Muscular Christianity

The beginning of church is said to have risen from the resurrection of Jesus. In fact after the Pentecost, the disciples were celebrating the blessing given to Moses at Mount Sinai in which he experienced the presence of God. After this experience, the disciples were believed to be bold, understanding and Courageous. These characteristics till this day are still celebrated on Pentecost Sunday and are used for the sacrament of Confirmation, which is receiving the responsibility of a Christian and accepting the Holy Spirit. Church has been the backbone of people's faith. It has given them a comforting home to pray and be one with God. Today, however, more people are practicing faith outside the church. The majority of followers believe in God and life after death, however, many have lack of interest in the church. Church must be looked as a community of disciples. The book uses a suggestion from a Roman Catholic theologian Avery Dulles. He suggests, "that most appropriate image of the church for our times is the church as a community of disciples"(pp. 157). I totally agree with his suggestion. In order for Christians to find fulfillment in ones faith, one must help others understand their faith. We need to be grounded in grace; by being a Christian community your focus on believing is responding freely to a personal call and

The Great Awaking convinced many that God wanted to spread his word of the gospel by awakening them righteously and spiritualty which would convince people that the world would have peace on earth, but at the same time another cultural movement that imported from Europe which was called romanticism inspired many to strive for self-perfection.

Document 1) A: The Feudalism provided protection and military services for their families. Nobles agreed to give their loyalty to the king. As the peasants worked the land for the knights and nobles and which they gave to them was protection and a portion of the harvest to feed their families. Document 2)

This made it possible for people to fill in the open positions of clergymen. But, it also caused people to lose faith in the church and led to rebellions against papal authority, and indirectly paved the way for christian

The church and its followers started to make the idea known to others that God would send them to

Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. Nelson Mandela used sports and his movie Invictus to persuade and to depict the power of unity in a country (Edward). Nelson Mandela used the power of music and the power of movies to influence American culture.

Although the evangelical preachers were against this and the individualism that the market revolution was forming. Market revolution also brought forth the idea of individualism spread, “the religious people when seeking for people that wanted to be independent , they manipulated them by saying that being independent also meant being religious. ”(Weld) Several people began to go to church more often because they wanted to seek for help and because they wanted for their sins to be pardoned. The second great awakening wouldn't have been as successful as it was without the market revolution and created a dependent relationship to technology which is quite

More than anything, this is looked at as one of the biggest reasons the Protestant Reformation began (True, “The Protestant Reformation” slide 10).

<br>3. The start of this was in the 4th century before Christ; audiences accepted people

In the first section, we deal with the biblical foundation of church growth, health, and evangelism. In details, he gives three main reasons why we have church in the world. Our first responsibility as a church is to glorify God’s name.

Initially, the male body was appeared as your cliché, tan, strong, and tough sort of fellow. Such stars as Harrison Passage, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger depicted this cliché male in the cliché manly settings in films, for example, Rambo, The Fugitive, Terminator and Die Hard. Presently our common male vision is being cleared far from these old domains and pushed toward another path. With motion pictures like The Full Monty, Boogie Nights, and The Pillow Book, have stripped the male body and uncovered not it’s manliness, but rather it’s defenselessness.

By the late 1500s, Christian denominations had been popping up all over Europe. This was in response to the reports of indulgences (selling of freedom from purgatory), clerical immorality, abuse of money, along with many other bad actions that were rampant among the Church. It was these problems that Luther and others rebelled and created their own religions. With the rising of these Reformation movements, the Church needed to make some reforms itself. These reforms took the form of educating the clergy, opening monasteries, the Inquisition, and the organizing of councils. In fact, even though Protestant attacks brought these reforms, many of these reforms were needed anyway. The problems in the Church were so bad that the Church would not

Among the numerous ways for historians to look at Imperialism in Briton, perhaps the most important is that of the “Boy’s Stories.” These works discussed how to be a good citizen of the empire, to use their “pluck” to even the odds; even against insurmountable odds, and to act like a gentleman in all facets of life. The genre became so popular that newspapers/magazines began to circulate, for only a penny, specifically on these topics. Moreover, these papers discussed not only these qualities that portrayed masculinity, but also Christianity in the form of the new trend “muscular Christianity,” which emphasized that Christians needed to be athletic, strong, upright in their bearing and dauntless in the face of danger. G.A. Henty and Rudyard Kipling, notably espouse this concept in their works.

Christians at this time did many radical things. They changed the view of time and community. Previously, time had been considered to be cyclical and infinite. Christians changed that perception to that time was now finite. This changed the significance and meaning of history. This change in perception meant that now life was viewed differently. Instead of being trapped in one stage of a cycle, life was now considered to be one glorious adventure

The contemporary view of men in current society exposes a dualistic culture of extremes where men can’t seem to decide between chauvinist expressions of male dominance or emasculated depictions of immaturity and weakness. The Man of Purpose men’s ministry calls men to take their rightful place as God ordained it when he created the man as His firstborn. Jesus Christ in exemplifying this role as the firstborn of God operated in full awareness and acceptance of his authority as the leader and head of the church. Jesus does not feel the