Early Christianity

Noetic structure and the nature of God According to Nash, “The philosophy of religion is the branch of philosophy that studies questions arising out of philosophical reflection about religious claim, beliefs, and practices.” (Nash, 13). This is important to note because philosophical views on religion allows us to take note and inferences and place them in context. Nash clearly notes that in order to understand the philosophy of religion there are some kinds of questions encountered in the…

Pliny was a civil servant of the governor of Bithynia from 111.113 A.D. This letter from Pliny to Trajan is one of the most famous letter in the history of Christianity, written around 112 A.D., which he wrote when he met Christians for the first time in his district and didn’t know how to deal with them. At first, he did few things but, then he thought to write a letter to the Emperor of Trajan describing what he had done so far and asking for the guidance for the coming days. This famous…

Acceptance model. The book is organized in fours parts, a part for each model. Knitter begins with the Replacement model; he says that the Fundamentalists use this model the most. Fundamentalists and Evangelicals make up a big part of contemporary Christianity. Knitter uses a quote by Martin Marty on page 19 to stress the presence of Fundamentalist and Evangelicals; Marty compares them to the rocky mountains of the American landscape, hard to miss. Knitter stresses that people should not…

anything allows us to express God through love and actions of kindness. 5. What are your suggestions for speaking of God that might better reflect our modern cosmology while staying true to the framework for speaking about God established by the early…

royalty and lived in less desirable conditions. For historians there was nothing historically remarkable about his status. Therefore, his daily life was not written down. We only knew so little about him due to the fact that it was the stories the early Christians told about Jesus and what they have thought of him. II. Its so important that Jesus of Nazareth was born, lived and died in the Roman Empire because…

dominated the world, known as – Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. “According to Hebrew history narrated in Exodus, the second book of the Torah, the Hebrews became a nation and adopted a national god on the slopes of Mount Sinai in southern Arabia” (Ancient Jewish History). Judaism known to belief in a single powerful god, was led by Abraham who started his teachings in Jerusalem. A Jewish historian known as Josephus completed his writings in early 80 CE that the Jewish history rose…

importance of hierarchy and tradition, as well as the glorification of God through ceremonies and traditions such as the sacraments. Protestantism, on the other hand, was about shedding the opulence and luxurious embellishments Catholicism brought to Christianity. Instead of…

sacraments. The church’s strong spirit is evident as they claim that they are governed by their culture, not by landscape like the others. What stood out to me was the elements inside the Church that is a combination of both the Aboriginal Culture and Christianity that is evidence of the smooth fusion of the two faith traditions. This stood out to me because it is fairly foreign to my knowledge. I have not seen such unique church like that, but we believe in one faith and in one God. It is just…

England, their beliefs of predestination, suffering, and punishment contrasted to the traditional Catholic faith and based their lives on negative, threatening assumptions of God. However, with the scientific discoveries during the Age of Reason, Christianity replaced Puritan beliefs with reason and rationality. The Age of Reason influenced His believers into a better understand of God and creation. With the…

Tim Tebow was born while his parents were doing mission work in the Philippines. He was raised with Christian values, morals, and ethics. Throughout his life he has done mission work and, with his family, devoted his life to Christ. Tebow has always been an accomplished athlete, but his morality never faded. Tebow is currently an outfielder in Major League Baseball’s New York Met’s minor league system. In his college days, Tebow was a standout quarterback at the University of Florida where he…