Epistle

Introduction Exegesis is a study, which implies the study of a historical context and grammatical relations to determine what the text meant at its origin. We first need to understand the text and its message before we build a theological concept of it. However, it is unfortunate that theology, even though it is primitive, is already present when we read the text (Turner 2005:203). This essay will be pursuing the intent of the text without presupposing what its meaning is. However, I am aware…

Introduction In perhaps one of the Apostle Paul’s most heartfelt prayers, Ephesians 3:14-19 paints the picture of how to be filled with the fullness of God. Paul appeals to the Lord for the church of Ephesus, not for freedom from sin or wrongdoings, but rather that they may use their foundation set upon the love of Christ to know how immeasurable His love truly is. He prays that the Ephesians may have faith, love, power, and knowledge, all so that they may know Christ. This prayer did not end…

I am writing about faith and the Required Human Response as found in Galatians; however, I wanted to point out that faith is mentioned in 18 verses in Galatians, 287 verses in the New Testament and 171 verses in the Old Testament. The Pauline epistles were written to the churches and individuals who already believed in Christ so throughout Paul calls for the fruit of repentance and faith. The apostle Paul wrote the book of Galatians in the form of letters that were written to the churches he…

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of comedy, what one can laugh at and at what point it goes too far and transitions from comedic to cruel. He uses an antagonist named Malvolio to see whether people can find humor in another person’s physical and emotional abuse. However, Shakespeare’s expansion of comedy serves a duel purpose as he uses it to teach his audience some valuable lessons about life and how one should behave. Shakespeare presents the character Malvolio in…

In this passage, Jesus clearly establishes that every rule we will ever be asked to follow, indeed every law that can possibly be followed, is derived from love. Everything we do, everything we teach must stem from a love of God or a love of others. Clearly intolerance of homosexuals does not display a love for others. Even those who are opposed to homosexuality cannot deny this. However, they will say that because God hates homosexuals (this is NOT the case, as I have been tirelessly expounding…

John Masterson History Dr. Szromba 12-18-16 The Reformation Era In the middle ages, the church was the main picture of society. People were living life not through how they truly wanted, but by how they thought the church would accept their ways of life. By the sixteenth century people were beginning to see flaws in the church. These flaws were apparent through both spiritual and political points of view. The amount of authority that the church had in the fifteenth century had strongly…

Garcilaso de la Vega, who mainly created lyric poetry. Garcilaso also composed sonnets, eclogues, and elegies, and other forms of poetry. In 1543, Garcilaso’s work was published. His works included his 38 sonnets, 5 canciones, 3 eclogues, 2 elegies, 1 epistle, and 8 songs. Another poet that came out of the Renaissance was Joan Boscan. One of his most famous works is Las obras de Boscán y algunas de Garcilaso de la Vega repartidas en quatro libros (The Works of Boscan and Some of Garcilaso de la…

Anecdotes, stories, novels, and other grandeur forms of art often bring out many different emotions and feelings such as happiness, sympathy, pain, and horror. Books such as “ the Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Stetson and “the Dead” by James Joyce lead to create a maudlin environment within the book by discussing mawkish topics such as pain and restraint. In the yellow wallpaper, one of the main themes is constraint, an element that leads to the antagonist to lose sanity, “ "I 've got out at…

Martin Luther depicted Roman epistle as “truly the most important piece in the New Testament,” “the purest Gospel,” and he highly esteemed the letter insomuch that he wrote, “It is well worth a Christian’s while not only to memorize if word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul.” Foundational, vital, Christian subthemes are within Romans that are under the overarching theme of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One of these themes is one that…

Comparing todays Protestants with sixteenth century Protestant reform shows the Protestant church to have separated themselves from the Reformation Church, and a new reform today is the Messianic Christen movement. During the protestant reform, the church existed in conflict with the Catholic church. The protestant church believed their power came directly from God. In contrast to the Catholic Church who believed the spiritual power came from the Pope and the Pope distributed this power to the…