Trinitarian Doctrine : Christianity From Other Religions And Serves As A Barometer For Measuring Orthodox Faith

Evangelism must be led with a holy passion. In a book edited by James Berkley, one will find the words of Carl Rantz, who said, “If we don 't live it, we can 't preach it with conviction,” (Berkley). Evangelism begins and ends with Jesus. The desired outcome of this paper is to birth a growing passion to make life count for eternity through the work of evangelism and discipleship of others for Christ. There is no higher calling in life than to embrace the divine directive to ‘make disciples of all nations,” (Matthew 28:18-20). This paper will establish a brief theological basis for evangelism as a way of life, the power of one 's personal

In the world of the Church there must be a mission to be captured. If it is not to go and spread the Gospel, what is the point of the church? The Missio Dei stands as a guide for the church. Describing the Church’s mission through Missio Dei requires a look at not only the Abrahamic Covenant and relationship between the church and missions, but the role of missions within the church as whole.

Nicene Trinitarian Doctrine, Bishops from all over came to talk about and challenge the Arian view that Jesus and God are alike but not of the same essence or one. “Nicaea proclaimed with boldness that Jesus shares the divinity of the Father. God the Son is homoousios with God the Father, the same in essence or substance” (Jones, Beth Felker. Practicing Christian Doctrine: An Introduction to Thinking and Living Theologically pg. 64). The Nicene Trinitarian Doctrine is the one that the Church actually adopted because it meant that The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are one. Then in 381 the Council of Constantinople affirmed the oneness of God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit. There was no trace of ideology in this doctrine and it went along with the Christian Tradition. (John 14:11- 14) “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or believe because of the miracles I have done. (v.13) and if you ask for anything in my name, I will do it for you. Then the Father’s glory will be shown through the Son. (v.14) if you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it. The Promise of the Holy Spirit (The Holy Bible). The Bible has always lead us to believe that all three persons are in the oneness of God, but it is harder to make sense of it, or try to understand the Trinity. The Church began to understand the doctrine of the Trinity by analyzing all

There are three foundational points in this theological approach that provide comprehension for that which seems beyond understanding --- God in one being; God in three persons. First, the main idea is centered on joining with Christ in the continuing ministry that substantiates the

Scripture never states the word “Trinity,” instead it was Tertullian who coined the term for our triune God as well as elucidated, “God is one substance in three persons.” While groundbreaking, Tertullian’s work on the Trinity introduced a theological controversy that caused schisms throughout Christianity. In order to solve the controversies of which Trinitarian doctrines are authentic and heretical theories of the trinity, Christian leaders used Scripture and tradition to form the boundaries of Trinitarian theology through their statement of faith in the Nicene Creed. The work of Tertullian and the Nicene Creed acknowledge the roles of the persons of the Trinity forming a doctrine of the economic trinity; however, after the Council of Nicaea Trinitarian debates continued questioning the ontology of the

As I recall, when I was too young to understand what God was preparing me for, I thought I was preparing myself to be able to stand firm in my faith without reservation, no matter what the consequences. As a child there were times that I practiced saying aloud that I believed in God and then I would bend over for my head to be chopped off by the guillotine. Why would I remember this like a video on repeat? Why would it flash through my mind for all these years? I have often asked myself this question. Was I going to find myself facing an evil where I would be challenged to deny my God or be killed? Until the world's recent encounter with the terrorist Isis, it did not seem that it was a real

In part three, Metzger provides a theological foundation for evangelism. A proper understanding of God’s sovereignty in salvation will lead to a proper understanding of grace which, in turn, should embolden our witness for Christ. Christ is the only way to God. Christians may have fear to evangelize others but the Bible is clear that all real Christians have this privilege. Our weakness can become the means through which God

Newbigin believed that a missionary encounter required that the church embodied a comprehensive story over against the cultural story . The missio Dei is God’s mission and Newbigin understood that acceptance of God’s mission is essential for revival. The Thesis of The Open Secret is the “Christian mission is best understood in three ways: “as proclaiming the kingdom of the Father, as sharing in the life of the son, and as bearing the witness of the Spirit.” After rooting mission in the activity of the Triune God, he then seeks to apply this understanding to current issues in mission. ”

As shown below, the similarities between the Gnostic Christology and Trinity of the Valentinians and the orthodox Trinitarians are striking. The Valentinians were teaching a Christology very similar to the Christology of the Trinity Doctrine expressed in the Athanasian Creed about 350 before the proclamation of the Athanasian Creed.

The most important aspect of the missions is to contextualization. Before the author talks about this issue, this book provides a definition of the two words: leadership and missionary. First of all, the author defines the term ‘leadership’ as three different roles: 1) the one who set the direction; 2) shares a purpose of the missions; and 3) cultivated a culture by leading them. Second, the author’s definition of missions is, “a missionary is anyone, from any country, who leaves home in order to proclaim the gospel, usually in another culture” (13). Furthermore, according to the book, the missions is not merely proclaiming the good news of Jesus to all over the world, but it should move to church planting, discipleship, biblical education, leadership development, and participate with the world vision, because that is how you fulfill God’s ultimate purpose.

The first religious mission had started with the early Christians, and it consisted of little groups of priests to disseminate Christianity. In addition, the concept of the mission has changed over the years and no longer depends only on diffusion of the Christian religion, but also it went beyond that to support people, provide food for the homeless and help them to have a better life. According to Fr. Paul Spotts, a missionary priest, “the work of the mission is not reserved to clergy or nuns but to all the members of the church. There are many missionaries who are not priests and over 18 years old. They are doctors, teachers, lawyers, economics and on”(Spotts, personal communication, 2015). That shows the collaboration among the organization’s members to achieve and succeed in their humanitarian work. Each member of the religious mission has a specific job to do. The priest has to celebrate mass, teach the Gospel and baptize the new believers. The teacher should teach the parishioners’ children. The doctors examine, diagnose and treat patients. The economics often forecast, analyze the economic situations and aid the church’s operational efficiency and so on. Indeed, this substantiation confirms the success of the missionary church in its mission. As a matter of fact, the harmony and diversity of the evangelists make a fruitful and complete

A major shift in Trinitarian theology also occurred through his development of a “reciprocal relational Trinitarianism.” This shift in “Trinitarian views of personhood, relationality and sociality among the Persons of the Trinity”

“Christians, for all their orthodox profession of faith in the Trinity, are almost just monotheist in their actual religious experience. One might almost dare to affirm that if the doctrine of the Trinity were to be erased as false, most religious literature could be preserved almost unchanged throughout the process.”

John Feinberg states that one possible way to logically conceive the mystery of the Blessed Trinity is through the "label relative trinitarianism." By approaching the Trinity with a relativistic lens, Feinberg attempts to reconcile the ancient disputes which played a real part in "the split between the Eastern and Western Churches." However, the Church has always approached the mystery of the Trinity with tentativeness, especially since it is a dogma of revelation. In other words, although the Trinity is not mentioned directly in Scripture, it is nonetheless revealed sequentially. Because it is a revealed truth, it cannot be said to go against reason but as the Vatican I council of the 19th century concluded: "The divine mysteries, by their very nature, so far surpass the created understanding that, even when a revelation has been given and accepted by faith, they remain covered by the veil of that same faith and wrapped, as it were, in a certain obscurity"¦." With this essential point in mind, this paper will show that the doctrine of the mystery of the Blessed Trinity contains nothing that goes against reason but yet that cannot either be fully grasped by human reason alone.

Mary Ann Fatula’s The Triune God of Christian Faith provides for the reader the inner life of God as well as insight into the human reality. Fatula’s writing draws the devotional discussion of the Trinity as the present-day effect of the Trinitarian faith is called to support attempts to articulate and live the Trinitarian mystery. The Trinity in a human’s life is the content of our definition of our human meaning and for an infinite gift: love. Each of us has a desire for achieving meaning, for love, and for wholeness. Fatula in her book develops the study of the divine ‘persons’ and states the importance of understanding what it is to be truly a ‘person’ of both human and divine potential.