For the unacquainted, the “Church of the Rock” is a church in Canada that puts on a yearly Christian play to allegorize Easter. Of course, they’re a little different in that they take popular movies and television shows and use those as the settings. I was going to write about how this is just wrong both … Continue reading
In yesterday’s post I wrote about how Christianity is more than following Jesus in some form of the Social Gospel, but deals with actually bringing people to Christ. I’ve thought more about that phrase that I used in the post (“bringing people to Christ”), mostly because I felt uncomfortable using it. I think the reason … Continue reading
The problem with modern Christian missions, in particular missions in the evangelical community, is that we’re developing missionaries who are far more concerned about saving the soul of a man than about saving the man himself, who stress the Hell to come while ignoring the Hell that is, who preach about a heavenly afterlife, but … Continue reading
From St. John of Damascus’ Fountain of Knowledge, works on philosophy, first paragraph of Chapter 67: Philosophy is knowledge of things which are in so far as they are; that is to say, a knowledge of their nature. Philosophy is a knowledge of divine and human things. Philosophy is a study of death, both that which … Continue reading
In reading through St. John of Damascus’ trilogy (Fountain of Knowledge, Heresies, and An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith) I am struck by a pattern that I believe Christians have missed. The first book, Fountain of Knowledge, deals with philosophy and logic. The entire book (about 60 pages) explains to readers in an lucid fashion how … Continue reading
APPLIED THEOLOGY SERIES Introduction | The Incarnation | The Image of God | The omniscience/omnipotence of God What is it? The image of God is a doctrine that isn’t exactly clear-cut, mainly because it’s never fully described in Scripture. Most theologians, however, define the Imago Dei (the Latin term for “image of God”) as the human … Continue reading
APPLIED THEOLOGY SERIES Introduction | The Incarnation | The Image of God | The omniscience/omnipotence of God What is it? One of the central aspects of Christian theology is the belief in the Incarnation – that Christ came down and became human, taking on a human nature, but keeping His divine nature. It is also … Continue reading
APPLIED THEOLOGY SERIES Introduction | The Incarnation | The Image of God | The omniscience/omnipotence of God I’m going to start a series (I’ll attempt to have the first post up tonight) on how to apply theology. Often times we spend great lengths discussing what a theology means, but I think we should also discuss the application of … Continue reading
