each sentence seems to come with it’s own fascinating history‚ with varying contexts lying between each line. Beginning with Proto-Isaiah‚ chapters 1-39 are thought to have been greatly written by Isaiah‚ while consisting of “oracles and eschatology” (Alter 165). Beginning the early period of Isaiah’s ministry at 3:1-15‚ Isaiah describes the “social integration of Jerusalem” (Hastings 426). Without divulging too greatly into the historical context of chapter 7 quite yet‚ Proto-Isaiah addresses
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and theologians say about hell? One of the first theologians to document his understanding of hell was Ignatius of Antioch back around 90 AD. Ignatius believed in the existence of hell as an unquenchable fire. There was very little mentioned of eschatology from theologians of early times because it was not their main focus. They were still studying the main subjects and religion in general and did not go into too much depth in regards to hell. However‚ he still believed strongly in the final judgment
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The Importance of the Logos Christology in the Gospel of John John wrote the immortal words of the Prologue into a desperately troubled world. The Romans held most of the known world in their political grasp. The Greeks had infiltrated every part of Jewish life with their philosophies and ways for over 500 years; the Jewish obsession with ethnic purity divided the race even from itself. One key issue Jew and Greek could agree on was the existence of the Logos‚ though not in the same way. To the
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The word Apocrypha has come into the English language from the Greek [απόκρυφα] “apokruphos” and basically means hidden. It was used very early in the sense of secretive or concealed‚ but was also used in reference to a book whose origin was doubtful or unknown. Eventually the word took on the meaning of non-canonical‚ and thus for centuries the non-canonical books have been known as apocryphal books. Yet in Protestant circles "the apocrypha" is the normal designation for those extra books
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Humanity is the Devil: Faith and the Responsibility for Evil Every religious movement faces the contradictions posed by the existence of evil in a universe supposedly under the dominion of a loving and benevolent God. It is one of the most debilitating questions posed to every faith‚ in fact‚ and requires rationalization in imaginative ways. Explanations vary from attributing the presence of evil as a test presented to humanity by God to sift out the worthy from the masses‚ a challenge conjured
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The golden age of Islamic (and/or Muslim) art lasted from 750 to the 16th century‚ when ceramics‚ glass‚ metalwork‚ textiles‚ illuminated manuscripts‚ and woodwork flourished. Lustrous glazing was an Islamic contribution to ceramics. Islamic luster-painted ceramics were imitated by Italian potters during the Renaissance. Manuscript illumination developed into an important and greatly respected art‚ and portrait miniature painting flourished in Persia. Calligraphy‚ an essential aspect of written Arabic
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In Between the World and Me‚ last year’s celebrated epistolary memoir‚ Ta-Nehisi Coates centers the bodies of black folk and their struggle against the grain of America’s racial cosmology. Written in a posture of intimacy‚ Coates reflects on the hypervisibility of his raced body: “by now I am accustomed to intelligent people asking about the condition of my body without realizing the nature of their request.” Beneath his own struggle‚ Coates questions what the inheritance and heritage of an anti-black
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some familiarity with and reminds his readers of the story of Jesus’ suffering and death; and he develops the importance of Christ’s passion in context related to all aspects of his apostolic message especially his soteriology and Christology‚ eschatology and ethics. The atoning death of Christ is the work Christ did in his life and death to earn us salvation. The New Testament provides a rich and joyous expression of the work of Christ through his death to atone for the sins of mankind. “God
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*Sense experiences/depth experiences: not limited by the empirical data-the really "real" is not necessarily able to be seen. *Religious Experience (depth experience): Not just a sense experience‚ an experience that causes people to change‚ always touches on the "other" (the transcendent)-that which goes beyond our understanding (anything that we can come up with) (ie..who can really explain the sunset?). *Orthopraxis (Right-practice): The process of doing the right things. *Orthodoxy: Believing
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“thrust of the New Testament revelation‚” there is the thought that “the death and resurrection of Christ constituted a fulfillment (or rather‚ the fulfillment) of the Day of the Lord concept.” C.H. Dodd was an ardent proponent of this realized eschatology movement‚ which is also referred to as the ‘preterist approach.’ “Jesus’ message was not a future coming and a future kingdom; rather‚ with the advent of Jesus‚ the kingdom of God had already arrived.” The study and preponderance of
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