Theology Essays and Research Papers

While themes of empowerment and deliverance can be found throughout Christian theology, it is clear that they hold a unique place within Pentecostalism and the Theology of Liberation, two traditions that emphasize both the spiritual and material nature of salvation. From the earliest days of the Pentecostal movement, adherents celebrated a sense of personal and…

Throughout history, there have always been groups of people who have been unfairly discriminated against. Some typical reasons for discrimination include race, ethnicity, economic status, gender, sexual orientation, and even disabilities. In India, there is a group of people, referred to as Dalits, that are heavily discriminated against based on economic and social standing. They…

Why do we need Theology? Why should we practice it and who is it even for? These major themes are discussed in by Grenz and Olson’s Who Needs Theology? An Invitation to the Study of God. The authors explain their motivation by observing that “Many Christians today not only are uninformed about basic theology but…

Summary of Text In Postcolonial Imagination & Feminist Theology, Kwok Pui-Lan draws from the insight of post-colonial theory to critique the tangled relationship between Christianity and colonialism. While Kwok acknowledges that “the Western theological tradition is not monolithic,” she argues that many of its theological projects are laden with imperializing structures and biases because they…

“Suffering naturally gives rise to doubt. How can one believe in God in the face of such horrendous suffering as slavery, segregation, and the lynching tree?” Since a young age James Cone went through life changing experiences that have molded his future. In his community of black churches on the rise also was the reality…

Since our first parents, humankind has struggled with learning about and knowing God, the one who is being. He seems so far, so vast, unintelligible; how could we properly speak and know of him, and is that even possible at all? However, we have found the possibility for proper theology: God, through the gift of…

John Milbank’s, Theology & Social Theory, “takes on all of the major social theorists and evaluates them from a Christian theological perspective” (Meneses). Milbank’s work starts with   the statement, “Once, there was no ‘secular’” (p. 9). Next, Milbank continues with his critiques of the modernist construction of the secular. He discusses the ways in which…

”May the Force be with you,“ Through his Star Wars films, director George Lucas immortalized this benediction in American culture, Originally released in 1977 by 20‘“ Century Fox, the first film in the series, Star Wars, was followed by two sequels in 1980 and 1983‘ Over a decade later, a prequel trilogy of films was…

The opening paragraph of Jonathon Edward’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is marked as a “fire and brimstone“ sermon because it uses strong images to describe sinners being damned to eternal perdition in order to encourage redemption Jonathon Edwards was a preacher of the Puritan faith and became one of the leaders…

From the integrative work, we found out that shame/guilt and acceptance/ forgiveness are fundamentally different both in theory and reality. They are separate emotions: shame displays how we feel about ourselves whereas guilt is the acknowledgement of hurting someone through our actions. Shame is a result of bad feeling about ourselves, making us feel disappointed…