Free will in theology

Free Will in Theology In the Christian faith, it is taught at a young age that God gave man free will in order to make one’s own decisions, however time and time again, both throughout history and the Bible, as well as other religious texts, that man abuses the power to make their own decisions and falls away from their gods in order to do what is superficially beneficial to themselves. From Eve being influenced by Lucifer and eating the apple of her own free will, to more modern examples of free will being used to feed man’s greed, all religions discuss the duality of free will, both the freedom it brings, but also the ways that having free will causes man to stray from their respected religious path. In The Problem of Pain, Lewis argues that…

Shakespeare’s sonnet 110 describes the importance of true love, from a perspective of a person who lost love. The poem is written with iambic pentameter with regretful, yet repentant tone. Along with the shift of the focus, Shakespeare uses melancholic diction, juxtaposition, and connotation to effectively emphasize the regret of letting go of the true love, although it is too late. In the first quatrain, Shakespeare carefully picks words with negative connotation to create the remorseful tone…

How Fate Can Influence Free-will In the play, Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, Laius received a prophecy stating that his son would murder him and lay with his wife. This prophecy directly influenced Laius's decision making on how to raise his son. Laius had his son exiled from Thebes to die. Laius's son now named Oedipus was saved from death so both Laius's and Oedipus's fate would come to fruition. The prophecy sent from Apollo, god of light and music, led Oedipus to make decisions such as…

process to God. Process Theology uses the idea of process and intertwines it with ideas of God and even evil. This philosophy or theology tries to explain God and evil through a more modern take from ideas of Darwinian biology and Einstein’s physics. God is known in the Process theology as everlasting, creative, and even the mastermind behind process. At the same time, God is also viewed as a dependent, changing, non-masculine, unemotional, and even temporal. God and…

Liberation theology has a deep history through Latin America in which it “was born when faith confronted the injustice done to the poor” (Boff & Boff, pg. 3). Liberation Theology is a vital theological perspective for our time. Liberation theology is designed so that the poor can be set free. Liberation means liberation from oppression (Boff & Boff, pg. 24). That means being liberated in societal norms that oppress certain communities. For the purpose of this paper, the oppressed will often be…

Theology and Psychology are closely tied together; however each theory has different views on evil. From a Psychology standpoint, we look at how evil is viewed at as ordinary people performing evil actions, and from a Theology standpoint we look at how God created a perfect universe, but yet we live in a world that is surrounded by evil. Psychology today is not biblically based, whereas Theology is. Integrating Theology and Psychology proves to be valuable since it helps us to understand human…

forming a foundational free church theological method. Dr. Yarnell is director of the Center for Theological Research and a professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as director of the Oxford Study Program. He earned his Masters of Divinity with Biblical Languages from Southwestern Seminary and his Masters in Theology from Duke University, as well as a Doctorate in Philosophy at Oxford University. He has contributed numerous articles…

to define black theology. Essay “Environmental Racism and Black Theology: James H. Cone Instructs Us on Whiteness,” by Marguerite…

G-d is an analysis of “The Market” and religion—exploring their shared natures and functions as forces within the lived human experience. Cox (in all but name) dissects the structure of a neoliberal economy to discover that the notion of “Free Market” moves and speaks much like that of religion. As Cox explores the relationship between “The Market” and religion within the paradigm of neoliberalism, one witnesses how a neoliberal economy elevates and enthrones the ethos of radical capitalism…

written about Luther’s Theology of the Cross. (2) To correct sentimental view of Jesus’ suffering (e.g. horrific pain endured for others), rather to look at all things through suffering and the cross. God in Christ is the “operator” on the cross, not the one being punished for the sake of others, but the one saving others because nobody identified with him. He died alone. To reiterate, Forde is writing to correct that Jesus is dying for all of us because he loves us, thus…