Committee on Ministry October 1‚ 2012 Committee on Ministry Kansas-Oklahoma Conference Part One Personal Theology “Theology of Community” In this paper‚ I am going to share my ideas of theology. I believe that one of the biggest mistakes I made in the past was that I was afraid of being rejected‚ so I wrote a theology paper and tried to give the previous COM what I thought they wanted to hear instead of what was truly inside of me. Fortunately for me
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Christian theology. Unlike the dogmas that define the theology of trinity and incarnation and bring unity to Christian understanding‚ the theology of atonement has many different views that are widely held. The theology of atonement is one of the most important for Christians to understand‚ as it shapes our images of God‚ our understanding of salvation and how we are saved. In this essay‚ I will be looking at different theories of atonement and how they make a difference to our theology of salvation
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I. INTRODUCTION Election plays a very significant role in our lives. As the famous saying goes “No man is an island” we cannot but to belong to a community‚ we even belong to a family which is the basic unit of the community or society. Within the community in which we belong‚ in a broader sense‚ there has to be a leader who guides and direct his/her people. On the other hand‚ the people also have to choose a particular leader who is committed and competent enough or else there will be chaos and
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Suffering Andrew Simedru Period 5 Throughout all of history‚ suffering has been the stumbling block of humanity. Different peoples and cultures have tried to define the act of suffering but it remains a problem for philosophers and a harsh test of faith. It is not natural to see any profit in suffering. Mankind staggers over it‚ considering it a tragedy‚ an interruption to progress‚ and ultimately fate to be avoided. According to the Bible‚ it is the will of God that believers should suffer
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Descending Theology: The Resurrection The way poets use poetic devices help to create the meaning and hinder our understanding to their poem. Understanding a poem has mush to do with how it is read by the reader. If the poetic devices used by the poet when writing are over looked it is going to cause a much different understanding. “Descending Theology: The Resurrection” by Marry Karr uses many poetic devices to add to the depth of the poem. This poem is set up as a sonnet in closed form‚ using
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Approach the word Hispanic is a controversial because in Latin American exists linguistic‚ ethnic‚ social‚ political‚ economic and weather differences‚ so it is not possible to speak of a uniform block. I am going to focus in Centro America and Mexico‚ because those groups are the ethnic majority in Boston. As is the common knowledge‚ Those countries were colonized by the Spain in the fifth century. These colonization brought a history of persecution and submission of the people whom originally
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The Suffering of Frankenstein Frankenstein makes clear of Frankenstein’s innocence before everything becomes tragic. The reader is shown his largely happy and privileged childhood‚ his blameless obsession with knowledge‚ and how he arrived at studying what would soon become his downfall. When Frankenstein creates the monster the immediate effect is his disappointment and exhaustion. He is sickened by his own work and regrets the creation from the moment he saw it in the way everyone else will see
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Licia Canole May 9‚ 2013 Period: 8 Suffering Reflection Throughout our lives we all experience suffering. It is one of the many things that make us human. If we never experience suffering‚ we would never be able to relate to others or learn to be compassionate. No one wants to be with someone that they cannot relate to on some level. For some people‚ a time of suffering makes you closer to your faith‚ but for many others it causes a strain and makes us want to pull away from God. This brings
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This quote reveals itself true in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov’s journey through suffering seems hopeless as he faces either a life in prison or a life of insanity. With both options seemingly devoid of any lasting relief or happiness‚ the protagonist learns that he still has an opportunity to live a satisfactory life‚ even after all of the wrong he has done and suffering he has went through. In the beginning of the novel‚ Dostoevsky introduces a very distressed and paranoid
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Theology Anointing of the sick 1. When should anointing of the sick be administered? Who may receive this sacrament? The anointing of the sick should only be administered when the person is dying or has a serious illness. Anyone who have received the sacrament of baptism and has reached the age of reason (age of seven) could receive this sacrament provided that he or she is in grave danger of death due to sickness or old age‚ not necessarily at the point of death. 2. How does the physical sickness
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