Tevye's Fiddler On The Roof

The true meaning of Christian in CCU is defined by this Evangelical orientation, which transcends denominational boundaries. These beliefs in action are defined by four distinct concepts. The first being conversionism, which is the belief that lives need to be changed. Next activism, the expression of the gospel in effort. Biblicism, a particular regard for the bible and finally crucicentrism, a stress on the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. (Session 1 Biblical perspective, n.d.)

But, as so many people resoundingly reject the hypocrisy, hate, homophobia, and misogyny of the Christian church, they also often leave behind the spiritually nurturing aspects of religious life and find themselves adrift in a post-church world.

Perhaps the most powerful, fluent, and forceful paper promoting liberal Christianity is indeed Harry Emerson Fosdick's 1922 sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”. Fosdick seemed as if he was a very captivating human being in history during his time of existence. He wrote one of the most engaging papers that I have yet to read thus this far. It was definitely a wise decision to go ahead and read the two articles discussing fundamentalism to catch me up so that I did not have trouble keeping up with Fosdick's movement that he established in his sermon. Initially, I believe that the arising church is, amongst other things, is a rectifying of liberalism for a postmodern age. And I'm convinced that the same claims made by Fosdick in 1922 are just what we hear form emergents today. There is nothing new that lies under the sun today. It is only natural that the specifics argued for by the modernists are not those of the postmodern emergents.

Writing in the late 1980s, Herbert Schlossberg provides a thorough analysis of current trends in American culture in his book Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture. Many scholars have examined Western civilization and concluded that we are in its declining years. Some use analogies of space: rise, zenith, and fall; others use analogies of biology: birth, maturity, and death. Schlossberg refuses to see all cultures as following these patterns, but rather attempts to use the concept of judgment, based on the biblical example of the prophets: “With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction” (Hos. 8:4). If the idols are destroyed, and we return to worship the true God, we can expect

No doubt, you are aware the Church is in decline—both in membership and in its influence in the world, for the past several decades. Several key elements are missing in the lives of most Christians, which are rarely addressed in our church pulpits or in the books we read. How We Christians Miss The Boat unabashedly addresses these issues, with dead-on solutions, which will change and revolutionize the lives’ of all its readers.

When Tevye hears that Chava wants to marry Viedka, he is very angered. Tevye is a very religious man and to allow his daughter to be married to a Non-Jewish man is out of the question. In the movie, when he is debating to allow the marriage or not, he imagines a big dance. At first Chava is a young child and with Tevye, but she later grows up and starts dancing with the fiddler. Of course, this is okay because the fiddler is Tevye’s happy place, but Chava can’t leave the happy place, which is what she does. She leaves him to go with Viedka, which represents her leaving his “happiness.” This is not acceptable to Tevye so he forbids her to ever see him, therefore she must disobey.

In The Next Christians, Gabe Lyons presents how the next generation of Christians turns the tide by bringing the truth of the Gospel to bear on our changing, secular society. While many Christians are worrying about the growing disregard for Christians and deviation from our faith, Gabe holds an optimistic attitude and believes now we are restorers, and Christianity’s best day are yet to come

According to the author, American churches with their theology have promoted an “alternate reality” which has no connection to the real world. People view Christianity as a set of instructions for the invisible “heavenly” realm but not for the visible, physical world.

What does a girl gotta do to get a nice guy? This question is on the minds of Tevye, the milkman, eldest daughters Tzeitel, Hodel, and Chava when Yente, the town matchmaker comes to their house with news. In Anatevka, the Russian shtetl town where Jews and gentiles live completely separate, the Jews are given a match for whom they are to be married. The father meets with the potential husband and makes the decision. That is what they have always done, after all it is tradition, explains the philosophical Tevye. However, things don’t go exactly like usual, unlike Tevye hoped. Yente had given Tzeitel a match, but Tzeitel wished to marry the town tailor, Motel, and they manage to convince Tevye to allow them to marry. Comes a student named Perchik

The individual must also love Him. Emerson states, “Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.” (1518) You cannot love God without loving yourself and vice versa. Where there is love, there is trust. God created society; God created us; we must trust and love all of creation. “My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me,” (1452) says Emerson. A gift granted by God is worth as much love as one shows himself. “I find them, or rather, not I, but the Deity in me and in them, both deride and cancel the thick walls of individual character.” (1453) Society can become jovial and loving when the trust and love transcends the physical and becomes part of God. When we are all in tune and play our notes, the chords sound wonderful and a song plays

This megachange, makes people desperately to look for a secure place to keep changes away; a kind of safe heavenly place where the past will dwell forever. Robert Dale put it in this way: “Change, often viewed as a threat to traditional forms of faith, causes some churches to sprint frantically back into the past in search of security”. . Unfortunately, more churches preferred to choose the path leading to stagnation and slow death rather than to rise up and to reconsider their unique function in the world.

Out of the 381 million Americans living in the United states, 71% of them consider themselves a Christian ("US Christians Numbers 'decline Sharply'” 1). While the number of Christians in America has declined, their influence remains prevalent upon American society. Moreover, in terms of society, Christianity has influenced the development of the United States, and its social and cultural society.

The Christocentrism we touched on in the previous paragraph is one of the most fundamental

As Christians we are trying to re-invent our beliefs, faith and righteous living to fit in the modern world. We are trying to move with the tide, follow trends and changes. We are incorporating what is in the world into Christianity. Christians are trying to hold on to what God expects us to do and living righteously but it is getting harder as the world is changing.

The Transforming Vision, written by Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton, yearn for a change in the way Christianity is viewed. According to the authors, science, technology and economic growth is what shapes our society, while Christianity stands in the sidelines. The authors aspire to see a change in Christianity where it “may receive social and cultural embodiment.” In the first chapters, Walsh and Middleton explore the reason behind why Christianity of North Americans is so disembodied compared to others. In addition, Transforming Vision explores the different types of worldviews compared to a Christian worldview, or biblical view. Furthermore, it discusses how the different type of world views affects us and if there is any worldview better than another.