Epistle to the Romans

for its lack of abolitionist initiative. Quoting Isaiah, Douglass writes, “I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.” In the same article, “Nemesis,” Douglass echoes Paul’s Romans epistle, attending to creation’s groaning under the weight of racial slavery and its war: “The land is now to weep and howl, amid ten thousand desolations brought upon it by the sins of two centuries against millions on both sides of…

their actions. Luther even sided with the noble’s response to the violence citing that the peasants deserved to be punished for their actions (CITE). Luther sided with the nobility due to St. Paul’s the Divine Rights of Kings in Romans 13:1-7 (CITE). In this epistle, it is said that all authorities are appointed by God, and should therefore not be resisted. Luther saw the nobility as appointments chosen by God and in turn, believed the rebels were doing the devil’s work by rebelling against…

The Thessalonian epistles are some of the earliest letters written by Paul, 50-51 A.D. This early church community displayed a passionate hope in God and his promises as the awaited the return of Christ, however, constant and expanding persecution by the Romans began to present challenges for the young enthusiastic Christian community. In his letters to Thessalonica, Paul commends the community…

Ephesus: Historical-Cultural Background Situated on the west coast of Asia Minor, Ephesus was the capital of the Roman province of Asia and one of the most influential cities on the main trade route from Rome to the East. (Metzger, 207). The city stood upon the sloping sides and at the base of two hills, Prion and Coressus, commanding a beautiful view; its climate was exceptionally fine, and the soil of the valley was unusually fertile (Banks). Ephesus lay at the mouth of the Cayster River and…

John is the constant underlying theme of the atonement seen in John the Baptist’s speech, Jesus’ talk with Nicodemus, the representation of Jesus as the Lamb of God and the Shepherd of his sheep, etc. Next we also see the atonement in Paul’s epistles. In Romans Paul pictures Jesus as the propitiation for our sins. Propitiation is a word in the Septuagint was used to describe the mercy seat of the ark of covenant under the two cherubim’s out stretched wings. The blood of the slain animal was…

The Protestant and English reformation were both reforms that took place in the 16th century against the Roman Catholic Church. Comparatively these reformations are alike and different in some sense. For example, both of these reforms were led by two leaders and went against the church’s beliefs for different purposes. King Henry VIII went against the church for personal reasons, whilst Martin Luther did so because the church could not offer him salvation amongst other reasons. Martin…

Many great philosophers have challenged and tried to rule out the existence of a higher being. Saint Augustine was known for his arguments that justified philosophical and theological ideas concerning doubt and certainty, the divided self, consciousness, time, free will and God’s foreknowledge of history. He argues his standpoint views on Christianity through his literature, in particular. While Thomas Aquinas, was well known for his five proofs or ways that only rely on the world of our…

most widely agreed data and set it in a verifiable context. The bulk of the common sayings shows to be eerily specific to the situation that existed in the 20s of the first century in Galilee in which the rural peasantry were being abused as the Romans were advertising the area. The historical Jesus proves to be a displaced Galilean peasant carpenter who had got fed up with the situation and went about preaching a radical message: an democratic vision of the Kingdom of God present on earth and…

ambitious disciple. John was the only true disciple to not die a martyr’s death ("Who Were the 12 Disciples?"). Judas Iscariot was the disciple who betrayed Jesus. He was said to be a violent Jewish Nationalist who thought that Jesus would free them from Roman rule. He was appointed as the treasurer of the disciples and betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver ("Who Were the 12 Disciples?"). Jude, the son of Alpheus and brother of James, was from Galilee. He wanted the world to know who Jesus…

Thomas Aquinas, which were later adopted into the Roman Catholic Doctrine; he stated that faith was the intellectual assent to divine truth and understanding by the commandments, will, grace, and authority of God. Because of this ideal definition of faith, the Catholics uphold certain traditions and standards that differ from the Orthodox community and the other…