Andrew Luth What Is Orthodox Theology Analysis

“Christian theology is a theology of liberation. It is a rational study of the being of God in

At some point, every great theologian faces the challenge to read a journal article on a topic so he or she can write a critique in order to bring clarity or confirmation. We see this in the academic world a lot. And besides doing the work as a requirement, this is an opportunity to prepare one to write better, to expose to different disciplines of theology, to develop critical thinking, to expose to principles of rules, and to eventually write better Research Papers. All this in consideration, this critique paper is based on the systematic theology interpretation of the deity of Jesus Christ.

Michael J. Himes, in his book Doing the Truth in Love, describes theology as a way of “talking about God.” Talking about God brings many questions to mind: how do people talk about God when God is a mystery? How do people converse about what they do not know for sure? Many may think theology is inherited and even theologians talk about what they have learned from doctrines and the history they have been taught. Even though theologians know very little about God aside from what they studied, they still know it is important to talk about God. As Himes states, “God is simply too important to us not to talk about.” Although theologians are still figuring out the mysteries of God, they attempt to put forth their opinions and ideas about God in order to inspire people to find their own theology.

For the Life of the World authored by Fr. Alexander Schmemann an Orthodox priest was originally intended as a “study guide” in the 1970’s for students preparing themselves for Missionary work, giving them a “world view”, helping to speak about Christian view points along with an approach to how they coalesce through the eyes of the Orthodox Church. A key theme Fr. Schmemann discussed is Secularism, which he believes developed from our progressive alienation of the Christian culture. Additionally, he presents his interpretation of the transforming biblical themes of creation, fall, and redemption through a sacramental understanding. Fr. Schmemann’s experiences within the Orthodox Church liturgy reveal unity in the meanings of these three themes. It is through these understandings he believes can effectively offset the disastrous effects of secularism while revitalizing the sacramental understanding of the world.

In this paper, I am going to share my ideas of theology. I believe that one of the biggest mistakes I made in the past was that I was afraid of being rejected, so I wrote a theology paper and tried to give the previous COM what I thought they wanted to hear instead of what was truly inside of me. Fortunately for me, even though I was not given a green light in order to see the Eccleastical Council, I was licensed to preach and this gave me time

I attended the Greek Orthodox Archbishop Demetrios’ lecture on “St. Basil's Nine Homilies on the Creation of the Universe” on Thursday, April 20th. When I researched the Archbishop, I saw that he has been integral throughout the past couple of decades in scholarly efforts to unify different sects of Christianity through Scripture. His topic, St. Basil of Caesarea was a Greek bishop whose works and ideas on Biblical doctrine are highly respected by Catholics, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians alike.

The modern world saw three theological movements representing various view on the nature and authority of the scriptures. The Liberal, Evangelical and Neo-Orthodox movements all attempted to define what was true in relations to God, Jesus, and the scriptures and how it should be applied to the Christian’s life. Each movement also had their own view on the history of the scriptures and Jesus Christ.

Shmeman, Aleksandr. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1973.

Gregory’s book On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius presses on the importance of purification and proves the identity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit through His creation. Gregory identifies the discussion of theology is “no such inexpensive

John Binns' An Introduction to the Christian Orthodox Churches intends to give the reader an overview of Orthodox churches, and not merely those but those which accepted the Council of Chalcedon. Binns' starts his overview of Orthodoxy's diversity by examining the various bishops found along Straight Street in Damascus, they all are representing different traditions. Through this lens Binns' begins to set the stage for Orthodox history and practice. He begins to differentiate Eastern and Western theology, thus a needed analysis begins to take shape of the Eastern church. Binns' takes on the task of fixing the lack of general information of Eastern Theology effectively by means of examining the past through a survey of Orthodoxy in the east.

The term prophetic discernment‘ is intended to capture the interplay of divine disclosure and human shaping as prophetic discernment. The prophetic office is the discernment of God‘s

Saint Thomas Aquinas is one of the people accredited for having brought theology into the limelight. However, though theology existed long before the emergence of philosophers and fathers if the church, individualistic drives such as those of Aquinas brought a deeper understanding into the mysteries of theology. Modern day theology would not have gotten any bearing without the impact of philosophers and scholars who simplified the understanding of theological concepts. While it cannot be independently verified what the motivation was behind the interest in theology, it is clear that theology is what it is because of the input of the philosophers and scholars (Thomas & Pegis, 1997).

Theology can seem like a scary word to some people. For some, this word evokes images of large libraries and stuffy book lovers sitting on the library floor reading huge volumes of work by the like Karl Barth 's Church Dogmatics or H. Orton Wiley 's three-volume Systematic Theology. For others, you picture a university or seminary where professional pastors and future professors go, but come back to your local church with bigger words and ideas than you can account for on your child 's language arts homework. And still for some, the idea of some professor sitting in an ivory tower writing and scheming up some new and novel idea just trying to make your life miserable that is surely unbiblical. Surely, it 's not something for the

The discussion of historical theology is especially persuasive in helping Carlo make his point, as it points out a stark disparity between the manner in which some people approach present theology and the way they approach the study of past theology. Human beings have a tendency to do this with all bodies of knowledge, where what is known today is assumed to be the final or definitive word despite the fact that what was "known" yesterday with the same degree of certainty is readily dismissed. If historical context is important for understanding the theology of previous eras, modern contexts

Wolfhart Pannenberg is regarded by many to have been one of the most prominent systematic theologians in the world. More than six hundred works and a multinational audience attest to this claim. Pannenberg was Professor of Systematic Theology with the University of Munich from 1968-1994 and, throughout his life, has gained a considerably positive reputation for, in the words of Christiaan Mostert, “wide learning and deep insight, sharp powers of analysis and unusual capacity to relate Christian theology to other fields of enquiry.” Mostert further compliments Pannenberg, stating that he is “an original thinker, a theologians’ theologian.”