Hermeneutics

There is much love and respect within the church for the book of Psalms. And Tremper Longman III accurately identifies in his Preface that the Psalms are both “familiar” and “foreign” to many people in the church. People in and outside of the church are constantly exposed to the Psalms. It is a common book for devotionals and laments. However, even with people’s daily exposure with the book it has not made the text much clearer in regards to the poetic idioms, expressions, and structures that…

Existentialism, also known as individualism, is a psychological belief originating in the late 19th century and developed throughout the 20th century in France. It was first influenced by Sartre’s philosophical view, or in general the cultural progression disciplined by theology, dramatic arts and literature. The main concept varies in philosophical, religious and political views that construct the belief’s intuition. It embraces atheism, in which existentialists believe there is no God to rule…

The most complex, and perhaps the most well-known myth in Christianity and Judaism is the fall of Adam and Eve. Created by ancient Hebrew nomads and recorded by Yahwhist (J) as Genisis 3:1-24, this narrative provides religious truth answering fundamental questions regarding the origin of sin. An artistic illustration of this story is Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Adam and Eve (1526), which depicts the moment of the First Sin. The Yahwhist text of Genesis 3:1-26 reflects the social-historical context…

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Introduction Statement of the problem Western classical singing is aim at producing a good quality, clear, natural, relax, and overall loud enough sound in singing. Vibrato is an important technique in good western classical and operatic singing. The pitch of the notes quickly changing up and down makes vibrato. It is one of the important means of musical performance. Like violin, Chinese erhu and other string instruments playing with rubbing strings. Italian vocal school more likely to say:…

sciences” (Clayton 237-240) opening a path, from within the sciences themselves, to dialogue with theology. He revealed how scientific theories “inevitably raise for humans the questions of meaning that then become the focus of the social sciences and hermeneutics.” (Clayton 237-240). One of Pannenberg’s mistake was to keep the attempted dialogue on the abstract realm, missing to update it with data from Physics and biological…

Immediately to “Black Theology and Black Power”, Cone writes and publishes “A Black Theology of Liberation”. There, he reflects his deep commitment to the black struggle for justice from the perspective of Christian theology, which helps African American to recognize that the gospel of Jesus is not only consistent with their struggle for liberation but has a meaning central to the twentieth century America. “Racism is a disease that perverts human sensitivity and distorts the intellect”. He…

Beginning with the first accounts in Genesis to the ultimate final prophecies of Revelation, it is documented that God pursues reconciliation of His people to Himself. One way that reconciliation was established, was through the atonement. The word atonement in the Bible is deemed an Old Testament term; appearing only once in the New Testament, which is in the book of Romans 5:11. The meaning of atonement according to Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology is, “that God has…

In Kelly Servick’s article, “New support for ‘gay gene’”, she also talks about Dean Hamer’s research project in 1993. She discusses how the several experiments after it still failed to imitate the results. However, the largest independent replication effort to this day looks at 409 pairs of gay brothers. These trials finally reproduced the same results as Hamer. She quotes Hamer, “When you first find something out of the entire genome, you’re always wondering if it was just by chance,” who is…

1. The interpretation of modern religion has four conversation partners that interplay to create what we know as theology today. The first conversation partner is tradition. Tradition comes from the latin word tradere meaning “to hand down”. Tradition helps provide a strong base for faith to form by providing consistency based on what has been done in the past. At the core of tradition is the Bible. The Bible has been around for centuries and provides directions for the Christian community in…