Revelations: Persona

this person ought to explain how God reveals Godself, especially through the Biblical text, but also potentially through creation. God revealing Godself through the God’s Word is also known as Special Revelation; whereas, God revealing God’s personality through creation is known as General Revelation or Natural Theology. First and foremost, there is a significant debate concerning the possibility of Natural Theology. Emil Bruner and Karl Barth famously debated this in the 1930’s as Barth argued that

analogy of faith, an inbreaking from the top down miracle of grace . But while Barth claims Natural theology as an irrelevant for revelation, Natural theology is the condition of possibility of the human side of revelation. This will be shown through a critical examination of Barth’s doctrine of revelation, an appropriation of Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of revelation and an exploration of Pannenberg’s theological method. In beginning to explore the possibility for a natural theology one must

DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON DIVINE REVELATION Dei Verbum Solemnly Promulgated by His Holiness, Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965 The full text is available at http://www.cin.org/v2revel.html Numbers in square brackets [x] are footnotes which are found at the end of the document. PREFACE 1. Hearing the word of God with reverence and proclaiming it with faith, the sacred synod takes its direction from these words of St. John: "We announce to you the eternal life which dwelt with the Father

In a secular world where God is hidden, Christians must determine their own course of action and the Christian God often demands obedience that transcends understanding as Isaiah writes "his understanding is unsearchable." Perhaps Christian faith is best pursued when Christians recognize the absurdity of their faith and openly acknowledge that there is no overwhelmingly victorious argument for God. Although this may seem heretical, this acknowledgement shows the world, riddled with God 's absence

For centuries, Africans and their belief systems have been derided. Instead of being studied as “valid and meaningful responses to the universal terms of human existence,” African religions have often been considered “exotic objects… peculiar and incomprehensible or repellent.” For many Europeans, Christianity was by far the superior religion, and they strove to convert Africans. One kingdom where they seemed to enjoy success was Kongo. By 1704, the people living there had been Catholic “for six

Please know atheism is blind because they want to be and don’t bend to the Creator of things and entities like ourselves. Please know this is an article in response to a picture of flowers created by Him, Please know each of us is a flower to Him and we must be protected as such. Please see the following caption on my heart. I write with Him as my guide but people call me intelligent. Omar. Please see that atheism is blind. Please know in the creation of mankind there is an order. Please know the

On the other hand the first statement I choose that exemplifies my life experience is “I feel attracted and drawn or called to a spiritual journey” (Atchley, 2009, p. 64). There may be a stage in an individual’s life where they can be unfulfilled with the direction of their personal trajectory. I genuinely believe that the contemporary main-stream society we reside in places too much emphasis upon the pursuit/accumulation of material possessions, endeavoring to maintain a youthful appearance, the

In this household-world God is dispensing or administering its affairs according to His own will and in various stages of revelation in the process of time.” Dr. Mitchell defines the hermeneutical basis of Dispensationalism as an inductive interpretation of the Scriptures. Beginning with the book of Genesis, Dispensationalism is built on determining the progressive revelation of

Walton’s Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament, he writes, “ With no revelation . . . there was no way to know what pleased and what angered . . . This is the plight of those who live in a world without revelation. In the end, for all of their conscientious ritual, they did not know what deity wanted” (p. 145). Please post a 400-word response to Walton’s statement. Discuss the importance of revelation to God and the biblical writers. Seek to answer questions like “Was it important for

Likewise, God in his creation left shadows of the Beatific Vision which point to truth in Natural revelation. By searching for this truth, Socrates caught glimpses of those shadows. Even the truth which he did reach, it was imperfect. Socrates speaks about a heavenly “banquet” where the immortal souls go to feast. When they do that, they travel up, to