Singular God

its performance, suggesting at various points throughout his book The Drama of Doctrine that both stand on their own. In Vanhoozer’s narrative approach, God the director is also the scriptwriter with the script being scripture. Additionally, the script itself, scripture, is also an actor. In order to add to the confusion, Christ, who is also God and therefore director and scriptwriter, is also the main actor who gives form and meaning to the…

into the art world. Isis Unveiled was written during a time of significant change around the globe. In 1859 Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species”, which outlined his theory of natural selection, whilst Nietszche took the opinion that God doesn’t exist at all. These revelations, coupled with the industrial revolution and breakthroughs in science and technology, led to conventional belief systems facing a crisis. Many found their faith in conventional religion undermined, and began…

One of the classical depictions of the Hindu God Shiva shows his dancing. Nataraja is considered to be the ultimate depiction of the dance, Nataraja meaning “Lord of the Dance”. Here we see Shiva with his left leg on top of his right, and his hands holding fire and a drum. His other set of appendages are in a very distinct form. Fire encircles him in a ring while he stands on a man. This is commonly attributed to overcoming darkness/negativity and ignorance. This beautiful illustration of…

their being some monotheistic influences such as the cult of Rahmanan the Merciful mentioned by Andrew Rippin, most religions of the time were structured around polytheistic worship including the ill-coordinated and capricious activities of personal gods. In contrast, the surrounding faiths of organized monotheistic dogma were under the Christian, Judaic, and Zoroastrian pressures of the surrounding kingdoms and empires which provided little way for Arabians to maintain a more predictable and…

entirety of her actions; Hannah is a calm and positive force outside of religion. Through Hannah, Agee exhibits a constructive outcome of religion. This is done through sincerity molding one’s faith, not faith falsely creating a genuine connection with God. Hannah’s presence in the novel is crucial to avoiding assumptions that religion, in and of itself, is a destructive force.The effect of religion is purely dependent on that…

Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston revolves around one woman, Janie, on her journey to self-discovery. Janie loses herself amidst the chaos that is society and must struggle through difficult circumstances and through many long years before she finds what she is looking for. Janie is not only searching for herself, she is on that universal quest all people must make in order to understand life. She says, “Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they…

Sibbern and Møller were both philosophers who also wrote fiction. The latter in particular had a great influence on Kierkegaard's philosophico-literary development. Martensen also had a profound effect on Kierkegaard, but largely in a negative manner. Martensen was a champion of Hegelianism, and when he became Bishop Primate of the Danish People's Church, Kierkegaard published a vitriolic attack on Martensen's theological views. Kierkegaard's brother Peter, on the other hand, was an adherent of…

involves witnessing to what God has done, is doing, and will do. 5. Even so, evangelism does not aim at a response. 6. Evangelism is always an invitation. 7. The one who evangelizes is a witness, not a judge. 8. Even though we ought to be modest about the character and effectiveness of our witness, evangelism remains an indispensable ministry. 9. Evangelism is only…

ritualism's move away from religion and toward secularism as the "Ritualism crisis." "The Ritualism crisis," she writes, "articulated, merely and mightily, that whatever this right ritual might be, it would never again be explicitly incorporated into a singular source of authority, be it governmental, ecclesiastical, or philosophical. These nineteenth-century public debates about proper ritual illustrated how religion had become a category of consumer agency and secular identity" (Lofton 69).…

Questions: 1. Give us a short summary of Redemption River: Men of Mercy: Hunter James didn’t want or need redemption. Until one mission turns his world upside down. He left Mercy to fight for his country and escape a broken heart. Years later, he is hard. Cold. A man without mercy. Part of an elite Task Force, he tracks a brutal terrorist to his home town. And runs into the woman who betrayed him… Evangeline Videl was destroyed when Hunter left. Determined to move on, she finds another…