Theology

Wright’s missional hermeneutic, and he addressed the question: “How can systematic theology be used to reach people cross culturally?” Despite language barriers, different cultures communicate in different ways. Therefore, complexities will obviously arise from ministering in a cross cultural context. The proposed “solution” for this issue is an adjustment from focusing on a systematic theology to biblical theology as a point of view that focuses on the narrative of Christ and God’s mission to…

by Studs Terkel, moving from work into theology, as opposed to moving from philosophy and theology into work. And, the people whose stories Terkel recorded in his work hardly describe a human activity that could be the subject of soaring theology. Hardy even acknowledges in his book, “If the interviews conducted…

sometimes have different meanings or words due to language barriers. How can we, at a whole, truly understand His gospel and be resorted by God’s Spirit? There are different branches of theology, such as: biblical theology, historical theology, philosophical theology, practical theology and systematic theology. Wolters…

to Psychology and Christianity: An Introduction to Worldview Issues, Philosophical Foundations, and Models of Integration, the author David N. Entwistle (2010) discusses the relationship between psychology and theology. Entwistle (2010) explores the potential for both psychology and theology to work together as a harmonious approach. The text gives an in-depth look into many opposing arguments about integration and if the two are possible or even needed. The reader receives a profound…

The co-authors of 20th Century Theology, Stanley Grentz & Roger Olson developed in the contemporary age and how they saw the divine transcendence and divine immanence, from the Evangelical point of view. Evangelical theology has had some rough road it had to stay balance accordingly to, the divine transcendence and divine immanence of its biblical truth. The authors are thinkers of the twentieth century the task of the magnitude of how theology has become a voice of the transcendence…

Introduction: Shame in the church has long been a pronounced interest to me. We want the church to be a place of hope and inspiration, but some of us have experienced a tremendous amount of shame, also. Growing up within a very conservative Holiness church taught me some life-giving valuable faith lessons. Yet, some of these lessons include, what not to do as a pastor or church member. Shame stops a person and/or the organization from growing into the person/group God has called him/her/them…

another famous Christian author, C. S. Lewis, and eventually committed his life to Christian service where he spent a brief times teaching in different places and eventually ended up back in Oxford to study theology, then later he became the Regent College Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology in 1996. Soon after receiving this title Packer began his writing of Knowing God and it became a great success, much due to his previous lengthy experience in Christian studies. Summary In the book…

these then there would be nothing. There are two cities Babylon, and Jerusalem One of the cities was about love or self and the other was about love about God in neighbor. There are two different types which is the reason for philosophy and theology. Theology is mainly about love, faith, and religion. Philosophy is about reason through science than faith in God. This section was about conversion and also his conversion and if God exists and evil in the world but eternity is a different matter.…

author Gustavo Gutiérrez. I can only begin to describe why. Theology much like any other philosophy is simply a way of critical thinking of certain criteria, especially the aspect of human behavior and actions. It is an educated way of approaching the way we think and the why we act the way we act. Theological reflection can be summarized as an understanding of faith. We can this a tool to maintain …the church we must approach…

languish. Liberation Theology has its roots in the city slums and poverty of Latin America. It is a theology that highlights the power of God, who is found sharing the brokenness of the lives of both individual people as well as communities. Liberation theology is a theology which is concerned more with orthopraxis – living out the struggle – than with orthodoxy – having the right beliefs. Rebecca Chopp (1997, cited in Woodward & Pattison, 2000, p165) defines liberation theology as: ‘..…