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individual undergoes spiritual formation or the disciplines that will lead to spiritual formation, still individuals throughout church history has sought to discover spiritual formation. Albeit, the term spiritual formation is a relatively new term, the concept is as old as the church itself. Regardless of what term an individual use, the important factor is the development of a person’s spiritual disposition. This paper will seek to explore the theological component of spiritual formation…

Justin, was an early Christian apologist (Wikipedia). He was born around 100 A.D. at Sychem, an ancient city of Samaria to pagan Greek parents. Justin displayed intelligence, his love for knowledge, and his devotion to the knowledge of Truth at a very young age. The Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church consider him to be a saint. His writings have standardized the foundation for a theology of history. Saint Justin defended the truth of Christian teaching,…

values. Too frequently, supporters within the existing spiritual formation society have faith in the spiritual self-controls that convert the Christian in participating into a transformed domain of consciousness. This perception pertaining to spiritual formation is constructing on a p assumption that when a Christian do some particular preparations, the Christian will become further like the Lord. Supporters to spiritual formation mistakenly impart that everyone could apply these mystical…

another great generation,” and he stated that the generation among Judas was the “generation of humanity,” that is defiled, (The Gospel of Judas, 2). The people are not fulfilling the expectations of God they are simply acting out of stupidity in terms of the entrapments of the earthly things. Jesus says “the souls of every human generation will die, when these people, however, have completed the time of the kingdom and the spirit leaves them, their bodies will die but their souls will be alive,…

religion and architectural evolution. Christianity plays a massive role in medieval cathedrals. Building the cathedrals requires hard work and motivation. The builders believed that cutting timber and hauling stone was an expression of Christian faith sprang from the very mind of God, who guided the hands of the builders. This is what motivated the builders to keep working. When Jesus of Nazareth was crucified in about A.D 33, Christianity…

emotion in multiple events in the book, while most of the people noticed that he had minimal to no emotion at all. Meursault is an indifferent person who doesn’t care whether he is married or not, with or without a job, in love or even hated by Christians. Since Meursault is so emotionless, he is constantly asking questions involving things that had just happened in his…

Chapter six of Practicing Christian Doctrine, by Beth Felker Jones, chiefly discusses Christology and the various heresies that have surrounded it over the years. Christology, which is the study of Christ, helps one to learn more about Jesus and his identity and how to live a good Christian life by forming a relationship with the Lord. In order for Christology to work, the person of Jesus must be known and a major idea discussed in this novel is homoousios, Jesus is full and truly God. Two other…

Throughout history Christians have struggled with many questions regarding their faith and theology. One in particular that Christians have tried to answer since the time of Apostle Paul is should Christians interact with culture and how do they interact with it? Many theologians, priests, saints, and radicals have fashioned their own approach to this question. But how is one supposed to remove him or herself from culture, if that is indeed what is required, when the pieces of culture are far…

following John Wesley’s death his essential teaching, Christian perfection, was being redefined by his contemporaries in more strictly western theological conceptions than Wesley had ever intended. As has already been seen, Wesley was more profoundly impacted by the teaching of the Eastern Orthodox Fathers than those of the Western Church. Nearly 200 years after Wesley, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop sought to reclaim the core of his conception of Christian perfection as one of relational holiness. In…

other than St. Paul the Apostle. Paul was at one point a persecutor of early Christians, however a revelation experience in the mid-30’s AD changed his view of the faith. He ultimately became the most prominent figure in the spread of early Christianity, as his many missions established Christian churches throughout the Roman Empire. During the time of his missions, Paul penned numerous letters to the various Christian communities that he had helped establish. Pauline writings were the earliest…