Trinity

Everyone, including unbelievers, has his own mask which he makes and wears. This mask is used to cover up what is inside, sin. Even our appearances are used as masks. I believe this applies to not only believers. Another key theme in this book is grace in several of its different aspects. In April of 2016, I began working in the deli of a grocery store. I got to know my coworkers well for over four months. They all seemed to be doing well. Specifically, Marshall did his job well. He…

Religion is a word and feeling that is left up to the person to interpret. Even though there are countless closed-minded people that feel as if religion and the highest power can only be felt in one way and should only be expressed in the way that everyone else expresses it, there are innuerable ways for one religion to be felt and told. From the writers of Basavanna, Mahadeviyakka, and Augustine, it is shown that the same religion worshiping the same God can be told and represented in three…

Saint Augustine and Thomas Aquinas are most prominently known for their discussions of God and the happy life. For them, God is related to a happy life but that happy life is vastly different for them both. In this essay, I’ll discuss Augustine and Aquinas’s view on the happy life but specifically the role of friendship in achieving happiness. I will focus on Augustine’s De Beata Vita (DBV) and City of God (COG) and Aquinas’s Summa Theologicae (SV). First, I will discuss Augustines view of the…

In the introduction to Two Sisters in the Spirit, Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote: “the Church has received the promise of objective sanctity… that her divine mission is guaranteed until the end of time. But this in no way eliminates the obligatory vocation to subjective and personal sanctity, which is indeed the ultimate reason for her whole institutional and objective side.” This paper will delve into how Balthasar and Victoria Harrison, the author of “Personal Identity and Integration: Von…

1. What is the relationship between Scripture and the unwritten traditions? What is the contain of Scripture and Tradition? The relationship is that both were preached and practiced by the Apostles, who received their teaching from Jesus himself. Moreover, both, the Scripture and the unwritten tradition represent the truth of salvation and rule of conduct. The Scripture and the unwritten tradition are both considered vital and acceptable to the Catholic Church because they came from the…

Madison Lapsley Dr. King DWC 101-006 September 26, 2017 Monotheism’s Moral Order In Genesis, there is a single god, meaning that the story revolves around a monotheistic religion. In Atrahasis, there are several different gods, meaning that it revolves around a polytheistic religion. Because Genesis surrounds a singular god, there is a moral order. This is because with a singular God, there is a concrete way to live that is viewed as righteous. A universe with a true moral order revolves around…

Reverberation: How God’s Word Brings Light, Freedom, and Action to His People Jonathan Leeman’s Reverberation serves as a call for all in the pulpit and in the pews to renew their confidence in the authority and power of God’s Word. While Leeman acknowledges most church’s proverbial “lip service” to the importance of the Bible, he seeks to elevate the ministry of the Word as the ultimate ministry of the church. If God is for the growth of the church and not against it, then what is his…

The Age of Bede is book of five texts that are important sources of the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland during the sixth and seventh centuries. This text will focus on ideals from four of the five texts. These ideals are the Life of Saint Cuthbert, the Life of Wilfred, Benedict Biscop's contribution to English Christianity, Ceolfrith founding and heading the monastery of Jarrow, how English monks and Bishops contacts with the continent and papacy affected English…

In my youth, I was reared in Lutheran home and was attended a Christian school until the eighth grade. It was stable home life and completely constructed upon the foundation of Jesus Christ. Both of my parents frequently reminded me to always look for positive potential in every person. I believe the Christian education through the church and mission work will ensure my complete effectiveness as a Christian counselor. During the ages of twenty through thirty-six, I went through a…

There needs to be a resolution revolution! The time has come, we must stop making promises in the flesh, we cannot keep. We must start seeking God on what pleases Him, and find out what His will for our lives is. We can proclaim all day and night that we are going to lose more weight, stop addictions, stop gossiping less, or find a mate. In truth, we can do none of those things in the flesh, which is why our New Year 's resolutions tend to fail. Its the same every year, WE make a plan for…