Running head: EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY Evangelical Theology Dianna Barr 440-527-8677 Grand Canyon University Contemporary Theology - HTH 469 May 23, 2011 Evangelical Theology Stanley Grenz and Roger Olsen co-authored 20th Century Theology – God and the World in a Transitional Age (1992). The book gives their interpretation of the way religious theology developed in a modern age and how they saw divine transcendence and immanence, especially from the Evangelical viewpoint. Grenz & Olsen Chapter Ten – Evangelical Theology Evangelical theology had a tough assignment. It had to stay balanced between divine transcendence and divine immanence while discerning factual biblical truths. To do this it also had to stay within the
Mad Men, Misogyny and Madison Avenue Lauren Goodlad’s essay, Why We Love “Mad Men”, focuses on characterization of Donald Draper, a mysterious ad man who embodies miscontrived notions of masculinity, while balancing the contrasting roles of fatherhood and playboy. She claims that the rotating cast of characters that surround Don Draper and fragile situations that each of those characters inherit, is what makes Mad Men so captivating. The essay then address the tropes that make Mad Men so addictive, but it is fundamentally bankrupt when it comes to explaining what Don Draper is truly a symbol for. Goodlad’s essay is opens with her talking about her feminist aversion to men like Don Draper. She continues by addressing masculinity in a modern sense and brings up the idea that men are now dramatizing ones passions as opposed to shunning it, hiding it in the recesses of their identities.
* “Do you know who makes good first impressions? Liars.” * "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad * "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see." Winston Churchill * "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
He even admitted his evilness to himself stating to Dimmesdale, "I have already told you what I am a fiend!" (Hawthorne 158). The ever growing corruption and evil inside of Chillingworth collided with the good that Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl were bringing into the world. Hawthorne hints the innate nature of the good and evil of both sides towards the end of the novel, by describing that Chillingworth is viewed badly by the town but Dimmesdale and Hester are viewed as good people. It is in this way that Roger Chillingworth's specific use in the novel is to portray the conflict good versus evil.
If the creations are indeed “more human, than human” what defines our humanity? The replicants are portrayed as the violent antagonist only once compared to the humans (Tyrell) do they become admirable. While the death of Tyrell confronts the audience the close up on Roy's face shows the agony he is in. He doesn’t enjoy the killing but believes that his father must pay for his sins, pay for all the pain he has cause to him and his friends. Such violence is really only the cause of Roy’s pain, his emotions controlling his actions conflicts with our prejudice.
Mary Shelley demonstrates this concept through Victor’s pursuit for knowledge, caused by the change of values between the Romantic Era and the Age of Enlightenment. As electricity was discovered, Victor’s admiration for the subject of Galvanism provides him a “thirst for knowledge”, reinforced by his “longing to penetrate the secrets of nature”. This sexual allusion emphasises Victor’s loss of Romantic values which ultimately leads to an extremely arrogant attitude where he “bestows animation upon lifeless matter” and creates the “hideously deformed” monster that metaphorically represents the greed that blinds him. Its horrific actions, namely the killing of people closest to Victor, force him to finally realize that they “died by my hands”. Thus, Shelley warns that the destructiveness of Man’s intrinsic desires for knowledge stems from the change in values.
Holden once again notices Sunny’s humane nature when she says, “ like fun you are”, instead of saying a more bitter response (Salinger pg.94). Holden repeatedly said he felt “sad”, thinking of Sunny “going in a sore and buying” the green dress, who would unexpectedly and sadly be used for prostitution (Salinger pg. 95) As Holden got more personal with Sunny, she revealed her actions before “going to work”. Holden begins to imagine Sunny in her day hours, thinking of her as a person instead of a whore. As Holden got closer to sex he tried to be more societal with her, to forbear sexual relations , and to talk to her instead: “I said I’d pay you for coming and all” (Salinger pg.
Greed Human is superficially perceived as a virtuous species. However, the inner nature of humanity is distinctively gruesome. It could be adequately defined as: atrocity at its best. The Matrix, directed by The Brothers Wachowski, highlights the gluttonous and possessive behaviours of humankind, deriving that the nature of greed is the source of humanity’s downfall. Human beings are contemptuous gluttons, constantly desiring for additional possessions.
“Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.” (pg.139) Chillingworth has become an entirely evil man with no regard to anything other than the thoughts of vengeance. He is not the same man that he was prior to that. He is a depressed, deformed old man filled with a devilish spirit that cannot be tamed. He is an angry, bitter man until the day that he
God’s pleasure, His will, is what holds us up, until He knows that a heart is so hard that He will let go and let us slip into the hell we have earned by our own hands. Then the sinner is no more a thought of God, but is something under His feet (authorsden.com). To illustrate his point, Edwards writes “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire” (431). Damnation and the wrath of God remain the final judgment against anyone who turns away from the word of