Emerging church

outreach be a missed opportunity to increase church attendance? The Vatican’s chief media strategist says the Catholic Church can no longer ignore the opportunities for evangelization that the Internet offers. Furthermore, Archbishop Claudio Celli, head of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, professed to a group of journalists, “And we forget that most fish are outside the aquarium. Unless the church engages social media, he said, in our church we are always fishing inside the…

reside today. My background is Mexican/Hispanic on my mothers side and my father’s side is Italian. My parents had me baptized when I was about 2 months old in the Catholic Church. I feel this decision has been the most influential part of my life. I have a very strong faith and from a young age have always been involved in my church, about 8 years ago my dad was in a very serious accident and I strongly believe that if my family didn 't have the faith that we had my dad would have been taking…

destined for the life of a theologian. However, he came from a family of brothers who considered the church to be “a poor, feeble, boring, petty, bourgeois institution.” He was an identical twin, and one of 8 children in his large family. Surprisingly, Bonhoeffer did not grow up in a family of theologians, but actually in a family of humanists who preferred to spend their holidays outside of the church (Marsh, 4) He was the son of one of the most famous neurologists in Berlin at the time who was…

The church in America is a part of our culture and has been since the beginning. The mindset of our country is changing and this is where the followers of Christ come from. I remember a scandal from the Clinton administration. Hilary Clinton had worn a cross, and the debate was should a government leader, such as a first lady, wear a sign of faith in public. My position back then was if, for her, the cross was a sign of faith then she had a right to wear the symbol, like a Muslim woman should be…

On October 30th, 2016 I attended Redeemer Lutheran church. I arrived there ten minutes early and picked a pew towards the back and started to take notes. The mass started around eight o’clock am and lasted approximately an hour. The service itself was similar to a Roman Catholic mass that I am use to. I was surprised that they were so similar because my thought process was since they are completely different religions than they must have completely different mass styles. Obviously after going I…

considered the foundational principle of the dignity of human life, the principle of the preferential option for the poor is the cornerstone by which all the other points of social thought are held in comparison to. With respect to the teachings of the Church, an option for the poor and maligned closely matches the historical Jesus’ teachings concerning social thought in the Gospels. Mich lists seven themes concerning CST. These include the aforementioned principle of promoting the life and…

John Wyclif, a highly controversial man, not only changed the face of English within society, but also within the well-established institution of the medieval church. By the time Wyclif was born in approximately 1330, English was gradually reemerging as the dominant language. Wyclif, however, immensely augmented the use and importance of English. He was born to Catherine and Roger Wyclif in North Riding of Yorkshire…

which was put into effect by Tokugawa shogunate, the feudal Japanese military government, in 1614. Toyotomi Hideyoshi assumed power following the previous leader Oda Nobunaga and worked towards the goal of unifying Japan. Hideyoshi saw the Catholic Church in Japan as “not only a religion, but a political power intimately connected with the imperialistic expansion of Catholic countries like Portugal, Spain and other Western countries” (Manhattan, 1984, p. 97). He grew increasingly threatened by…

original sin in the sense that it draws us into a different kind of community (Knight-Ridder). Naturally the idea of baptism cleansing a person of sins did not sit well with Protestants, and even some Catholics. On the outset, it seemed like the Catholic Church…

whole addresses theological implications regarding the church. Human nature is being depicted in certain ways that drive the understanding of their engagement with the rest of the world.…