by David N. Entwistle provides an insightful overview of worldview issues‚ philosophical foundations‚ and a comprehensive view of five models of integration. The author focused on psychology and Christianity and the integration of psychology and theology based on a biblical worldview. How do Christians relate and navigate the two worlds of Christianity and science collectively or as a whole? The first three sections delve into the many different and connected parts of psychology and Christianity
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The aim of this short essay is to illustrate Anselm’s doctrine Cur Deus Homo‚ in reference to his interpretation of the atonement and then relate it to the characteristic claims of the Chalcedonian creed regarding Jesus Christ as one person to be recognized in two nature’s’. Anselm’s theory on atonement is that of a philosophical one which he believes should be understood as a necessity. Anselm’s doctrine‚ Cur Deus Homo’ which is translated as why God became a man (human being)’‚ and the motive
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Why is natural law an inappropriate approach to ethics in the 21st century? Natural law‚ its critics claim‚ produces no certain knowledge. It is more often merely the rhetorical projection of whatever a person firmly believes but finds them self unable to prove. Appeals to natural law never solve moral conflict. People on the left and the right side of natural law come to conclusions that contradict each other on things such as marriage. Therefore it is better to find a clearer‚ more widely
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I assumed that the pursuit of happiness was goal everyone aimed at. It wasn’t till I read Bonhoeffer’s theology that I realized that some people are in the pursuit of unhappiness. In an excerpt from an unpublished novel that he wrote in prison‚ Bonhoeffer states the complexity of happiness and unhappiness. "Take care not to speak lightly of happiness and not to flirt with unhappiness!…It is not so easy to be unhappy‚ and may he who truly is not despise and revile him who is happy. Why would you take
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people and pray for them without having received the authority to do so. And the pantry is not ‘church’; you need a valid liturgy and authorized clerics for that. Sara has simply allowed her leftist politics‚ concern for outcasts‚ and the ‘liberation theology’ of Jesuits like Martin-Baro to overcome her good sense. People need rules; that’s why we have them in the first place. If we don’t have rules‚ people will do whatever they want‚ and then where will we be?” The rules was created with the purpose
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On October 31‚ A nervous young man named Martin Luther climbed up the cathedral’s stairs and nailed his ninety-five grievances against a corrupt church. Martin Luther’s defiance sparked off the Protestant Reformation‚ an event that forever turned the world upside down and changed the landscape of religion. At the same time‚ a bright eight-year-old child began his studies in classical philosophy; a study that involved in-depth studies in Plato and Aristotle. This child‚ John Calvin‚ became simply
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Summary: Dr. Gregory Boyd is a professor of theology at Bethel College. He attended such universities as the University of Minnesota‚ Yale Divinity School‚ and Princeton Theological Seminary. As well as being a professor he is a preaching pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul‚ Minnesota‚ and has authored three books and several articles. This particular book is a dialogue between he and his father‚ Edward Boyd. Edward lives in Florida and worked for 35 years in sales management. He has
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1|Page Background The Shahnameh or Shah-nama "The Book of Kings") is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 AD and is the national epic of the Iran (Persia) and the Persian speaking world. Consisting of some 50‚000 verses‚[1] the Shahnameh tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian empire from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century. Today Iran‚ Persian speakers of the neighboring
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allowing effective therapy‚ where the therapist becomes a type of shepherd that invites the client into the goodness of God and introduces Christ as his savior. Psychology attempts to understand‚ describe‚ and diagnose human behavior but Christian theology seeks to understand “what it means to be human” (Entwistle‚ 2010‚ p. 3). In the end Entwistle (2010) reoccurring theme throughout the book is that this integration is possible because “all truth is God’s truth” (p. 13). All the reasoning‚ precise
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