Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Book Critique: Share Jesus Without Fear An essay submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course Evan 565 Bibliographical Entry Shepherd, William Fay with Linda Evans. Share Jesus Without Fear. Nashville, Tenn.: B&H Books, 1999. Author Information William ‘Bill’ Fay is a nationally renowned evangelist who has written many books on contemporary evangelism. Seen as a modern day Paul, his criticism of Christians resulted in a saved soul and a converted character.
Critical Analysis 1: The Great Awakening By: Chris Naylor The Great Awakening was a Christian revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion. It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of deep personal revelation of their need of salvation by Jesus Christ. Pulling away from ritual and ceremony, the Great Awakening made Christianity intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual conviction and redemption, and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality. It brought Christianity to African slaves and was a monumental event in New England that challenged established authority. It incited rancor and division between old traditionalists who insisted on the continuing importance of ritual and doctrine, and the new revivalists, who encouraged emotional involvement and personal commitment.
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Charles Spurgeon and the Obstinacy of the Will Submitted to Dr. David Kitchens, Professor in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of SEMI 500 LUO (fall 2014) Introduction to Seminary Studies by Kris N. Rheingans November 16, 2014 Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………1 Influential Experiences…………………………………………………………………..2 Biblical and Theological Foundations…………………………………………………..3 Personal Application of Theology....................................................................................4 Conclusion..........................................................................................................................5 Bibliography.......................................................................................................................6 Introduction Charles Haddon Spurgeon is one of the great minds and powerful proclaimers of the Gospel in the Church Age. However, the years leading to Spurgeon’s conversion were wrought with a profound intimacy with the doctrinal idea of total depravity of mankind. This and other influential experiences, Spurgeon’s biblical and theological foundations, and his personal applications of theology are the focus of this study. The author will, with the support of Spurgeon’s words, prove that without being drawn by Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, man does not have the personal will to come to Christ because of his depraved nature. Influential Experiences The purpose of God through the life of Charles Spurgeon was effectual from the very beginning.
James P. Byrd took a chance of trying to answer the question when he wrote Sacred Scripture, Sacred War; which is a monograph that explores how American colonists used biblical texts to justify the Revolution and inspired those who fought in it. The bible was the most read and respected book in the colonies as well as in the new nation, and Byrd as well as many others observe that biblical authority was more important than any other source in endowing the Revolution with meaning. The author of this book James P. Byrd is an Assistant Professor of American Religious Studies, an Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research Graduate Department of Religion, and a Fellow in the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville Tennessee. He has obtained many credentials, graduating from Gardner-Webb University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in Historical Studies, from Duke University with a Master of Divinity in theological studies in 1991, and graduating from Vanderbilt first in 1997 with a Master of Arts in American History, then again in 1999, with a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Byrd offers an “analysis of how American revolutionaries choose defended their patriotic convictions of war through scripture” felt by the Christianity Today Review, 2013.
Clive Staples Lewis, better known under the pen name C. S. Lewis, is probably one of the most popular, respected, and beloved children’s writers of the 20th century reaching the height of his acclaim through his Chronicles of Narnia Series. However while he may be best known for writing childhood fiction he also impacted his time drastically by writing religious paraphernalia. During his lifetime he was successfully able to find a balance of recognition and respect for his fiction and nonfiction works. Overall C. S. Lewis impacted his time period equally as both a writer and a Christian helping him to inspire both children and adults’ beliefs in Christianity. When Lewis was 18 he turned down a scholarship to oxford in order to join the British
Paley William Paley (1743-1802) was an Anglican clergyman, he was well known for his writings in philosophy so much so that one of his books was regarded as very influential and required reading at Cambridge until the 20th century. His argument for the existence of God is not seen as original however it was still seen as important when looking at the existence of God. Paley’s book was published 23 years after Hume’s Dialogue of natural religion. In Paley’s book Natural Theology he put forward the idea that we could understand God by looking at the world which is God’s creation. Paley’s design argument is established on regularity, purpose and order and is divided into two parts; design qua purpose and design qua regularity.
It seems that He could rarely be mistaken. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17th, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger Franklin. Benjamin, who was the tenth child, of seventeen sisters and brothers, “the youngest son of a youngest son for five generations back” (Franklin). Benjamin was a smart child who loved to read Abiah and Josiah wanted Benjamin to be a clergyman, but due to financial issues they could not send Benjamin to college, so Josiah had him first apprenticed as a candle maker and then to his brother, James as a typesetter in a printing press. The books, papers and ideas he was introduced to in his brother’s shop set the young man on a path to greatness.
Concluding his last year at Morehouse College, he studied at Crozer Theological Seminary a prominently white school in Philadelphia (Miller). After which, he received a Masters degree at Boston University where he learned about the great philosophers of the times such as Gandhi, Plato, Marx and others. Throughout the years Gandhi became his greatest influence with those teachings of non-violence, so much so that his position on non-violence was none changing. In King’s essay, “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence Malcolm X, and the younger generations wanted to believe in, “an eye for an eye” theory, however, in Gandhi teachings, “an eye for an eye leaves the whole world
Michael Gove the current education secretary, said faith schools offered parents a genuine choice. Certainly faith schools are generally oversubscribed. Parents perceive faith schools to achieve superior academic standards. Faith schools originated some 200 years ago in England, in response to the Church of England, and other denominations, who felt it their moral obligation to provide education for all, especially “the poorest” and most venerable (Chadwick 2012). In 1944 church schools were incorporated into the state system through the 1944 Education Act.
While his father Oludotun Rasome Kuti was a protestant minister and a school principal. His father was also the first president of the Nigerian Union of teachers. Whiles both of brothers are well known doctors in Nigeria. His cousin Lareate Wole Soyinka, whom was also Nigearian, was the first African to win a Noble Prize for Literature. While growing up Kuti states that an article that both his parents were taught and strict and would beat him, but he also states that he knew they did those things to get him ready for what life would be like.