I’ve always loved old church buildings. There is just something about the smell, the atmosphere, the feeling that you get inside an old church, especially when you are alone inside the building. I’ll always remember the church that I grew up in. It was a new building, at least compared to the buildings around it [...]
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Conclusion How can truth be known absolutely? How can one make the statement “there is no absolute truth†without it being absolutely true? This is the paradox of modern and postmodern thought. Absolute truth is true absolutely, with no exceptions. Can someone claim to know God and yet adhere to postmodern thought? The subjective truth [...]
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Current Worldviews Studying Niebuhr’s types is important because it gives one a basic overview of how Christians react differently to the world around them. However, this only gives one a partial view of applying theology to culture. In addition to understanding how Christians respond one must also understand the issues that culture is facing. How [...]
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Niebuhr’s Five Viewpoints Niebuhr discusses at length in Christ and Culture how Christians have and do interact with the culture they live in. These five viewpoints are summarized below: Christ against culture This viewpoint holds that Christ is the sole authority and that the Christian owes no loyalty to culture.[1] This has the effect of [...]
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History The history of the modern Christian church begins with the story of Christ and the various accounts of work done by the apostles and other early teachers and missionaries. However, that history as recorded in the Bible ends in the first or second century after Christ’s ascension. As the church spread in the early [...]
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Thesis Statement The clash between Christianity and culture has existed ever since the beginning of the church. Sometimes Christians have had great influence on the culture, other times culture has greatly influenced Christianity. This constant tug-of-war between faith and “the world†defines the struggle many people of faith face every day. A more thorough knowledge [...]
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Over the next few days, I will be posting sections from my research paper for my Systematic Theology class at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. I’m pretty proud of this one. It is one of the few papers that I had done well before the due date, and because of this, I was able to let [...]
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(This was a book critique I wrote for my Systematic Theology class at LBTS. Got a 98 on it. Needless to say, I’m happy about it.) Introduction In God In The Wasteland, David F. Wells argues that we have transitioned “from a world in which God and his truth were accorded a central and often [...]
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Today, President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. For what you say? According to the Nobel committed, for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.” Have they not noticed that he’s only been President for nine months? Have they not noticed that he hasn’t really accomplished much of anything in [...]
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