Committee on Ministry October 1‚ 2012 Committee on Ministry Kansas-Oklahoma Conference Part One Personal Theology “Theology of Community” In this paper‚ I am going to share my ideas of theology. I believe that one of the biggest mistakes I made in the past was that I was afraid of being rejected‚ so I wrote a theology paper and tried to give the previous COM what I thought they wanted to hear instead of what was truly inside of me. Fortunately for me
Premium Christianity Jesus Christian terms
Christian theology. Unlike the dogmas that define the theology of trinity and incarnation and bring unity to Christian understanding‚ the theology of atonement has many different views that are widely held. The theology of atonement is one of the most important for Christians to understand‚ as it shapes our images of God‚ our understanding of salvation and how we are saved. In this essay‚ I will be looking at different theories of atonement and how they make a difference to our theology of salvation
Premium Jesus Christianity New Testament
Romeo and Juliet Emotional pain and suffering is unavoidable‚ especially when connected to love. Many examples can be noted through Romeo and Juliet’s relationship and experiences in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is deprived of relationships‚ loses his closest friend‚ and is grief-stricken by the news of Juliet’s death. Meanwhile‚ Juliet has no support or freedom from her family and is responsible for her true love’s real death. She seems to be in more distress throughout
Premium Romeo and Juliet
I. INTRODUCTION Election plays a very significant role in our lives. As the famous saying goes “No man is an island” we cannot but to belong to a community‚ we even belong to a family which is the basic unit of the community or society. Within the community in which we belong‚ in a broader sense‚ there has to be a leader who guides and direct his/her people. On the other hand‚ the people also have to choose a particular leader who is committed and competent enough or else there will be chaos and
Free Election Voting Voting system
Approach the word Hispanic is a controversial because in Latin American exists linguistic‚ ethnic‚ social‚ political‚ economic and weather differences‚ so it is not possible to speak of a uniform block. I am going to focus in Centro America and Mexico‚ because those groups are the ethnic majority in Boston. As is the common knowledge‚ Those countries were colonized by the Spain in the fifth century. These colonization brought a history of persecution and submission of the people whom originally
Premium Spanish language United States Spanish people
Descending Theology: The Resurrection The way poets use poetic devices help to create the meaning and hinder our understanding to their poem. Understanding a poem has mush to do with how it is read by the reader. If the poetic devices used by the poet when writing are over looked it is going to cause a much different understanding. “Descending Theology: The Resurrection” by Marry Karr uses many poetic devices to add to the depth of the poem. This poem is set up as a sonnet in closed form‚ using
Free Poetry
Theology Anointing of the sick 1. When should anointing of the sick be administered? Who may receive this sacrament? The anointing of the sick should only be administered when the person is dying or has a serious illness. Anyone who have received the sacrament of baptism and has reached the age of reason (age of seven) could receive this sacrament provided that he or she is in grave danger of death due to sickness or old age‚ not necessarily at the point of death. 2. How does the physical sickness
Premium Illness Holy Spirit Meaning of life
After experiencing immense suffering‚ a human is put in the state of mind in a state of no external desires‚ leading to contentment with just the basic necessities in life. Happiness in one’s life is vital to living a meaningful life. Without contentment inwith one’s life‚ there will always be something unsatisfied in their conscience. Frankl suffered gravely while in the concentration camps‚ and he finds an analogy to suffering‚ “If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber‚ it will
Premium Psychology Personal life Suffering
This quote reveals itself true in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov’s journey through suffering seems hopeless as he faces either a life in prison or a life of insanity. With both options seemingly devoid of any lasting relief or happiness‚ the protagonist learns that he still has an opportunity to live a satisfactory life‚ even after all of the wrong he has done and suffering he has went through. In the beginning of the novel‚ Dostoevsky introduces a very distressed and paranoid
Premium Meaning of life Hamlet Emotion
significant attention in the recent literature: the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation‚ and views on the nature of atonement. 1. Philosophy and Christian Theology Before we begin‚ it is worthwhile to consider in brief the general relationship between philosophy and Christian religious dogma. In the history of Christian theology‚ philosophy has sometimes been seen as a natural complement to theological reflection‚ while at other times the advocates for the two disciplines have regarded each
Premium God Jesus Trinity