World Methodist Council

Ecumenical Councils, settling disputes regarding the Holy Trinity, the duality of Christ, the question of grace, and other heresies. The baselines of these principles have resulted in various schisms, some of which are still prevalent today. From the Council of Arles in 314 AD to the Fourth Ecumenical…

about the segregation in Maycomb and how blacks are only allowed to inhibit certain areas as the church is ‘outside southern town limits.’ Harper Lee states this during the first chapter of part two showing that she has already plummeted into the world of prejudice and racism in Maycomb. The appearance of the First Purchase Church allows us to infer many things about the situation of prejudice and racism in Maycomb. Firstly, the name of the church itself tells us that after the freeing of the…

“The Bible, Africa, and the Church in the Postmodern Era” Another key point, as leaders, pastors, etc. there must be an understanding of the word “postmodern” in order to see the impact it has in African American churches today. If understanding correctly, postmodern thinking implies pleasing people rather than God is okay. In other words, forbidden things are acceptable now; having no biblical insight, denial of absolute and objective truth is the current fade, also to some God really don’t…

most of all never got to finish their lives they were so young. Denise McNair 11, Addie Mae Collins 14, Carole Robertson 14, Cynthia Wesley 14, Virgil Ware 13, Johnny Robinson 16. All of those children died that Sunday Morning with not a care in the world by three charged but one uncharged Klu Klux Klan Member. Bobby Frank Cherry,Thomas Blanton,Robert Chambliss, Herman Frank Cash. Robert was convicted of first degree murder and life in prison in 1977 and he later on died in 1985 in prison.…

feeling of connectively to all who sang along. Including, it is surmised, those around the world that identified with the words, reason and necessity for such a song at that moment in time. How ironic to sing a song, which was penned by a former white slaveholder, who turned abolitionist. And sing it in the state that was the lynchpin of the civil war. Clearly, the complexity of the most powerful man in world as he spoke of systemic oppression that has shaped the black experience in the United…

to become more outspoken and righteous. Around the turn of the century, one of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia, Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.) in…

Cecil Robeck’s The Azusa Street Mission and Revival offers the response of on African American church to the social and religious segregation we learned from last weeks reading of Methodists and the Crucible of Race. As a licensed Nazarene pastor, I enjoyed that we were also given a reading that revealed the Holiness movement’s response to the dark times of segregation in our country. In The Azusa Street Mission and Revival Cecil Robeck’s explains that the worship practices of the black church…

The Effects of the Third Ecumenical Council on the Representation of Marian Doctrine in the Fifth-Century Church According to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2014), an ecumenical council was “assembly convened to deliberate and decide on ecclesiastical doctrine and on other matters affecting the interests of the Christian church.” In the Early church, ecumenical councils were called to discuss and expound upon the doctrine being formed within the church. They centered around heresy and…

is tricky due to the rich history each country has. One of the major problems causing a lack of identity is that each country at one point was an empire. They were at the top of the food chain leading the world in discovery or simply conquering others by power. Germany had the Third Reich in World War II and Spain had the Spanish Empire which started in the late 15th century and ended in the late 20th century. A national identity can also work against the European Union because of this history.…

Considering all the of the above, we can appreciate that EU's public diplomacy is culture-focused. The promotion of languages and cultures are common tasks, but only because Europe's political role in the world was to be a shadow of American power. In the future European public diplomacy will have to be more political in order to support the EU's foreign policy and achieve a common political identity. Creating a European political identity would be possible…