explode out into the world. He wants people to see him for who he really is. For seven years‚ Dimmesdale is silent‚ and his health declines as a result. Today‚ he might be considered depressed and that it is so bad that it becomes fatal. In Christian theology‚ sin leads to death unless an individual accepts God’s free gift of forgiveness. In Dimmesdale’s case‚ the sin he does not confess in essence drives him to his demise. The Reverend Dimmesdale represents a weak man who sins but fails to accept
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IS DIVINE REVELATION A VALID SOURCE FOR THEOLOGY? Lim K Tham What is Revelation? Our starting point is to understand the concept of revelation. A simple definition of revelation is this: revelation is the disclosure or unveiling of something that has been concealed. It is the lifting of an obscuring veil‚ so as to disclose something that was formerly hidden. It is of a different order from our ordinary matter-of-fact knowing of the world in that the initiative lies with that which is known
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understanding of men but not physically. To him natural theology and science have no connection. God’s existence is not to discover God’s existence by reason but just to use reason to understand what one believes in. Human mind is too limited to contain God’s profundity. It is sufficient to accept there is God. Anselm maintained that faith must precede reason – one must believe in order to understand; faith‚ however‚ can be based on reason. For Christian dogmas were indisputable truth‚ he‚ however‚ held
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that we accept without absolute proof. Religion is something that cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt‚ which raises the question addressed in the debate between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens‚ is it more reasonable to believe in theology? Craig would argue that it is more reasonable to believe in God based on evidence supported by his five “topics of discussion”: cosmology‚ teleology‚ mortality‚ the resurrection of Jesus‚ and the immediate experience of God. Hitchens‚ on the other
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suffering and his inability to trust in a God who could let his daughter be treated in such a horrifying way. A friend of mine recommended the book and told me that I should read it. I was a little skeptical at first being that I’m not a big fan of theology and was afraid that it would change my beliefs not to mention the fact that I’m not very religious at all. Coincidently a few weeks after that‚ Young was a guest speaker at our church. He talked about what inspired him to write the book and how it
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perform according to the scriptures. Even then‚ the question of God’s gender in this article while ’made invalid’ due to God’s “motherhood” still pronounces the “male divine” being that ’God’ even from a Christian viewpoint due to the Jewish patriarchal nature of the Old Testament being that Jewish Theology is heavy on male transcendence. Judaism sees patriarchy as the mandate of giving life and of making reality - women need the male to “be heavy with child”‚ to look after the family‚ to carry the line
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Jaterica Shotwell May 5‚ 2012 Final Paper Womanist Theology Womanist theologians see the “Female Christ” as themselves. They see Christ as an African American female‚ because Christ was oppressed the most just like African American women. The ideology of a womanist is for them to have equality. They want their voice to be heard. They do not want to be the doormat or the surrogate because Christ was the surrogate for them. He died for their sins so they did not have to
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What happens after death has been a debated and documented topic dating back to shortly after the death of Jesus Christ. It is basically impossible to get certain evidence to back up beliefs. We are forced to rely on religious material and theologians to paint a picture for us. Even then it is hard to truly grasp what happens after death. It is proposed that you either go to heaven‚ or you go to hell. What do we actually know of the latter? The general consensus of society is that hell is a place
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Bibliography: Elwell‚Walter A. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology Towns‚Elmer L. Theology for Today
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and their relationships begin to fill the “pages” of their mind and lives. So there is a sense in psychology that people are akin to “self-creating social organisms” that interact with people and systems around them. From the perspective of Christian spirituality‚ identity questions are phrased in terms of the spirit‚ in terms of the God-breathed life. Recall the image in Genesis where God forms Adam from
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