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had to ensure that there wouldn’t be another heresy like Arius again in the Christian Church, so the Council of Nicaea created the Nicaean Creed which emphasizes Christ’s divinity with the Father but with taking part of humanity. The Nicaean Creed was also made to strengthen the faith of the Christian Church and to always remind the that Jesus has a divinity. The Nicaean Creed can be found in many of the Orthodox Christian Churches which state, “We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ… light of light

something completely extraneous from early Christian religion and as merely an ecclesiastical production of the second through fourth centuries. While answering different tenets of this view; what he defines as the extrinsic model, Kruger proposes the merits of an mutually exclusive model, which he defines as the intrinsic model, which comprises “that the idea of Canon is not something imposed from the outside but develops more organically from within the early Christian religion itself”. (21) Kruger carefully

The Hillsong Church represents the diversity of modern Christianity, especially within the Protestant traditions. I was raised as a Christian, and my spiritual beliefs correspond with mainstream Protestant Christianity. However, I am not a member of the Hillsong Church. The church I am a member of, loosely, is unrelated to and totally different from the Hillsong Chuch. Our church is Unitarian, and not evangelical. Raised without a clear sense of denominational identity, I would not even know how

With all of these different types and ways Christians can interact with culture, a vital question emerges: How should Christians engage with culture? Like Christ against culture, should Christians shun culture and strive to exist outside of the world, like monks or the Amish? Or should Christians embrace culture like the Christ of culture perspective? Unlike those two polar opposites, the three median types recognize Christians cannot exist merely in Christ or culture exclusively, but rather acknowledge

Una, the True Church The Faerie Queene is an important romantic epic that more than being just poetry, represents the protestant imagery in terms of kinds of individual virtue , the forces of temptation and human weaknesses to which the greatest of persons can succumb and, of course, the humanist ideals of its time. His author, Edmund Spenser, makes use of biblical and classic allegories to tell his story, that more than have been a religious writing, the poem’s purpose was to educate, to turn

of the church. It follows the events of “knowing the story” and where the church came from and where it is headed. Clearly the church is not complete as Jesus has not returned so the work is still on going. The story continues to be written. Christians today, just as the Jewish people did back during the times of the Old Testament, need to know the story and to do that we need to know the scriptures. The question comes down to how the Old Testament and the New Testament would be formed into one

tell a story. In addition, pagans and Christians both produced similar “non-verbal, iconographical images” that pointed to a “shared conceptual backcloth” in which both pagans and Christians had a prior “agreement in a form of life.” This form is largely defined through the relationship between death and the afterlife. One such form involves the iconographical depictions of events that occurred in the catacombs themselves—refrigeria meals (in the Christian case) to commemorate the apostles and

I was overwhelmed by the magnitude of the decision set before me. Well, maybe overwhelmed is the wrong word; more like scared shitless, although I later learned scared shitless isn’t the proper term. You see, “Mature” Christians call it, being convicted by the holy spirit. Which, oddly enough, is God and Jesus all rolled into one, but that is a theological discussion for another day, right now we’re talking about my childhood conversion. So, call it what you will, I was scared shitless! Now let me

Prior Pastoral Experiment: The Chinese Rites Controversy Christians in later periods adopted different strategies in regard to pre-evangelisation ancestors, taking seriously the cultures which had formed these beliefs: a simplistic rejection of their worldview was not adopted. As we have seen, reflection of the Descent was one such example. Another is the Chinese Rites controversy in which Jesuit missionaries to China permitted Chinese Christians to take part in Confucian rituals relating to their departed

The spiritual significance of illness and suffering is a topic Christians continue to grapple with, as Larchet points out in The Theology of Illness. Scripture offers a wealth of wisdom and cues for understanding illness, health, and healing from a Christian perspective. Larchet analyzes the various and often contradictory Christian positions on health and illness, revealing how attitudes have shifted over time and with changes in medical technology, practice, and ethics. For example, St. Barsanuphius