Christology

Immediately to “Black Theology and Black Power”, Cone writes and publishes “A Black Theology of Liberation”. There, he reflects his deep commitment to the black struggle for justice from the perspective of Christian theology, which helps African American to recognize that the gospel of Jesus is not only consistent with their struggle for liberation but has a meaning central to the twentieth century America. “Racism is a disease that perverts human sensitivity and distorts the intellect”. He…

Chapter five in Practicing Christian Doctrine talks about Anthropology. This word means the study of the human being. Humans are sons and daughters of God almighty. Humans are also created in the image of God. As humans, we have a guidebook for life, the Bible, and we have an ideal example, Jesus Christ, of how to live. In Practicing Christian Doctrine, humans are described as creatures, sinners and new creations. As creatures, humans are utterly dependent on God. This is true because humans are…

How best should pastors present the Gospel to their congregations? This question plagues every pastor. Effective communication of the Gospel should be the primary goal of any local pastor. One cannot effectively communicate the Gospel without taking the dynamics of their hearers into consideration as part of the preparation of delivering a sermon. Tisdale advocates for careful congregational exegesis as part of any good sermon in her book Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art. Tisdale suggest…

The Gospel of John is one of the important synoptic books that has series of events that later culminate with the Raising of Lazarus. After that, there came the death and resurrection of Jesus. Having a wider description of the working of Jesus, forms the significant part of the Gospel hence, the need to understand more about its contents. There are different dates related to the gospel of John citing various arguments and pieces of evidence that individuals stand for while discussing the time…

I will demonstrate that the knowledge I have obtained, through life experience, formal training and internship has equipped me to meet the course objectives listed for MBTS class U-CE405: Making Disciples CCC. I became a Christian in my early twenties after a year long process of reading my Bible. It was a tremendous journey full of unbelief, discouragement and finally faith. A year later the Lord called me into full time ministry. In the fall of I995 I was enrolled at Baptist Bible College…

The most famous being the Arian controversy. In 318, Arius, a presbyter in charge of a local Church in Alexandria formulated a theory that challenged the views of his Bishop, Alexander of Alexandria and the ‘orthodox’ Christology (Hanson, 1998, pp3). Arius began teaching that Jesus is not one of the essential Godheads. Arius furthered this by teaching; Jesus is nothing more than a mere creation of the Father, a creation which is not in any position to save humanity (Wiles…

Introduction This research paper will discern this authors analysis concerning the role of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of John. A review of the “disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 13:23) notable beliefs concerning the Holy Spirit will be examined and reviewed in accordance with the literary and cultural context of the Gospel. In addition, the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, a more extensive review of the Gospel will be investigated as well as an assortment of Bible commentaries, theology…

The Authentic Scripture In my understanding of the scripture, and its original form of the manuscripts, this is known as the inspired and infallible word of God. The Scripture is the product of the Holy Spirit divinely inspiring chosen men to write God’s desired message (2 Tim. 3:16-17 ESV). The bible holds the inspired words of God; it is consequently without error completely. The Scripture should only be used as an authentic source of God’s authority in all aspects of one’s life. The word…

Reinhold Niebuhr was a Civil Rights ethicist. From Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 to late 1968, Niebuhr published articles and editorials, and held public conversations interpreting the Civil Rights Movement’s ongoing actions to abolish juridical segregation and anti-black discrimination. As with the movement itself, these writings and discourses exhibit moments of optimism, celebration, misfire, disappointment, and reassessment. Niebuhr engages in what might called moral publicity,…

discourse that frames up early structures of “orthodoxy” and “heresy” in the second through fourth centuries. Driven by the idea that comfort and security could be found in like-minded groups, the early Christians clashed over everything from dates to Christology in order to form a cohesive, definitive truth- something that continues to evade Christians and still remains out of reach…