|Running head: |1 | Signature Assignment: Case study Tanya L Reavis Fresno Pacific University |Running head: |2 | If the Jesus Christ we met in Matthew were to lead a church today in our city of Fresno, where would he build that church and how would he optimize the effect of his church in the community? If we rely on the lessons he taught in his ministry and the actions he took during his short life while spreading his word, we can easily formulate an answer and gain insight into what churches should be doing as representatives of his life and sacrifice. Living in North Fresno it always surprises me how many churches there are. How can that many people attend church? On the main block of the affluent suburban neighborhood I lived in, there were four churches, four on one block.
Evaluate Maurice Wiles views on miracles Maurice Wiles is a 20th century philosopher of religion. He has written many books including "The myth of god incarnate" and "gods action in the world". He took the same idea as David Hume in rejecting miracle, however took a very different approach to him. Maurice Wiles believed that Christian teaching has always interwoven with prophecy and miracle: God being incarnated in Christ. He said for Christians the universe and the nature of its workings was in itself a miracle from God.
Peoples Temple was founded in 1956 in Indiana as a racially integrated church that helped those in need. As Jones became more and more vocal, Indiana began putting pressure on him. He looked to California to move his church. Some 65 families followed him there. His focus in his sermons was of loyalty and sacrifice.
He also took a stand on clergy not elders being the only one to lay hands on in ordaining other men into the ministry. Johnson also stood to have the Lord’s Supper served every week other than quarterly as previously practiced by the congregation. Johnson felt so strongly about these issues that he would not back down and as reported by Legendre his last Sunday he “overcome by anger and frustration and voices several injudicious remarks, including ‘pronouncing the church a corrupt
Adherents believe meaning can be found in their response to evil and suffering. A principal belief of Christianity is that God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, as a human to model how to be truly human and to reach full potential as an adherent. Adherents believe Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary through the Immaculate Conception after Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary to bring her the news. It is believed Jesus Christ was sacrificed through his crucifixion to save adherents from their sins, and
When he went home and told his parents, his father told him something that he would never forget, “Don’t let it make you feel you are not as good as white people. You are as good as anyone else, and you don’t ever forget it.” At age 15, Martin was accepted into Morehouse University and enrolled in college. When king was still in college, he was introduced to the teachings of the great Mahatma Gandhi. He was truly inspired by Gandhi’s nonviolent movement so he decided to start one to end segregation. After king left college, he decided to become a pastor at a local church.
He served the community as a clergyman, activist, and leader of the Civil Rights Movement [ (Biography, 2012) ]. Through the guidance of another great thinker named Mahatma Ghandi, Dr. King followed many of Mahatma Ghandi’s teachings and shared them with society. Through Dr. King’s inspirational Christian faith, he led acts of nonviolent protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve the goal of legal equality for African Americans [ (About Dr. King, 2012)
(Aldridge, 2005, p.60) Marx found what he believed to be a full explanation of religion in Ludwig Feuerbach’s work entitled ‘The Essences of Christianity’. The argument set forth by Feuerbach was that God was an extension of humanity; therefore Christianity was the vehicle to fulfil aspirations for perfection. Thus, the masses, in their worship of God, could project their wishes onto benevolent supernatural being. (Aldridge, 2005, p. 61) According to Karl Marx in his “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of the heartless world, the soul in a place without soul. It is the opium of the people”.
In his view, the Church's first and foremost goal isn't the individual experience, but rather the ability for humans to create the Kingdom of God on earth. For Raushenbusch this could be done through what he called the “social gospel.” “Since the Kingdom is the supreme end of God, it must be the purpose for which the church exists.”[7] By living each day in love, humans should theoretically be able to live like Jesus Christ and in turn reform society. This focus was influenced by many factors. One prevalent factor, which led to this sense of urgency toward social reform, was the migration of the population. In Emerson's time, the majority of American citizens lived in rural areas.
Christian love essentially unites persons with the ontological good – originated from God – and transforms the self to be concerned both for oneself and the good of others on the level of identity. This article presents a more subtle critical analysis of self-interest – an sich a-moral - while it proposes self-love not only as a necessary condition to undertake genuine morality but also as a guarantee for the moderation of self-interest. KEY WORDS: Agape, love, self, self-interest, selfishness, self-love. Introduction In most ethical discourses, one may observe confusion between an act of selfishness, self-interest, and self-love. Some seem to intentionally mystify their meaning while others inadvertently employ them interchangeably to explain one’s act in relation to oneself.