Theology 205 By Edward Lewis

The Story of Christianity is a book written by Justo Gonzalez; a native of Cuba. Gonzalez serves on the faculty of the Interdenominational Theological Center which is located in Atlanta Georgia. He attended Yale University, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in historical theology; in fact Dr. Gonzalez is the youngest person at Yale to be awarded a Ph.D. He is also one of the first generation Latino theologians and instead of growing up Catholic, comes from a protestant background. In addition to writing many other books, Gonzalez is also Cokesbury’s publishing chief narrator of the Christian Believer study video lessons course and the recipient of the Ecumenism Award from the Theological Consortium in Washington, which he received as a

Award-winning journalist, Lee Strobel wrote The Case for Christ to retrace and enlarge his journey toward becoming a Christian. Strobel once atheist, and now Christian, shares how he began to look upon the Bible and God. As an atheist, Strobel lived the life of selfishness and only worried to please himself. When his wife began to go to church he wasn’t very pleased until after he saw the positive and attractive change in her. This is the start of his curiosity and investigation about Christianity. He wanted to understand what changed her like this. He wanted to relate with his wife so he decided to study about this and attend church services with her. Strobel began his journey and interviewed thirteen leading scholars who defended their views concerning the historical reliability of the New Testament. Strobel splits the case for Christ into three basic sections: Examining the Record, Analyzing Jesus, and Researching the Resurrection.

Henry, M. (2003). I am the truth: toward a philosophy of Christianity. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.

The meaning of theology is simple; it is the study of God and religious belief. The definition is plain to see but it’s important to go beyond what is already known. On a deeper level, what is the meaning of theology in respect to a religious community and to a person trying to find themselves in God? How is everyone involved in doing theology all the time? In this paper, there will be an in depth analysis on what theology is, why it is important, and how people are engaged in theology all the time.

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us (Lewis).” Dictionary.com states that ethics are the “moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity. The Christian ethical system, as C. S. Lewis stated, the way that God makes us to be good. In a Christian ethical system we are guided by morals, but in order to find the truth about God we must find what lies past our morals. Mere Christianity, written by the distinguished, British apologist C. S. Lewis, introduces the idea that the Christian faith is based on an argument from morality.

It is not good enough for Christian thought to teach about religious things or even to prescribe them; theology could do all this and still be thinking about them with a mind that has not yet been changed by Christ’s dying and rising. It is not so much thinking about theological topics that really constitutes theology, for distinguishable from this is the means by which the theological mind reflects.

The atoning work of Jesus is a difficult concept to wrap your head around. On the one hand, we see that, because he is one hundred percent God, he has full knowledge that he will ‘on the third day ascend into heaven’ and will be seated at the right of the God the Father Almighty. Yet, at the same time, Jesus the 30ish year old man is faced with his own gruesome death, and separation from the Father. As difficult as it is to grasp how hard it was for Jesus during this time, it is even harder to fully grasp the reason behind it all. Beth Falkner Jones, in her book Practicing Christian Doctrine: An Introduction to Thinking and Living Theologically and Ronald Heine, in his book Classical Christian Doctrine: Introducing the Essentials of the

This paper is a general philosophical enlightening exploration on how an individual may get to salvation Furthermore a portion of the assorted Christian convictions on the redemption request. One can see the person and the bigger new world church advancement. The writer endeavors to demonstrate the reader a minor example, of an extensive subject, salvation, however, God, the Rock, adores the world, and he is passed it all, and he sent his child Jesus to spare, uncover and restore the world. Set in the present time after the passing and restoration of Jesus. Our base thoughts are originating from the volume "The Mosiac of Christian Belief" by Roger

The Christianity of Philosophy, the title of this essay, is meant to be rather shocking, and more startling than the phrase "Christian philosophy" as a whole, which caused little controversy some few years ago among modern Christians. Gilson conceded to opponents that there could no more be a Christian philosophy, in the strict sense of the term, than a Christian mathematics or a Christian physics. For surely not only was Gilson right that philosophy is different from religion in its very idea, but also as a matter of historical fact there are many philosophies, throughout world history, that are not at all Catholic or even European.

This paper is a seven-page study of response, reflection, beliefs and questions on different theological topics. The body of the journal looks at consensus, or alternative views depending on where the interest was found in the chapter. I give the author credit for the work of taking 2000 years of history and funnel it to areas easier to understand. As a result of further research and reflection, I have grown another step to becoming better organized and apply thoughts and ideas. This book was written in 2002, so much of humanity has changed since then.

The writer reminds us that the Lord Jesus has made it possible for us to have access to God and lead in a daily relationship with him through his son Jesus Christ. He goes on to say that the greatest gift we have is to know and feel we are connected to a loving, forgiving, powerful Heavenly Father. Dr. Mollette tells us that we need God. People want to know and feel that they are connected to him. The author made a few points in regards to the church. He tells us that if the church is filled with people who have never experienced conversion, then the church will be overwhelmingly uncommitted. It will also be a church which will be overwhelmingly lost.

From the introduction of this book, Francis Nigel Lee describes his purpose of this book to introduce the history of philosophy from Christian understanding, so he calls this book ‘prolegomena to the history of philosophy’. Contents of this book are quite interesting; differing from a common book about the history of philosophy, Lee starts from God as the beginning of the history and philosophy. A structure of this book is following a biblical understanding of human history.

The most interesting content in Leonard Swidler and Paul Mojzes book “The Study of Religion in an age of Global Dialogue” thus far to me is the overall definition the author’s layout for the reader. They explain religion is the most fundamental, comprehensive of all human activities. Religion tries to make sense out of not simply just one or two aspect of human life, (examples where we come from and what happens when we die) but of all aspects of human experience. At the core of every civilization is its religion in some form or another, which both reflects and shapes it. So in order to understand human life in general Swidler and Mojzes suggest that our specific culture and history can be understood by our religions.

Theology is a science of God which looks to comprehend God 's creation, especially man and his condition, and God 's redemptive working in connection to humankind. On the off chance that theology is science, with a particular sort of reason routines for showing what science generates and improves in its access of faith. As Aristotle observed, each field of demand ought to apply a strategy appropriate to it, and it is the characteristic of an imbecile to attempt to use, for instance, a scientific system in a morals field (Westberg and Daniel 103).

Those of us who have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior have heard His Voice. How do I know this, you may ask? Because Jesus Himself said that no one can come to Him unless the Father draws him.