Religious belief

based on the notion that our cause is consistently good, while that of our enemies is always evil. Militarism in the United States cannot be separated from a deeply rooted perception of righteousness. The original Puritans arrived in America with the belief that they were the recipients of a new covenant. Fulfilling their role as the ‘elect…

By embracing her faith Dorothy Day was able to realize that only a Christian Revolution could empower social change rather than her previous belief that a communist revolution must occur in order for social change to happen. Dorothy Days view of Communism changed only when she finally embraced her faith. She was attracted to Communism prior to her religious…

Introduction Robert H Nash was a popular evangelical philosopher, apologist, and professor. Over a forty-year period of teaching and writing, he covered subjects including Apologetics, ethics, theology, and history from an evangelical Christian worldview. Across his career, he taught at several prestigious schools, including Western Kentucky University, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Upon his death, Russell Moore, Dean of the School of Theology at the…

incorporation of allegory while performing interpretation. Luther 's extreme dislike of the use of allegory came directly from extreme levels of dislike for the arrogance of the Catholic Church and it’s Officials. Luther provides great reason for this belief when he discusses his views on the Garden of Eden, compared to members of the Catholic Church. As a child, Martin Luther’s eyes were forced to be centered upon the harsh realities…

A spiritual experience is an event or moment that defines or changes a person and is usually experienced within the context of the person’s faith or belief in something. There is no set place or time for a religious experience, it can be in public or private, some are even when the person isn’t even awake. Gini Brumble had her spiritual experience over the course of a year, Jaken Bautista’s was during an afternoon nap, and my own spanned about nine months. Each of these experiences showed us…

The motif of the feasibility theory appears in the movie, which is knowledge by indefeasible justified true beliefs tells us what knowledge is not. In the movie, Neo thought he was living in a real world and his justifications were that he could walk, talk, go to work, breathe, and do daily activities just like any human. But in fact, Neo finds out through Morpheus…

The Bible: From Boring to Transforming “Honestly, reading the Bible is boring,” says 16 year old Micha, “I like the stories and stuff, but don’t see how it applies to my life.” This outlook of scripture is all too common among young people today. Micha represents a generation where all good things come in small screens, where satisfaction is based on speed, and where attention is unnecessary to succeed. This modern era has rejected patience and stillness for busyness and productivity. In such…

In what probably started off as a simple conversation, the arbitration between religion and science eventually turned into arguably the most riveting debate of the Renaissance period. Galileo is the protagonist in a story that takes place in Europe during the seventeenth century. There was a constant confrontation for using the Holy Scripture to determine the aspects of the physical world that from Galileo’s point-of-view was contrary to the laws of science. The only way to discern who has the…

The Wesleyan Quadrilateral is an important tool for theological study and understanding. Although the title includes Wesley’s name, it was not given this formal name until the 1960s by Albeit Outler who summarized Wesley’s methodology in theology.1 The quadrilateral keeps Scripture in supreme authority while giving tradition, reason and experience authority to influence theology.2 Donald Thorsen points out, “The quadrilateral sees not just dependence but interdependence among Scripture,…

The privilege of being called a child of God is a notion that has been lost amongst us. We feel bombarded by the sense of entitlement that, because we bend our knee to the Master, we are somehow above the rest of our neighbors. Our failure to do so, amongst many other failures, has alienated many seeking rest and respite from their world-weary sinful ways. We have become the very thing that Christ warned us about in our Pharisee-Like pursuit of salvation. We have cherry-picked which sins we find…