Fuller Theological Seminary

What do I want to be when I grow up? Am I doing what I really want to do for the rest of my life? Is being a youth pastor my calling in life? Did I make the right choice to come to seminary? Why am I forcing myself to go to church? Why am I dragging myself to finish seminary? These were some of the questions that I struggle to answer throughout my four years in seminary. As a pastor’s child without a direction and purpose, I was pushed into attending Fuller Theological Seminary right after I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of California, San Diego at the age of 21. I was hired as a junior high pastor a week after I was accepted into the seminary at a Korean American church located in Fullerton where the senior pastor…

Richard Mouw, the author of When the Kings Come Marching In, was a graduate of Houghton College. He studied at Western Theological Seminary and got his Master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Alberta. Mouw is the author of over twenty books, including The God Who Commands, The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship, and The Smell of Sawdust. He was the editor of the Reformed Journal and has served on many editorial boards. In 2007, Mouw was given the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence…

Many Jewish (Hasidic?) traditions appear in The Chosen by Chaim Potok. All throughout the book, they play a big role in what Danny and Reuven, the main characters, must go through. Often, Danny is the one who has the traditions almost forced on him. However, because Reuven became Danny’s closest friend, much of it affects him too, at least to some extent. Danny specifically struggles throughout the book, as much of his life has been picked for him by his family according to their traditions. In…

Rav. Jacob Kalman, one of Reuven’s teachers who has survived a Nazi death camp has Reuven choose between his views and his father’s view. Rav Kalman has seen Reuven at The Zechariah Frankel Seminary meeting with Abraham Gordon and tells him he should not meet with Gordon because he has been excommunicated for his books that question the foundations of Judaism or set foot in The Zechariah Frankel Seminary ever again because it unclean. Rav. Kalman tells Reuven that he cannot agree with his father…

McClymond, Kathryn. “The Chosen: Defining American Judaism.” Shofar, vol. 25, no. 2, 2007, pp. 4–23., www.jstor.org/stable/42944233. In this work, the author describes her emotions as she read The Chosen for the first time as an adolescent. McClymond goes into detail about the biographical information concerning Chaim Potok. She also discusses the details of Potok leaving the very traditional and strict practice of the Hasidic Jewish population. Potok would seek a less religious education as he…

Chaim Potok, born February 17, 1929, was a Jewish Rabbi and author. After his Jewish education and rabbinic ordination, Potok graduated with a phd in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. Shortly afterward, he published his first book, The Chosen. In the Chosen, Chaim Potok uses setting and its description to emphasize the character’s change and growth, symbolism to convey to the reader Danny’s difficult upbringing, and in the end expresses the motivation behind such a method of…

Paul Tillich was considered an intellectual German American Christian existentialist theologian, who impacted theology in the 20th century. Given his background, Paul grew under a Lutheran Pastor, Johannes his father. He studied theology and attended seminary and earned two Doctorates at the age of 21. He enlisted in the German army as a Chaplain and was placed on the deadliest post in this war. Here he wrote his father stating, “Hell is all around us. It’s unimaginable” (Taylor 2017). This…

Sub point 1: But there are those that are even worse than that. According to End Homelessness, in January 2014, there were 578,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States. Of that number, 216,000 are people in families, 362,000 are individuals and about 9 percent of homeless people - 49,933 - are veterans. Transition (signpost, summary, preview): Now I have gone over a few problems, lets examine habitat for humanity and its effort to reduce these issues. G. Main…

molecule they began to think about a possible structure. The whole team had multiple talks about the possible structure, but what they finally decided on was that it was some sort of spheroid.2 This made Kroto think about the Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes.2 He checked out a book that contained all of Buckminster Fuller’s dome structures and began flipping through the pages.2 He began to think that maybe the structure contains pentagonal sides and not just hexagonal sides.2 It was not until…

Dancing is one of the few things in this world that you can 't put a time table on to find its origin. We can guess that dancing has been around since the beginning of the human race and even before in other species. It is a trait that has been programmed into us as a species. We learned that beauty is pre-programmed trait among people that carries on throughout time from generation to generation. You must thing of another form of beauty other than paintings and sculptures, and that form is…