“Catholic Answers” breakdowns the definition of Heresies in Monophysitism .Therefore, it supplies its reader with a clear understand of the topic at hand. Monophysitism originated as a reaction to Nestorianism. The Monophysites (led by a man named Eutyches) were horrified by Nestorius’s implication that Christ was two people with two different natures (human and divine). They went to the other extreme, claiming that Christ was one person with only one nature (a fusion of human and divine elements). They are thus known as Monophysites because of their claim that Christ had only one nature (Greek: mono = one;…
One of the greatest shortcomings of the heresy-rationalist apologetic approach is its argumentative approach. (3) As a result, "apologetic debates rarely lead unbelievers or apostates to convert; they do not succeed in persuading Christians to abandon their new beliefs to return to the faith of their birth. Instead,…
Write 2-3 sentences explaining how the three passages immediately above might shape the Christian worldview:…
5. What can Christians do to address these objections and better communicate the Christian gospel?…
James Naismith does the name mean anything? Well it should, because of Naismith we have the game basketball. Naismith was born in Almont, Ontario, and was educated at McGill University and Presbyterian College in Montreal. Naismith was the physical education teacher at McGill University from 1887 to 1890 and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts 1890 to 1895 (Bellis). It wasn’t until 1890 that Naismith was given the job to create a new game by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, the director of the physical education department (McCuaig).…
1.) According to the edicts of February 380 and May 391, what is the status of heretical Christians- those who do not accept the orthodox (correctly taught) form of christianity?…
The exhilarating novel centers on a little girl named Anita de la Torre, and her life as the infamous dictator Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic. Anita is a character that strongly portrays the traits of innocence and naiveness. She goes to school at the American school in the Dominican Republic. The school has a picture of “El Jefe” hanging up and Anita seems to look up to him as a person: she believes that one day she will be greeted by him as “the girl who never cries”. However, as the secrets of El Jefe unfold, Anita discovers that he tortures and makes many Dominicans “disappear”. Half of her family has fled to the United States when it was safe and the other half had to remain in hiding. Secret police called SIM, invade the compound that Anita and her family live in and restrict the children from normal activities like school. On Anita’s sister’s fifteenth birthday party, El Jefe arrives and shows interest in her, in order to keep her safe she is sent to the United States.…
Bibliography: Beilby, James. Thinking about Christian apologetics: what is is and why we do it. Downers Gove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2011.…
The early Church was birthed through perseverance against intense persecution: (i) physical persecution by the governments of the time which lauded the oppression, imprisonment, torture and death of Christians for their new religious doctrines; and (ii) intellectual persecution by opposing religious sects who sort to denounce the doctrines of Christianity. The Prescription Against Heretics was written in response to the latter – to defend the tenets of Christianity against the false teachings of heretics and religious-based philosophers. Heretics promoted controversial views which were in opposition to those offered by Christian doctrine, with the intention of creating followers of their beliefs. Religio-philosophers were quasi-Christians who promoted the use of intellect and logic to understand Christianity and in doing so, never becoming Christians. Tertullian saw the end of philosophy as heresy and categorizes both as the same. Tertullian defends Christianity by describing heresies as powerless, fallible and only expressive of a lack of faith; he therefore provides a rule of faith as a measure and the authority for Christianity.…
Distinguish between the historical aspect of salvation (salvation accomplished) and the applied aspect of salvation (salvation applied).…
The foundation of Christian orthodoxy and canon are so entwined so that you cannot have one without the other; both drawing support from the other to establish details and outline its parameters. In the years that followed after the death of the apostles, there was a desire by the early Christian movement to consolidate, catalogue, and share the teachings of Jesus among the churches. Before there could be a collection of important writings however, there needed to be an agreement on what was considered worthy of high regard, useful for teaching, and what could be verified as legitimate or apostolic in nature, this would provide for foundation of what was to be considered canonical literature. These early attempts of establishing the canon also required the defining of orthodoxy. Today we recognize the definition of orthodoxy as the “acceptance of the truth, especially about Jesus Christ, that is revealed by the Holy Spirit in the gospel and is passed on through the teaching of sound doctrine.”…
1. The contribution to Christianity of ONE significant person OR school of thought, other than Jesus, drawn from:…
The fundamental difference between Christianity and humanism is in their attitude toward the transcendent, toward what might be called the vertical dimension of existence. In the parlance of theology, Christianity is fundamentally theonomous, and humanism is autonomous. As we have already indicated, Christianity with its goal of the salvation of man, relies ultimately upon grace, whereas humanism with its goal of human maturity relies ultimately upon the intuition and ethical will of self-sufficient and independent human nature. It has often been asserted that Christianity is heteronomous and that the humanism that accepts Christianity must also become heteronomous by submitting to an authority “anterior, superior and exterior” to itself. In this connection, a very important distinction must be made, a distinction often overlooked by Roman Catholics and orthodox Protestants and also by many exponents of humanism. The Christian movement arose as a protest against heteronomy, i.e., as a protest against rabbinical legalism and the heteronomy of the Jewish law. It did not call men to the absolute obedience of any earthly authority, any institution, or any man. It confronted men with the necessity of recognizing the inbreaking kingdom of God through its herald, Jesus Christ, and also with the demand for a change of heart in order that this kingdom might be fulfilled. Both the heteronomy of…
We can analyze the similarities and divergences between the Gospel of John and the Synoptic Gospel of Mark with Christology, Anthropology, Soteriolgy, and Eschatology. Even though many of the passages could refer to more than just one theology, it is achievable to separate the different theologies into the four categories. Regardless of how different the Gospel of John is to that of Mark, Matthew, and Luke, it can be concluded that John does have obvious relations to the Gospel of Mark, even though it was written much earlier.…
Since the fifth century we have been able to count ten of the major persecutions in the early Christian church which are:…
