Evangelicalism Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, trans-denominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, solely through faith in Jesus’s atonement. Evangelicals believe in the centrality of the conversion or “born again” experience in receiving salvation, in the authority of the Bible as...
Christian Science Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements. It was developed in 19th-century New England by Mary Baker Eddy, who argued in her 1875 book Science and Health that sickness is an illusion that can be corrected by prayer alone. The book became Christian Science’s central text, along with the Bible,...
Theodicy And The Bible Relating theodicy and the Bible is crucial to understanding Abrahamic theodicy because the Bible “has been, both in theory and in fact, the dominant influence upon ideas about God and evil in the Western world”. Theodicy, in its most common form, is the attempt to answer the...
Soteriology Soteriology (σωτηρία sōtēria “salvation” from σωτήρ sōtēr “savior, preserver” and λόγος logos “study” or “word”) is the study of religious doctrines of salvation. Salvation theory occupies a place of special significance in many religions. In the academic field of religious studies, soteriology is understood by scholars as representing a key theme in a number of different religions...
Geocentric Model In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, often exemplified specifically by the Ptolemaic system) is a superseded description of the Universe with Earth at the center. Under the geocentric model, the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets all orbited Earth. The geocentric model was the predominant description of the cosmos in...
What Is Creationism? Creationism is the religious belief that the universe and life originated “from specific acts of divine creation“, as opposed to through natural processes, such as evolution. Creationism covers a spectrum of views including evolutionary creationism, but the term is commonly used for literal creationists who reject various aspects of...
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Biblical Cosmology Biblical cosmology is the biblical writers’ conception of the cosmos as an organised, structured entity, including its origin, order, meaning and destiny. The Bible was formed over many centuries, involving many authors, and reflects shifting patterns of religious belief; consequently, its cosmology is not always consistent. Nor do the biblical texts necessarily represent the beliefs of all Jews or Christians at the time...
Christ The Power Of God And The Wisdom Of God This article covers the relationship between Christ The Power Of God And The Wisdom Of God. ‘Jews demand signs, and Greeks seek wisdom; but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to who...
Two Kinds Of Wisdom Teachers Wisdom concerns a way of life, a path, a way of seeing reality. Wisdom is a way of seeing ourselves and our lives in relation to reality. ~ Marcus Borg Wisdom comes in two forms: conventional and alternative. Wisdom teacher as a cross-cultural religious personality Wisdom teachers are...
Christ, Our Wisdom Israel’s Wisdom and Its Fulfillment in Christ Wisdom in the New Testament The word wisdom in the Bible is a technical term whose meaning we easily take for granted. The problem arises when we define biblical terms on the basis of our own human experience and use...
Jesus – The Wisdom Of God If Jesus is the Word of God, it follows that he is also the Wisdom of God. For where God’s Word is, there is also his Wisdom. In meditating on the various names and titles of Jesus in the Holy Scripture, we want to...
Wisdom According To Christianity This article covers Wisdom According To Christianity. Wisdom may be best defined as that good judgment which uses knowledge appropriately for a beneficial outcome. Knowledge is like having a computer and wisdom is like utilizing the computer to accomplish desirable goals. Thus, wisdom may be regarded...
Christ – Wisdom Personified The identification of Jesus with the personified Wisdom of Proverbs 8 extends well back into the early church. The writings of Justin, Cyprian, Origen, Arius, Athanasius and others display the extent to which the doctrine of Christ as Wisdom permeated the early church. The Jerusalem Bible...
Book of Wisdom The original text of the Book of Wisdom is preserved in five uncial manuscripts (the Vaticanus, the Sinaiticus, the Alexandrinus, the Ephremiticus, and the Venetus) and in ten cursives (two of which are incomplete). One of the deutero-canonical writings of the Old Testament, placed in the Vulgate...
Should We Acquire Wisdom Or Not? This article is about “Should We Acquire Wisdom Or Not?“. Wisdom can be acquired only through experience, but by itself, experience does not automatically confer wisdom. Researchers are probing the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that transmute experience into wisdom. Proverbs 4:7 The beginning...
The Greatest Commandment And The Parable Of The Good Samaritan Jesus engaged in much public debate with the Pharisees and Sadducees, two Jewish factions that opposed Him and his teachings. It was during one of these debates that Jesus stated the Greatest Commandment: One of the teachers of the law...
The Highest Wisdom… (Jesus Christ) This article, The Highest Wisdom… (Jesus Christ), is an Editor’s Note: The text below was written by Adolph Saphir in his work Christ Crucified; Lectures on 1 Corinthians “…To know “Jesus Christ and Him crucified” is not the minimum of knowledge but the maximum of...
The Spiritual Wisdom And Practices Of Early Christianity This book, written by Alphonse Goettmann and Rachel Goettmann covers The Spiritual Wisdom And Practices Of Early Christianity. FOREWORD What is Christianity? This is a perennial question about which there are many divergent views among Christians themselves, which also explains the variety...
When Nothing Works Try The Spirit Of Wisdom When nothing works turn to the spirit of wisdom for help. Spiritual Growth The baptism of the Holy Ghost is important. Christ told his revolutionary followers after His resurrection “they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the...
Angelic Wisdom Concerning The Divine Love And Divine Wisdom Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1763) is one of Swedenborg’s most popular works in which, in addition to discussing the nature of God, he examines the purpose of creation and the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds. One of the...