The Story Of A Man Named Matthias

The novel, “Jesus and the Disinherited” speaks to the plight of the men and women who stand with their backs against the wall. The wall of oppression, the poor and disinherited that the author, Howard Thurman is witness to in his own time through black lives in America during the 1930’s. Thurman’s interpretation of Jesus as a poor Palestinian Jew, the disinherited population of his own time introduces the subject matter of the book which then moves to identifying the three hounds of hell, fear, deception and hate that continue to plague the disinherited today. According to Thurman, the great equalizer of mankind is identified in the religion of Jesus. The solution, love of God, self and neighbor. Sharing the lessons of Jesus, that transcend time and location bringing the love and hope of Jesus Christ to the disinherited, and anyone else willing to follow Christ is Thurman’s ultimate

The book starts out by telling us about an ordinary young boy, who happens to be Jewish living in Sighet, Transylvani. He introduces the reader to his family, community and especially to his interest in the jewish faith. When his father would not help Ellie to find a master to pursue his studies of the cabbala on account that Ellie was still too young, Ellie finds a master for himself. Moshe the Beadle, a poor man of all work, who lived humbly, and was liked by all in the community. He also happens to be a foreigner who one day was expelled from the town of Sighet. Rumors of horrible things happening to the expelled were all around the town, but nobody

finds a home in religion and how he spends the majority of his life in his religious career, both of

Theissen is very knowledgeable in his Bible history and he displays it well throughout the book. He speaks about many episodes in Jesus’ life that we know to be true based on the Bible, and he interweaves them with his own fictitious character’s storyline. This really gives the reader a sense of what someone might have seen, heard and thought about Jesus during that timeframe, and it gives the reader a better chance to relate emotions with biblical history. Although the book is fictitious in nature, Theissen does a great job at elaborating how it might have been back in time for someone to become a new follower of Christ. He highlighted the many questions they may have faced not only on a personal basis, but on a public one as well.

One of the first and most important themes that came across the book was when Mosihe the Beadle returned from Passover in Budapest. He brought back with him news that the Germans had taken over with the Hungarian Governments approval. That take over was accompanied by the chilling news that “Anti-Semitic acts take place every day, in the streets, on the trains. The Fascist attack Jewish stores, synagogues. The Situation is becoming very serious…” (Wiesels 9). While Mosihe tried to warn his friends and fellow citizens, they mistook him for being just a crazy old fool and he soon became a laughing stock. However, “in less than three days, German Army vehicles made their appearance on our streets” (Wiesels 9). The image of an enemy army rolling through one’s home streets seemed impossible as well as a laughing matter to people of Mosihe community. The community’s denial to Mosihe’s claims sends the message to the reader to not tread lightly on the problems of today. Global warming, global financial collapse, or in extreme cases a third world war, all of these events seem like laughing matters to most of the population today, but very few people, like Mosihe the Beadle, see these unfolding before them, and do their best to warn their fellow people all while being completely

With the emergence of the television evangelist we have witnessed the rise of the prosperity gospel which promises that Jesus will assist you to live out the American dream of worldly success, wealth, health, and prosperity. In just viewing the title of this book which highlights the gospel and success you have to take a deep breath because just looking at the cover it appears that the book promotes the gospel of success. However, this book by Kirbyjon Caldwell describes a pathway to holistic salvation. In addition, God wants his children to experience salvation in every area of their lives. Kirbyjon Caldwell writes this book to demonstrate how to use the principles of holistic Salvation because God wants you to be successful in all areas of

Religion stands as one of the most important topics, and decisions in people's lives today. Many choose to ignore religion, and many take advantage of it. In this novel, I learned a lot about the Jewish religion. For example, I am not very familiar with other religions; I do not always have the time, or resources to learn about them. This novel allowed an opportunity for me to be instructed on this religion, through a very interesting, heartfelt story. Every page held a new nugget of information about their ways of life. I learned countless terms, definitions, and rituals that play a major part in a Jewish person's daily life. I loved how I learned all of this through a story, and not just through a page of facts.

Thomas Cranmer entered the Book of Martyrs as perhaps the most famed of the Oxford martyrs on March 21, 1556, leaving questions on the minds’ of students for years to come on both his life and labors. The historiography and beliefs of the Archbishop troubled many and the results since his demise often conflict in view of the man as either a passionate Reformer, or self-seeking career man. This classification, unfortunately, also troubles the study of his peers, like Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More making the Tudor period difficult to observe in objective fashion. The question lingers, especially if one knows anything about religion, did he die for the ancestor of the modern Church of England or rather for his own unique Protestantism that

The story The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller is the story of the Prodigal Son from a different point of view. The story is told from the vantage point that the main character is not the son that left but the son that stayed. Throughout the story, one son left and took his inheritance while the other stayed and worked for his father. When the son that left came home the other son was very angry. The way many people take this story is that it is a story of forgiveness and mercy, but one could argue that it is not a story on forgiveness and mercy but in fact a story on the unforgiving and ungraceful ways of people

What really caught my attention was the main character’s name Melchizedek. I am Hebrew Israelite, (not Israeli or Jewish). But Melchizedek, מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶֿק, is a Canaanite’s name according to The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible written by James Strong, meaning “King and Priest of Salem”. Melchizedek speaks of “The Soul of the World”, when in the bible, he speaks of The Coming of the Son of God. He wants to bring peace and

The book focuses on the end of the fifteenth century during the Spanish Inquisition. A time when many Jews were exiled from Spain.

The major theme of this gospel is that Jesus is savior. He is the savior of the whole world not just the Jews. Luke portrays Jesus as a passionate messiah by stressing his inclusion of the outcasts. Jesus associated with the tax collectors, woman and physically disadvantaged. Jesus denounces the rich and comfortable in this gospel during the Sermon on the Mount. Luke also downplays Jesus ' suffering by excluding much of it from his gospel. An example of this is the

Tarsus is a city located inland from the Mediterranean by about 20km in the area of Cilicia, Anatolia and was primarily inhabited by the Hittites until their land was relinquished to the Assyrians and Persians in 400 BCE. It sits on an old trade route which increased its prosperity over its 2000 years of known historical contribution. It was an important point of intersection between the land and sea routes making it a significant place of commerce. At one point it was the accepted capital of Cilicia in the Roman Empire and particularly held fame for being the birthplace of St. Paul the Apostle.

Analyzing “Journey of the Magi” by T.S. Eliot COURSE # and TITLE_ENGL 102: Composition and Literature SEMESTER OF ENROLLMENT Spring D 2017 NAME Danielle Lantinga ID # L29463685 WRITING STYLE USED MLA Outline and Thesis Statement Thesis Statement: Throughout the poem, Journey of the Magi, there are many hidden meanings and all of them have some type of connection to the Christian faith. Outline I. Introduction II.

The way this book is written it was really hard to read and understand and get through, but once you do, it shows how the church views the issues that we are living with in today 's world and how the church thinks it should be handled and what the bibles says we should do about it and that we should follow what it tells us even though it could hurt people we care and love just because the church says it wrong. but yet the government has passed laws allowing issues or banning issue or not even commenting on issues this book cover it all it shows the hard truth into the church.