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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Have you ever been surprised by what you find in the Bible? Has God ever given you a revelation through the study of His word? Well, that happened to me this week and it was such a wonderful gift from above. This summer our home group has been having a phenomenal study on spiritual gifts. [...]
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4For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men? 5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7So [...]
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How often do we find ourselves waiting on an event to occur before we change anything? We wait for New Years Eve to start a new diet, we wait until next month to start a budget, we wait until our kids are older to take them to a specific place. We wait, we wait, we [...]
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Tiger Woods is a phenomenal golfer. OK, so that really isn’t news to anyone, but the reason why is what really makes him stand out. Tiger is driven to be the best and when he sets his mind on a goal, almost no single golfer can beat him. The worst thing to do is make [...]
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