Terminator Salvation

The Wesley Understand of Human Salvation What is salvation? The salvation which is here spoken of is not what is frequently understood by the word, the going to heaven, eternal happiness. ……It is not a blessing which lies on the other side of death….it is a present thing….[it] might be extended to the entire work of God , from the first dawning of grace in the soul till it is consummated in glory (Maddox 143). Albert C. Outler noted that this sermon has the most extensive history of oral…

Anonymous’ Everyman Influence in Stuart’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory The play, Everyman by Anonymous, is a play that the masses could relate to. It is an allegorical piece that allows any person to place themselves in the shoes of Everyman and walk his journey. The play beings after a brief prologue, God speaks of humanities lack of faith in Him and becoming too absorbed in material wealth, so He instructs Death to go to Everyman and summon him to heaven for his final judgement. In…

1. This is from "Upon the Burning of Our House" written by colonial American Puritan poet Ann Bradstreet. In the poem Bradstreet recalls of waking up in the middle of the night to her own house catching on fire. She escapes the flames, but is saddened by her loss, but still keeps her faith in God. She knows that her earthly possessions are still "his own" and that God "gave and took" her things on earth. Bradstreet is grateful in that God has freed her from the temptations of earthly possessions…

Revivalist preacher, Jonathon Edwards, in his homily, From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, conveys the idea that those who haven’t experienced an internal renewal are servants of the devil. Edwards’ purpose is to portray the depravity and perversion of sinners and their ways. He adopts multiple tones, a fearful tone being a prevalent one, in order to foreground the immorality of choosing sin over God and the implications of doing so. Edwards proficiently uses the stylistic choices of…

Humanly speaking, everyone owns a list of pet peeves or things considered “intolerable” according to Elliot (2008) the intolerable things can be agreed upon by individuals and groups (235). For example, human trafficking is intolerable; enslaving children and adults in the business of prostitution is troubling to those who exist on the other side of the issue. Families are losing their loved ones due to predators abducting their children and shipping them across borders as an underground…

However, He chose to live in humility and do what was right and pleasing to His Father. What an incredible example of how Jesus overcame the human desire to claim power and authority and instead decided to walk humbly. Jesus’ Sufferings Perhaps nothing can be clearer of Jesus’ humanity than through His sufferings. Jesus certainly did not live a pain free life filled with nothing but joy and comfort. Nothing could be further from the truth. His humanity enables Him to relate to us in a way…

Often in sermans ministers pastors persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or moral fashion. Such is the case in “sinner in the hands of an angry god” by Jonathon Edwards where he illustrated that the moral of the story is “if sinners repent, they won’t face the wrath of god” Edward using an convincing tone and wanted to have an impact on his audience by appealing to their fears, pity and Varity. Edward had an impact on his puritan’s audience because of convincing tone, clear imagery…

Preacher, Jonathan Edward, in his sermon “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God”, preaches his personal belief of what is going to happen to us when we die and what God will do to people who have not repented. Edward’s purpose is to convey the idea that we are all sinners and God has the power to do whatever he wants to do to us. He adopts a furious tone to affect the reader's feelings and make them feel repentful and guilty. Edward starts his sermon by arguing that God is not required to keep…

The Development of Puritan New England and the evolution of Puritan theology in New England culminating in the Half-Way Covenant. Puritans shared the Protestant belief that the bible was the only authority for Christians. Roman Catholic practices and ceremonies were discounted as being unbiblical. Their belief that Christianity was based on an individual conviction and that the church was a community of individuals that shared the same religious convictions was the backbone of their…

The book of James it’s more than likely written by James the half-brother of Jesus, due to the time period that is believed the book of James was written. It is believed that book of James was written in the early 60’s A.D., which would make this James the half-brother Jesus, rather than the brother of John (sons of Zebedee). “Since the Brother of John was martyred very early, around 44 A.D. (Act 12:2), he is ruled.” At first, James, known as “The Just”, was a skeptic of Jesus, but he later…