...Biblical theology is a Christian approach in which the theologian studies the Bible from the perspective of understanding the progressive history of God revealing Himself to humanity and following the fall and throughout the Old Testament and New Testament. Biblical theology is an attempt to articulate the theology that the Bible contains as its writers addressed their particular settings. It particularly focuses on the epochs of the Old Testament in order to understand how each part of it ultimately points forward to fulfillment in the life mission of Jesus Christ. Because scholars have tended to use the term in different ways, biblical theology has been notoriously difficult to define. Biblical theology is also study of the Bible that seeks to discover what the biblical writers, under divine guidance, believed, described, and taught in the context of their own times. Biblical theology is an attempt to understand God as He is revealed in the Bible. It seeks to discover what the biblical writers understand, believe and what they are taught. It’s based on the Bible first and then it takes scriptures from the word of God. Biblical theology pays attention to the soil of history. It studies revelation in the progressive sequence in which it was given. Also biblical theology finds its source in the Bible. Relation to Other Disciplines Biblical theology is related to but different from three other major branches of theological inquiry. Practical theology focuses on pastoral application...
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...connection between psychology and theology. The connection between psychology and theology is a topic of great argument. (Entwistle, 2010) Some scholars believe it is a great idea to connect psychology and theology, while others believe it would be harmful to do so. Entwistle focuses on the similarities of psychology and theology, instead of their differences. Psychology focuses on finding the cause of behavior through biological and environmental methods as well as past experiences. Theology focuses on the cause of behavior being linked to sin. Psychology focuses on healing through theories. Theology focuses on healing through Christ. Even though psychology and theology have different methods they have similar goals to achieve overall wellness. Entwistle stated that both psychology and theology focus on the cause of behavior and healing. (Entwistle, 2010) Psychology and theology also both contain truth. Entwistle believes “All truth is God’s truth.” (Entwistle, 2010) Psychology and theology are not so different and both can be combined to help achieve overall wellness in the lives of others. Entwistle made a point that theology and science have been embattled throughout history. Entwistle explains that how a person views the world determines how they view the truth in their lives. Entwistle also emphasizes that a worldview is learned instead of selected. (Entwistle, 2010) Entwistle suggests that beliefs must be examined concerning theology and the world. Only when you examine...
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...Why We Should Study Theology THEO 3303 Instructor Leland Melissa Jones 3 November 2013 Although many do not think studying theology is very important, there are many reasons why someone should look into studying Theology. In this paper I will be discussing what theology is, and why someone should look into studying Theology. There are many benefits to studying Theology. Let me begin by asking, “what is theology?” Theology is the study of God and all his works. (Grudem pg. 13) Theology is not only meant to be learned. It is meant to be lived and taught to others. God wants everyone to learn His word. By studying Theology the student is becoming more familiar with the word of God. By studying Theology we can learn from previous mistakes that were made by others. When we study theology we become more aware of what is considered to be the right and wrong things to do. By becoming more aware we choose to make better decisions. While studying theology the student becomes more aware of the fact that there are consequences to his or her actions. By knowing this he or she is less eager to do something wrong. Also, studying theology lets us know how God wants us to think. God does not want to have sin in our minds and thoughts. He wants us to become stronger in His word. He also wants us to teach everyone the message He is telling us in His word. Everything we learn by studying Theology we can apply to our daily lives. The Biblical writers consistently apply their...
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...Theology of Missions Paper GLST 500: Liberty University Spring 2016 Introduction Theology of missions is one of the most significant and enduring aspects of the Christian faith. The theology of missions is about witnessing and bringing the word of Christ to others and is a foundational aspect of individual religious works as well as the works of fellowships, worshippers, and the whole of Christianity. "Mission [is] 'looking beyond', being involved in God's worldwide adventure with people from many culture" [1]. As exciting as the ideal sounds the importance of mission is foundational in a changing context of faith, as more and more people step away from traditional religious worship and multiculturalism and ecumenical ideals stress transition in the faith [2]. Thus, through this paper, I will discuss the relevance of missions within the Old Testament and the New Testament, how the nature of God relates to missions, some key themes of the theology of missions and how mission theology relates to missionary, church leaders and lay people not in fulltime ministry. Old Testament and New Testament “The mission of God lies behind the whole of the Old Testament as well as the New Testament and the particular task which we call missions today” [3]. In the Old Testament, God is a sending or missionary God. In Mark 16:15-16 (NIV), God said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved…”. Just as Saul did, in 1 Samuel...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The Theology of the Emerging Church: Unorthodox Theology of the Revisionists Stream of the Emerging Church Developed from Culture Submitted to Dr. Richard Elligson, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of the course THEO 510 D13 Survey of Theology by Ray Ruppert May 7, 2014 Table of Contents Introduction...................................................................................................................................... 1 Definition of Emerging.................................................................................................................... 2 Emerging from Modernism.................................................................................................... 2 Emerging from Culture.......................................................................................................... 3 Emerging Theology................................................................................................................ 4 Comparing Revisionists Theology with Orthodox Theology....................................................... 5 Identify with the Life of Jesus.............................................................................................. 6 Transform the Secular Realm................................................................................................. 8 Conclusion.............................................................
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...Marxism Within Black Theology of Liberation. This study seeks to expose the ways in which Black Theology of Liberation was shaped by Marxism through the writings of its founders, concentrating predominantly on the need to bring about the liberation of the poor African-Americans from their repressive white racist oppressors by any means necessary, and the redistribution of wealth to those deprived of it by their white capitalist oppressors. The theme of this researched remained embed in my mind during, and after the 2008-09 presidential campaign of former Sen. Barack Obama, when some of his political opponents thought it beneficial to disclose Obama’s connections to a Black Theology of Liberation. Through this research I seek not only to obtain a broader understanding of this particular theology of liberation, but also to understand the Marxist ideological concept within the Black Theology of Liberation. Towards the culmination of the decade which witnessed the peak of the Civil Rights movement, black churches throughout America in the 1960s began to search for avenues through which they could help their communities cope with racial discrimination. Caught between the contradicting preachings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, a peculiar young theology student from Union Theological Seminary of New York City, James H. Cone, published his proposal for a Black Theology of Liberation titled Black Theology and Black Power (1969). This first scholarly work served...
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...Chapter I What does “prolegomena” mean? ➢ Things that are said before; introduction to the study of theology. What are the three presuppositions of prolegomena? ➢ 1) There is a God, 2) truth exists, & 3) person can know truth. What is the contemporary usage of the word “theology?” ➢ 1) Science of God and relations between God and the universe, and 2) essential being and His relationship to the universe as set forth in the Holy Scriptures. pg. 7 What is catechism? ➢ A scheme of questions and answers. What are five presuppositions for the task of theologizing? ➢ 1) there is a God and He has revealed Himself, 2) there are laws that are self-evident, 3) man has the ability to know things to the degree to which he directly observes them, 4) truth does not contradict itself, but is consistent and corresponds to reality, & 5) the mind accepts that which is logical and rejects that which is illogical. What are the tests used to verify theological truths? Explain. ➢ 1) test of consistency, 2) test of correspondence, 3) test of priority of data (what’s essential or irrelevant?), 4) test of cohesiveness, & 5) test of thoroughness (examine beliefs) pg. 12 What is the aim of Biblical theology? ➢ To arrange and classify the facts of revelation, confining itself to the scriptures for its material, and treating of doctrine only so far as it was developed at the close of the apostolic age. Where does Biblical theology get its material? ➢ Apostolic age What does historical...
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...“STABILITY & FLEXIBILITY” St. Anselm said that theology was “faith seeking understanding”. What appeared to me at first reading to be a simple statement has proven to be even more profound than I first thought. The idea of combining faith and reason is by no means simple, but as I reflected on it, I found myself wanting to go even deeper as I saw connections to other ideas presented in the most recent weekend and subsequent readings. Anderson’s statement that “theology is a contextual enterprise, conditioned by time and space” immediately resonated with me, as did Dulles’ quote that “theology does not simply repeat what is in its sources…it reflects on the sources with a view towards answering contemporary questions…” My Church strives to be, and rightly so, a meeting of God and God’s people, of tradition and the real world. Theology needs to be the melding of those two worlds. Contemporary culture and theology need to be in dialogue with each other as the Church works to bring relevance to its teachings as it addresses the challenges of contemporary life. Theology needs to provide us with the resources to make connections between our faith and the practical issues we face on a day-to-day basis. When theology collides with the world, that theology has to provide strength to those facing the challenges engendered by that collision. Anderson’s statement in his lecture that theology is "paradoxical in that it is both relativistic and universal” is something I feel very much in agreement...
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...BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY HOW PRACTICAL THEOLOGY GUIDES MY LIFE A RESEARCH PAPER ON HOW PRACTICAL THEOLOGY GUIDES MY LIFE BASED ON THE ESSENTIAL WORKS OF ANDREW MURRAY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES BY August 26, 2014 OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. HOW PRACTICAL THEOLOGY GUIDES MY LIFE 2 A. What prompts men to seek theology 3 1. How Andrew Murray views practical theology 4 2. How practical theology causes a deeper Christian life 5 3. The purpose of Practical Theology for a new life in Christ 6 A. How one comes to need practical theology 7 1. Absolute surrender 2. Practical Theology as a tool to abide in Christ 8 4. Conclusion 9 5. Bibliography 10-11 INTRODUCTION How practical theology guides a Christian life has been inspired by...
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...REFLECTION PAPER IN THEOLOGY 12: MAN AND MORALITY SUBMITTED BY: CALIMAG, MARRIELL B. AAT-2A SUBMITTED TO: SIR ANTHONY MERENCIANO Moral theology is a term used by the Roman Catholic Church to describe the study of God from a perspective of how man must live in order to attain the presence or favour of God. While dogmatic theology deals with the teaching or official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, moral theology deals with the goal of life and how it is achieved. So, the goal or purpose of moral theology is, simply stated, to determine how man should live. Moral theology examines such things as freedom, conscience, love, responsibility, and law. Moral theology seeks to set forth general principles to help individuals make the right decisions and deal with the details of everyday living in a way that is in accordance with the Church’s dogmatic theology. Moral theology is essentially the Roman Catholic equivalent to what Protestants usually refer to as Christian Ethics. Moral theology deals with the broad questions in life and attempts to define what it means to live as a Roman Catholic Christian. Moral theology addresses the different methods of moral discernment, the definitions of right and wrong, good and evil, sin and virtue, etc. Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are "good" (or right) and those that are "bad" (or wrong). It is based on human existence that refers to human experience. Human existence...
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...Theology “Theology is define as the study of God, and his relations with man.”(www.bible.org.com). Theology also states that one should lead to spirituality. Theology puts me in a mindset of thinking about God which is already part of my everyday lifestyle. Many people engage in theology because we each have a set of different beliefs when talking about God. So rather being content with our beliefs, and ideas about God we should each have a desire to know God which theology takes place to teach and give us a better understanding of God. Poor theology and a superficial, inaccurate understanding of God will only make our lives worse instead of bringing the comfort and hope we long for. Knowing about God is crucially important. Reject theology and you doom yourself to life with no sense of direction. This is my first theology course. What I hope to anticipate from this class is a chance to understand more of the world of God. What I also would like to take from this class is to know the living God and who he is. To study theology is to get to know God in order for me to glorify him through my love and obedience for him. All Christians should be consumed with theology the intense, personal study of God in order to know, love, and obey the one with whom we will joyfully spend eternity. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9). CitedHoly Bible, New International Version®...
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...“Constructive theology is a method of doing Christian theology that takes seriously theological and church tradition as well as modern critiques of that tradition being something universal, eternal, or essential;” (Wyman, xxx) The aforementioned quote, from Jason Wyman’s, Constructing Constructive Theology, intrigued me. In layman’s terms, I understand this to mean the both/and when piecing together, or apart, the nuances of constructive theology. However, what strikes me is how constructive has become so broad in its meaning. Thus, I have to ask, how do we be pluralistic and yet, still have a Christian identity if everything is acceptable? Yes, there are truths in the world, but what is ours as Christians? Do all truths count on the...
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...When I think of theology I think of the word of God, God, Jesus and religion. I think when you study theology you are studying what and who God truly is. I also know that when you study God you have to study his son and the thing that he did while walking this earth. Jesus did some remarkable things in that time. All these thing are a part of who God is. Christianity is what We are taught. It is what we that believe in and follow the Lord learn on Sundays and when we study his word. I also think that theology includes the study of the Bible and all the things that Jesus talk to his follows in the three years that he was on this earth. Theology is a broad topic. Like the books states we all or theologies because we all have thoughts, beliefs and opinion on what God is. In taking this course I hope to learn what theology really is. I want to learn what studying it means and how studying theology can bring you closer to God. In reading the course work for this week I already see that this there is a lot of interesting Things about God and Jesus that I Didn’t know. I love how this course goes into details about how different people look at. religion. More importantly I love to read so I love obtaining different types knowledge. I think theology will also expand on my love history because the bible covers a large amount of the history of the...
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...to “Celebrating God” and now towards “Transforming the World” You are now in your fourth and last theology subject in Adamson University’s Theology curriculum on “Faith Journey towards Social Transformation.” Let us spend a little time to recall what you went through from our previous theology classes. Let us start with our Theology 1, Searching for God in the World Today. In this subject, “theology” was defined as a process or a practice of consciously and methodically reflecting on our experience of God in the ordinariness of life and social and historical events of the world. You were introduced to “do theology” using the methodology of see-discern-act/pray. The objective of theology is not only to know God but to have a deeper and intimate relationship with God-in-Jesus. Theology 2, Responding to God’s Call by Becoming Fully Human, continues our journey of discipleship. The subject dealt with what is to be truly and fully human from a Christian perspective as a way of responding to God-in Jesus’ invitation having found Him in our lives. Thus, in this course, we paid attention tried to focus our “virtues” or good habits as the way to follow Jesus of Nazareth and St Vincent de Paul. You were guided, using the scriptures and Christian tradition, to acquire and develop good habits or practices that will help us become good persons in our everyday life. In Theology 3, Celebrating God’s Presence as a Christian Community, we realized that we are not alone in...
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...Is Religion and Theology Scientific? Religion and Theology are two terms that are often confused when it comes to their study. Religion is based on faiths and beliefs when it comes to the acceptance of superhuman powers in the form of God or gods. On the other hand theology is the study of God thought. This is especially true of Christianity. In short it can be said that theology works on religion. Theology is in fact based on religion. It is a system of studying about God especially Christian religion. Religion does not deal with any sort of rational analysis. On the other hand theology deals with the rational analysis of a religious faith. However there is no way we can separate the two. Theology is not science. Science is not theology. They are simply two different things. They are not even two similar kinds of things. Science is the pursuit of what you can know. Theology is the pursuit of what you, by definition, cannot know. Science can tell you how things in the world work and that can lead to technology: how to manipulate things to achieve a desired result. Theology cannot tell you how God works, nor can you ever manipulate God to achieve a desired result. Science deals with the study of nature, its forces, processes and development. It is based on the analysis of evidence. It assumes, as a working hypothesis, that processes and events happen due to natural causes, not through divine intervention. It rarely intrudes in matters of morality, the existence and nature...
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