Christian theology

direct references to theology and God were not made; so when the information was being stored in the brain, they were being stored in neural networks separate from religious neural networks, leading to dissociation between psychology and theology (Johnson, 2011). This finding is important because now that we know how teaching affects the integration of theology and psychology; we know to teach future students. From this study, we learn that in order to educate future Christian psychology…

John Christopher Thomas, ed. (Cleveland, Tennessee: CPT Press, 2010). “Anabaptism-Pietism and Pentecostalism: Scandalous Partners in Protest” in Scottish Journal of Theology 63:2 (2010), pp. 185-202 co-authored with Andrew S. Hamilton. “A Pentecostal Way of Doing Theology: Method and Manner” in International Journal of Systematic Theology 9:3 (July 2007). “Pentecostal Story: The Hermeneutical Filter for the Making of Meaning” in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:1…

Systematic Theology resolves two theological difficulties in the doctrine of God by innovatively binding together eschatology and pneumatology (advancing what I will refer to as Jenson’s “eschatological pneumatology”) in order to develop and sustain material proposals concerning God’s triune character. In terms of eschatology, Jenson’s project critically opposes theologies which are overdetermined by protological thinking, or God’s reality as source and origin, and also critically revises…

As natural theology developed it became understood as a means of demonstrating the existence of God through the reason and order of nature, separate from special revelation. This ideology, by replacing God’s gift of revelation with human ability, posed a severe threat to the established Protestant doctrines of the day. In 1934, Emil Brunner published his famous essay entitled Nature and Grace, supporting the viability of natural theology. Brunner’s thesis: “It is the task of our theological…

Over a forty-year period of teaching and writing, he covered subjects including Apologetics, ethics, theology, and history from an evangelical Christian worldview. Across his career, he taught at several prestigious schools, including Western Kentucky University, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Upon his death, Russell Moore, Dean of the School of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote a memorial in which he stated that Nash…

the Word so that we can be transformed more like Christ. The second definition of spiritual theology is a spiritual discipline in an attempt to integrate scriptural teachings on sanctification and empirical study of Holy Spirit’s actual work. Empirical study includes the actual experience of the Holy Spirit’s doing in regards to sanctification. • Spiritual theology is essential to the development of a theology of spiritual formation because according to Col. 1:28-29, in order to complete every…

Julian’s Theology In a time period of which the traditional theology of the church was centered around the damning and vengeful nature of God towards sinners, Julian of Norwich carefully contradicts the condemning nature of the doctrine of the church and offers a more forward-looking theology grounded in God’s love. Contrary to the church’s view of an angry God reigning down eternal damnation as punishment for sin, Julian reconstructs the character of God in opposition to the views by…

When studying the word of God one is invited to the joy of revelation through scripture. However, the study of theology is almost comedic due to the effort of one trying to simply understand and share what is simply indescribable and unfathomable. Nonetheless, the Church still tries to discover, learn, and grow. The study of theology is an exposition of divine revelation. This is accomplished through the study of scripture, tradition, and historical reflection. One man that demonstrates a…

greatly by another famous Christian author, C. S. Lewis, and eventually committed his life to Christian service where he spent a brief times teaching in different places and eventually ended up back in Oxford to study theology, then later he became the Regent College Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology in 1996. Soon after receiving this title Packer began his writing of Knowing God and it became a great success, much due to his previous lengthy experience in Christian studies. Summary In…

little space to even question what I was taught. Because of this limited space of learning, I thought it must be wrong to question God. I had to memorize most of the Bible, now I see that as such a blessing and a gift. If these solid sanctified Christians were okay with Jesus or God being the simple answer to every question, then it must be wrong to think anything else. When I became a teenager, I began to be much louder about my questions. My questioning the many “No’s” of our church was…