Theology

develops as spiritual theology. Evident in Ronald Modras’ Ignatian Humanism: A Dynamic Spirituality for the 21st Century, Patrick Byrne’s “The Passionateness of Being: The Legacy of Bernard Lonergan”, and Bernard Lonergan’s “Method in Theology” and “Healing and Creating in History”, I will focus on how self-reflexivity as cultivated alongside academic theology manifests in a form that heals and creates, rather than one that hates and destroys. Plurality as applied to academic theology functions…

Over the years there has been many different views on if there is sufficient evidence to support belief in God. There have been many philosophical thinkers who have looked into this controversy. Is there a God and if there is how can we prove this is true? There were many philosophical thinkers that had an opinion on this topic, some of the most important in stating sufficient evidence proving gods existence were Saint Augustine, Saint Anslem, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Saint Augustine was…

Ivor J. Davidson, a Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand, compares the sinlessness of Jesus Christ from a biblical viewpoint by providing a clarification of the moral characteristics found in Jesus Christ. In addition, this particular article provides a set of questions, that answers the modernism, idealism, contemporanism, and liberalism ideologies. In this article, Davidson describes the Sinlessness of Christ with the following…

faith in Christ did not begin until after his first dissertation was published. Communing of the Saints with the subtitle- “A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church” was a “virgin” endeavor to link the disciplines of both sociology and theology in the structures of the church (Dramm. 68) Although Bonhoeffer explains the issues of the church to be sociological, he explains that the church can only be truly understood from the inside out with “wrath and affection” His doctoral work focus…

My Theology Theology is the study of the nature of God or religious belief. I did not know what Theology was until freshmen year of college when I found out that it is a required course I have to take to graduate. Though I have found out that through going church, college, and Bible studies with my friends that I study God every time I read the Bible. I have studied the nature of God and how he relates to the world, but never have I thought of it has being theological. My parents introduced me…

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 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote a memorial in which he stated that Nash…

ago. Although there has been this rich history of service in the Mennonite denomination, there has been little work done on the theology of Mennonite service. However, since the conception of Harold S. Bender’s The Anabaptist Vision, in the 1940s, Mennonites have increasing speculated and then developed ideas behind Mennonite service theology. Bender’s influence on theology dominates many of the ideas of older texts and even plays a large role in some of the more recent texts from the 1990s and…

In Bonaventure’s The Journey of the Mind to God, chapters 1-2 the author describes the steps in the Ascent to God and the Consideration of Him through his Vestiges in the Universe. Chapter one basically focuses more on the external world and their characteristics. The author used these things as a mirror to show the readers the power, wisdom and goodness of God. It gives us a description of the first step of the ladder on the journey of the mind to God. To be able to strive up to God an…

“Before we can hope to reason correctly, we need God’s grace to transform our minds” (Jones p.13). Growing up with a Catholic background, I never knew much about what theology was. I had heard stories about the study of theology, but never practiced the understanding of the things of God. I grew up in a traditional Catholic background and was baptized when I was very young. I had the support of my family to attend church and have a relationship with God. On my mom 's side, I am a 5th generation…

Kevin Vanhoozer shares some affinity with Barth and Placher as well. His separation of theology and ethics I find most interesting because his premise, that scripture and its subsequent doctrine can best be understood as a script for dramatic performance. And yet somehow Vanhoozer separates the script and 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…