Mere Christianity

Christianity 's Impact on Brokenness The world is a broken place, literally. To be scientific, there has been research done hypothesizing that the earth 's atmosphere and the crust is cracking. Well, the word hypothesizing doesn 't really fit this statement because it is a fact. To including the whole earth, there is physical evidence that the earth has cracks and the atmosphere has cracks. However, the term cracks that is used in this statement should not be used to say that these cracks are…

Spousal war and high class ambitions This blessed house is a story which demonstrates an Indian couple’s conflicting interpretations on Christianity and its symbols. Within the contents of the story, religious objects in relation to Christianity continue to emerge in direct opposition to the interests of Sanjeev, the male counterpart and husband of the story. Though he has no interest in these objects, it appears that his wife, Twinkle, takes a sort of novel interest in them while Sanjeev…

However, I have noticed in the multicultural counseling class that there was more information. White Supremacy is a concept that was not fully explained to me during high school or middle school. White supremacy depicts power, a group that claims everything for themselves through making a system that works for themselves. In a sense, White supremacy is a system that defends those with wealth and power. Also, White supremacy consists of white supremacist that tend to look up to those of wealth,…

These letters are instructions which pertain to Wormwood’s obligations to lead “the Patient’, a British man into damnation. From the first letter to the last, it is apparent that Lewis focuses on the notion that the path of reason directly leads to Christianity while depicting the simplicity of swaying…

nothing more than a mere creation of the Father, a creation which is not in any position to save humanity (Wiles, 1996, pp5-8). Although the bishop had Arius excommunicated (Kopecek, 1979, pp5-6) the Church still had not resolved the question of Arianism, until Emperor Constantine gathered bishops from all over the world at Nicaea (with permission from Pope Sylvester), where a Creed would be created to defeat the heretic views of Arianism and restore a common identity in Christianity across the…

the viewpoint of Marcus Borg and one as seen by N.T. Wright. What results is a seemingly flawless representation of what the discussions about Christianity should look like when taken from the various independent sects of the larger religion. This book showed its readers…

If you are a mystery fan, you might wish to tackle Chesterton’s Father Brown series. This is a series of a priest who is able to solve crimes because he takes original sin seriously and knows the heart of a sinner. They are not overtly religious but they are very mixed in quality. These short stories were collected in five books of which the first, The Innocence of Father Brown, is the best. Try these and if you like them, you can move on the others. And if you are going to read…

expanse of all different religious backgrounds, and the way the message of Christianity is portrayed at Mercer may be the only opportunity these students have to get an impression of it in their entire lives. Rather than promoting a literalist point of view, which welcomes in criticism from naysayers by stating that every single word in the Bible is without error, taking a contextualist stance on inspiration presents Christianity in a welcoming and relatable way without being pushy. At its core,…

religious into the secular, and secularism as the worldviews and ideologies that uphold and maintain the processes that secularization and the prominence of the secular possible. Throughout the essay, he also traces back secularism’s roots in Christianity and warns of “trying to elevate this particular and historical process to some general universal model” (72). Ultimately, he argues for more social scientists to study these developing and changing manifestations of secularism more ineptly…

men and women in different ways that could potentially lead to corruption of people in power. Christianity is a religion usually accused of corruption, even though their beliefs enforce celibacy, throughout history Christianity is associated with lust. Even powerful leaders, for example a Duke, are expected to uphold high standards and follow their own laws, which coincide to the beliefs of Christianity at the time. In the texts of Marguerite d’ Angoulēme’s The Heptameron, “Novel XXII,” and…