Study Guide Module/Week 1: Introduction to Theology Textbook Readings: Towns: Introduction & Ch. 1 Introduction 1. How did the term “Christian” originate? Stated only 3 x’s in Bible Act 11:25‚ Act 26:28‚ 1 Peter 4:16. Started as sarcastic attack‚ refers to relationship with Christ. 2. Who was this book written for? Wrote for the Christian who want to know more. 3. Why do some have mistaken ideas about Christianity? They don’t understand it. Think that it is primary doctrine
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Covenant has a central place in the Christian religion. It is a relationship between us and God created by a pledge in which part has defined responsibilities. The type of covenant we are in with God is suzerainty. This simply means that God is our master and we are his slaves. Too many there might be a bad connotation in the master-slave analogy. However‚ I embrace the fact that god is my master and I am His slave. He will never do anything to harm me‚ knows my needs‚ will provide for me‚ and He
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St. Patrick was a fifth century British Christian missionary and is accredited with introducing Christianity to Ireland in 431-2 AD. However this is compromised by the fact that Palladius was the first recorded missionary to be sent to Ireland by pope Celestine to be bishop to the Irish Christian people. Patrick stated that Palladius failed his mission to spread the word to the people because he was hindered by God‚ however other external documents indicate that Palladius mission was very successful
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limit myself to the Ellen White’s book Steps to Christ and only in a limited way go beyond the message of the book to illustrate some of the points. In terms of Wesleyan theology I will not cover in detail the Wesleyan theology‚ but only its soteriological aspect. 1 Ellen White (1827-1915) the most prominent
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Something that Luther came to see as contradictory to the “sole fide” model because it focused on the old ideas of inner works and the sacraments emphasized within the Catholic Church. The ‘Law and Gospel’ became much of his focus in his early writings. “Therefore beware lest you make Christ into Moses‚ and the gospel into a book of law and doctrine‚ as has been done before now‚ including some of Jerome’s (hermit and biblical scholar) prefaces. In fact‚ however‚ the gospel demands no works to make
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to the plague that erupted in the middle of the 14th century. The medical term for the black death is the ‘bubonic plague’. It was mainly spread by rats. It began in the Gobi desert in the 1320s and it spread from there in every direction. There were population losses in Europe and among the Asian Nations. The Black Death’s effect on Indulgences In the climate of mass death‚ many Christians were eager to make sure that they were ready for death‚ if and when it came
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disagreements‚ arguments‚ broken relationships‚ hurt feelings‚ apologies‚ forgiveness—all of these are part of life as a Christian and as instruments for God’s hands to refine. So the question is this: If unity and peace are so vital to the witness of the church‚ yet their absence is so much a part of life‚ how do we then maintain them? Ken Sande‚ a lawyer and committed Christian and member of his church‚ presents in his book The Peacemaker. I have found this book to be a practical‚ up-to-date guidebook
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discuss the council’s decisions and teachings in relation to the sacraments and how the council has distinguished between the catholic understanding of sacraments and the protestant understanding of the sacraments. The term sacrament derives from the Latin sacramentum. In early Christian times a sacramentum was a sum of money which had to be given to the temple by both people involved in a lawsuit or contract and whoever lost the suit or broke the contract forfeited the money. It then later came to mean
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hard to imagine the sheer amount of faith necessary for the willingness to sacrifice one’s own safety for the sake of someone else. Various Christian witnesses have demonstrated this faith all throughout the millennia‚ including – probably most obviously – St. Joan of Arc or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. However‚ one man who perhaps best exemplifies absolute Christian faith and martyrdom in recent decades is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His life is the story of a man who essentially sacrificed an opportunity for
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the author of most of the New Testament‚ and the members of the earliest Christian churches were all Jews. Jesus’ family followed Jewish customs and Jesus frequently quoted the Hebrew Bible. Jesus’ followers believed him to be the messiah‚ a Jewish figure predicted in the Jewish Bible. Despite its Jewish origins‚ it was not long before Christianity regarded itself as something other than a new Jewish sect. The first Christian council‚ convened by the apostles‚ concluded that pagan converts to Christianity
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