Constantans conversion helped Christianity in many ways. The Christian leaders where given many gifts and his followers where safe from persecution. He was who made Sunday an official roman holiday this made it so more could go to church. He also believed that the church and state should be closed. He built the church Nativity in Bethlehem and Mount Mariah in Jerusalem.
In my opinion a Symbol narrows down a broad and endless topic like what God represents, to one thing or few things. A symbol generates the intrinsic meaning that causes a reaction from within us and from this we can gain a full understanding. To say a symbol can provide a meaningful way to talk about God is strong in some aspects. For example, from my experiences of going to church, when I re-collect what it is like to go to Church, I automatically think of a warm, inviting place which is open to forgiveness and gives every walk of life the freedom to express themselves. This emotion inside me and outlook is created I think of a Church.
Liberty Theological Seminary Book Critique on Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ Submitted to Dr. Christopher Moody in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of this course THEO530- B02LUO Systematic Theology II June 26, 2015 Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………....3 Summary………………………………………………………………………………………….3 Critique ………………………………………………………………………………………..…4 Conclusion ………... ………………………………………………………………………….…7 Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………………..9 Introduction In their book, Believer’s Baptism, the authors Schreiner and Wright attempt to incorporate their views on why baptism is essential in the Christian church. Along with its importance they also go further by promoting the believer’s baptism over infant baptism. They begin by attacking the Christian claim found among many that baptism is a trivial issue. They quickly negate this statement with an alternate point of view, that Christians who suffered persecution and martyrdom did not believe it to be so. Summary Placing aside the foreword and introduction, there are ten chapters or sections to this book.
The laypeople began to further mold the “practice of Catholicism to meet their needs” which “laid the groundwork for the response of the Latin American church to the Second Vatican Council” or Vatican II (159). Societies became more secular while the institutional church began to struggle to have a place in society. Conformity once again was the method of the church maintaining presence in society; “militant Catholics sought to make their faith relevant within society by trying to conform societies to their religious beliefs” (182). Protestantisms’ arrival altered the face of Christianity in the Americas as it was brought by immigrants and missionaries; it made its first appearance in the sixteenth century but made its presence fully known in the twentieth century. Once independence was achieved, “newly formed governments began inviting immigrants to bring their skills and knowledge to Latin America…to come to their lands largely as a weapon against conservatives” as the marginalized populace began to gain a voice (183).
“Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11:1 NASB) Many Christians today see the Apostle Paul in a western context in which his “divinely inspired” writing magically comes to him, putting him far outside what any Christian could hope to reach. E. Randolph Richards strives to alter this train of thought in his book Paul and First-Century Letter Writing. Richards emphasizes the processes, customs, and mechanics involved with letter writing in the first-century, which transforms Paul into a person, that Christians can identify with, making imitating him a more tangible idea. “The more we can see a flesh-and-blood Paul scribbling notes under a shade tree during an afternoon rest stop or huddled with a colleague and a secretary in the living room of a third-story apartment on a cold, blustery winter’s day, the more we have a real person whose life we can emulate. A Paul who argued with colleagues over how something should be worded, who modified material from sermons to use in other presentations, who juggled writing with preaching and ministry, is a Paul that many Christians can identify with, and even follow.” One of the modern day ideas of Paul the Richards tries to alter is that he worked in solitude, only sharing his letters when they were sent off to their intended recipients.
The globalization of religions is not a relatively new concept. From the creation of man, religion has played an important role in the many cultures that we recognize today, albeit some of these cultures have not been in existence but for a few thousand years. Christianity was born over two-thousand years ago with the birth of Christ. Since then, the world has grown to know of Christianity and many works of Jesus. Was this coincidence?
On the other hand, the Address mainly focused on the argument of unity. In the above discussion, other major principles of the document include the purpose and the method of restoring peace and unity with the Christendom. For instance, the primary objective, in this case, entails the unification of Christians as the people of God. Disunity in Christianity is a stumbling block to progress among Christian faithful. About the method of restoring peace and unity, Thomas Campbell in his document highly believed in a direct appeal to the
There was a further implication resulting from this newly elevated status; before The Great Awakening, the emphasis was on God; now the emphasis is on people’s response to God. The second result of the Great Awakening, and certainly growing out of the elevated status of people, was a changed concept of the church. Before The Great Awakening there had been the effort to make people conform to a single church. After The Great Awakening, with the down-playing of theology and the new emphasis on emotional conversion experiences, the idea grows up that the church is whatever you want it to be. Before, the church had been forming people; now people formed the church.
Paul Episcopal Church the congregation was participating in Eucharist. Which is the "re-presentation" of Christ's atoning sacrifice, with the elements transubstantiated into Christ's physical as well as spiritual Body and Blood. The first thing that happened when the service began they said a prayer and then began with the process of the Eucharist. They started with the bread first which represents the body of Christ. Before eating the bread they said another prayer to god and while that was happening there was a loud bell sounds three or four times.
800 CE) and the language (Church Latin was codified in the palace school). Latin was now the language of learning, which made it possible for scholars across Europe to communicate with each other, but it also separated the church from the common people. The palace school also standardized the liturgy, based on Roman practice, and produced a new translation of the Bible based on Church Latin. Charlemagne ordered the palace school and the Benedictine monasteries (discussed later in this chapter) to make copies of all the Roman manuscripts they could find in order to preserve