Theology Essays and Research Papers Page 3

According to Schleiermacher, being is based at absolute world unity, the “whole”, or God. Everything depends on God, but this dependence is expressed in the general connection of nature, and not in revelation or grace since God is not a person. Schleiermacher uses the expressions “God”, “world spirit”, “world whole” as synonyms. God’s activity is…

Biblical Interpretation? Everyone who reads the bible is an interpreter, but no reader of the bible interprets the bible from a neutral posture. Regardless of one’s racial, ethnic, gender, generational, social, or intellectual postures, every bible reader brings baggage to the text. This baggage can either help or hinder one’s ability to arrive at what…

Currently with a growing body of research on the topic of evil, it may be interesting to become acquainted with the definitions of evil from theology to psychology. These definitions affect how individuals perceive evil as a concept, leading them to experience it on their own terms. Theology takes evil seriously, bringing light upon the…

Different religions are created when man decides that a belief that a church may say isn’t what thy think is right. Throughout history we have many leaders who began a reformation and created a religion they believe is truest. Martin Luther created Lutheranism, John Calvin created Calvinism, the radicals created Anabaptism, Spiritualism and Unitarianism. But…

Many ideas of the Renaissance like humanism, individualism and secularism stimulated a strong critique of the churchs policy and the clergys behaviour. Many people regarded it as a scandal that the catholic church sold indulgences. Indulgences were documents, stamped by the church which could reduce your sins. People who bought indulgences believed that this document…

The discovery of life on another planet might seem incompatible with faith in a deity. Yet many theologians are already open to the existence of extra-terrestrials. Television pundit Stephen Colbert put it best in an interview with Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno: “If we accept that there is alien life on other planets, doesn’t that…

Service is the action a person takes to help others. There are different kinds of services like Community Service and Christian Service. Community Service is helping in your community, schools, church, individuals, or organizations. Christian Services is the act of doing work for God. It could be sharing the gospel or even spreading the word…

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 Sophocles’s Greek playwright of Antigone, the wise Teiresias talks about the sins and mistakes that men take a part of. He describes of the generalization that “all men make mistakes” but then the fact that what differentiates a good man from a bad man is that the good man knows what to do when…

Introduction Theological dialogue can be referred to as dialogue about the foundation of being itself, the Absolute, God. The foundation of the dynamics of dialogue lies at the root of the human being and is shown in the existential analysis of the human being himself, as modern philosophers have pointed out. It has been pointed…