian level arts university such as Northwest Nazarene University, a student might find the study of Theology to become handy in a problematic situation. For example one that might encounter evil in their life wouldn’t know why evil came their way. Whereas one who even has the slightest idea of what theology is, would be calmer and wiser in their situation. Not only does Northwest…

and unsatisfactory iff viewed from a position of theological revelation. I argue that revelatory theology necessarily requires either a complete and deliberate predetermination of events or a minimum value of immutable events. While LP’s argument does allow for limited agent free will, it does so only if divine knowledge is also limited. In this way, LP’s definition fits well in the pre-Christian mythology of the Mediterranean, where divine entities were thought to have some significant…

Over the years there has been many different views on if there is sufficient evidence to support belief in God. There have been many philosophical thinkers who have looked into this controversy. Is there a God and if there is how can we prove this is true? There were many philosophical thinkers that had an opinion on this topic, some of the most important in stating sufficient evidence proving gods existence were Saint Augustine, Saint Anslem, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Saint Augustine was…