Introduction The dual nature of Christ, what would come to be defined as his full humanity and full deity, developed over the first 400 years of Christianity. Christ’s identity was a hotly debated issue. It was so hotly debated that when the first Christian emperor took power, he understood that Read more…
John, the Gospel, is full of Christology because all correct theology begins and ends with Christ. John, the author, correctly understands that a distortion in understanding who Christ is is the most dangerous thing that can happen to the church. John wastes no time in getting started with Christology in Read more…
Persecution was a reality of life for early Christians and the biblical authors did not leave their flocks without guidance about it. If there is one word that would sum up what Hebrews, James, and 1 Peter say about the subject of persecution that word would be endurance. To endure Read more…
What Brush Should one use? Aaron T. Hale Why did the “… fledgling Pentecostals considered the Azusa revival, … to be Pentecostalism’s central point of origin?” (Creech, 1996. p. 405). This is the central question to answer when talking about Pentecostal history. It is an interesting question since there have Read more…
Both liberal and Fundamental theology has its earmarks that can be explored. Obviously there has been disagreement over the details however in the fundamentalist camp there were always certain values like the sovereignty of God, the infallibility of scripture and the immutability of God (Shelley, 2013, p. 420). Though there Read more…
All isms are based on human understanding. The goal here is to see the link between many isms and how they affected the world and Christianity in their time. The first and probably the loudest in terms of bloody wars were Marxism, Communism, Nazism, and Totalitarianism. These Isms are connected Read more…
The lens of the future is the best measure for the past, in other unavoidably cliché words, hind sight is twenty-twenty. Looking back at the age of modernism from the age of post-modernism it is easy to see the trail that led to the current Hansel and Gretel captivity. The Read more…
It is hard to overstate the significance of the Great Awakening: it was a cultural, social, and governmental change. Shelley called it the new order and perhaps its affects are best seen when viewed against the backdrop of the infant American nation (Shelley, 2013, p. 358). The Protestant Reformation had Read more…
Introduction The term Protestant stands for ‘those that protest’, it was not meant as a compliment by those that bestowed it however it fit the new band of Christians well and soon it would be the name by which all knew them. Luther may have started the reformation with a Read more…
It seems that Martin Luther is quoted on every subject from economics to sexuality. Perhaps that is a good approach for this question as well. There are two very famous quotes attributed to Marten Luther that sum up what his greatest impact was. First at his trial in 1521 Luther Read more…