Theology Essays and Research Papers

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Throughout human history, very few questions have been expanded upon and ripped apart as frequently as the existence of God. What is God? According to Judeo-Christian standards, God is the apotheosis of immanence, omnipotence, omnipresence, and righteousness. Regardless of one’s religion, which in turn, influences their perception of what God is, philosophers from all ages…

The aim of this essay is to address some of the key issues and theological approaches surrounding hate crime. Hate crime is when a perpetrator commits a crime which is prejudice-motivated due to the perpetrator’s perception of a person’s religion, race, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity (Washington State Democratic Party, 2017). Firstly, this essay…

In “The Existence of God,” Saint Thomas Aquinas presents five ways to prove that God exists. In his fourth argument, Aquinas states the “Argument from Gradation” as the following: Premise No. 1: If there is nothing perfectly good, then one object cannot be better than another. Premise No. 2: But some objects are better than…