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…
It is easy for the preacher to identify with Jude’s letter to the church. Facing the world and church with the truth has always been the lot of men of God all the way back to Noah. Most Protestant scholars agree that the author of the book was Judas the 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…
It is hard to find a statement of faith that directly uses The Book of Hebrews when addressing salvation. This is because, with salvation as the topic, more often texts like Galatians 2:15-21 are used. A text which Luther called “… the principal article of all Christian doctrine, wherein the Read more…
Escobar’s Thesis Samuel Escobar is a missions minded individual. All of his theological framework is bound up in the global missions project he has dedicated his life to. To separate his theology from his missiology would leave very little of value. Escobar was born in 1936 in Arequipa in Read more…
Introduction The three main forms of liberation theology as outlined by Grenz and Olson are Black Liberation Theology, Latin American Liberation Theology and Feminist Theology (Grenz, Olson, 1992). Liberation Theology seems to have had most of its conception in the 1960’s when the world was in a state of class Read more…
Theological work faces a challenge in that only the new born soul that Jesus told Nicodemus of can really grasp the truth (John 3:1-21, NIV). All souls that have not been reborn “suppress the truth” (Romans 1:18). Process and Secular theology are then working to bridge a gap that cannot Read more…
Introduction The Nature of Neo-Orthodoxy is that there is no objective or ultimate truths. Instead of truth there is guidelines and pointers found in myth and existence. Neo-Orthodoxy was a theology developed in reaction to liberal thinking. In liberal theology there is a stress on the immanence of God 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…