Christian Vision Of A Person By Patrick Mcardle

Question of Identity: What does it mean to be human? Are humans more important than animals?

In this paper, I will review Charles Ryrie’s book The Holy Spirit. I will detail what I feel the book is about. I will emphasize various points given by the author that stood out to me. Finally, I will give my personal evaluation of the book.

The first chapter of Christian Thought and Practice, by Natalie Kertes Weaver introduced theology of Christianity. This was broken up into five major topics. The topics are: terms used in the study of religion, a functional understanding of Christian theology, facets of Christian theology, types of theology, and audiences and practitioners of Christian thought. The author explains the importance in detail of all of the above points.

Many people would agree that without faith, the world would be in chaos. The book Christian Foundation by Kathleen Fischer and Thomas Hart gives an interpretation on faith in our time. Many people would question the definition of faith. Faith is a gift, which is given by God to have trust in him and belief in him. This book is a great entry in anyone's life that has speculation on his or her own faith. The book has many ways into understanding ones own religion. It discusses the Bible, Jesus, Church, God's existence and Images of God. All of these chapters helped me get a better interpretation of what my religion entailed.

One of the many things that puzzle people even today; is how Jesus was portrayed and how he became a part of history throughout the centuries. Fortunately, within the book Jesus Through the Centuries, written by Jaroslav Pelikan, readers are able to get a sense of what societies viewed Jesus as and how he was/is important to many aspects of the world such as; the political, social, and cultural impact he had left. As Pelikan discusses this very topic and theme in his book, we see how there’s a connection between his audience in this book and Jesus’s are closely similar. When he got his motivation to write about Jesus through the Centuries, Jaroslav had an open audience, which was intended for anyone of all ages, races, and beliefs to read

Award-winning journalist, Lee Strobel wrote The Case for Christ to retrace and enlarge his journey toward becoming a Christian. Strobel once atheist, and now Christian, shares how he began to look upon the Bible and God. As an atheist, Strobel lived the life of selfishness and only worried to please himself. When his wife began to go to church he wasn’t very pleased until after he saw the positive and attractive change in her. This is the start of his curiosity and investigation about Christianity. He wanted to understand what changed her like this. He wanted to relate with his wife so he decided to study about this and attend church services with her. Strobel began his journey and interviewed thirteen leading scholars who defended their views concerning the historical reliability of the New Testament. Strobel splits the case for Christ into three basic sections: Examining the Record, Analyzing Jesus, and Researching the Resurrection.

A proper assessment from a biblical-anthropological perspective needs to take into account the image of God as part of human nature. The three dimensions of the image of God (relational, structural and functional) form the core of human nature. Humans are relational beings with the structural capacity to relate to others and fulfill their purpose in this life. These three dimensions were damaged or affected after the Fall. As discussed previously, normality and pathology are connected with the sinful human condition.

Award-winning journalist, Lee Strobel wrote The Case for Christ to retrace and expand his journey toward becoming a Christian. Strobel once declared atheist, and now Christian, shares how he began to look upon the Bible and God. As an atheist, Strobel lived the life of selfishness and only worried to please himself. When his wife began to go to church he wasn’t very pleased until after he saw the positive and attractive change in her. This is the start of his curiosity and investigation about Christianity. To relate with his wife he decided to study about this and attend church services with her. Strobel interviewed thirteen leading scholars who defended their views concerning the historical reliability of the New Testament.

To get a sense of what it is to be human, at least in the evolutionary world, we need only to compare our modern selves to our ancestors such as the Neanderthals. The Neanderthals were our closest hominin relative and died out thousands of years ago. Like us, they walked on two legs, hunted , made fire and tools, and lived in shelters (caves). They were more advanced than many of us imagine they were thanks to the way they are portrayed in the media. They had brains similar in size to ours, they stood fully upright (not hunched over), and had a surprisingly complex culture. When asked what it means to be human, you can compare many different aspects of our lives, such as biology, culture, and even religious beliefs. We obviously have

“The Gospel for Those Broken by the Church” by Dr. Ron Rosenbladt is a presentation that focuses on those who have left the church behind and no longer associate themselves with it. He categorizes those who have left into two sections: “sad” alumni and “mad” alumni. Sad alumni are those people who really wanted to believe but never could really get it right, while mad alumni are those who were “conned” by the church into giving themselves over to Christ and trying to believe and then when things didn’t quite work out, they were tossed away. This presentation focuses on how to bring people like this back to the faith, both the sad and mad alumni.

Schindler’s List, by Thomas Keneally, is among the most significant literary works covering the Holocaust. The novel is a biography of Oskar Schindler (1908–74). Keneally strived to preserve the authenticity of the people and events of his novel, attempting to avoid fiction at all costs, however surly specific dialogues were reimagined using reasonable constructs of detailed recollections of people who experienced these events first hand. The story follows the Czechoslovakian businessman as he rescues Jews from the German ruling Nazi party during WW2. Although originally a member of the German the Nazi party, Schindler had many Jewish acquaintances as well as business associates. Horrified when he learns of the Nazi plans of eradicating Jews from Europe in entirety, Schindler dedicates himself to saving anyone he could. Schindler went about this through hiring Jewish workers for his privately owned factory in Poland. He utilizes bribes as well as his friends in high places within the German political scene to ensure his workers safety. Ultimately, towards the conclusion of the war Schindler was responsible for saving many lives that were destined to end if it wasn’t for his intervention. After WW2 Schindler continued to be honored by the European Jewish community, as well as the Jewish communities around the world, and after his death he was buried in Jerusalem as a reminder of his actions.

Although Moltmann discusses various aspects of humanity in his earlier works, he does not address the Genesis 1 narrative that describes the creation of humanity until The Church in the Power of the Spirit. Here, he affirms a traditional interpretation of the creation account in Genesis 1:27, that humanity is created in God’s image to rule over creation. However, for Moltmann, this rule does not make humanity like God nor equal to Him, nor does it give humans unlimited power in the earth, nor over fellow humans. The restrictions placed upon humanity by God are important to Moltmann’s theological anthropology because love towards the other in central to his view of humanity, an aspect that will be discussed later in this

Everything created has specie specific qualities. Human beings are closely linked to animals because of the similarities of these specie specific qualities, but these alone do not make humans animals or animals humans. While there are quite a few characteristics that are similar there are enormous differences. One is

There are several important aspects which make us human person. In the chapter on “spirituality and the present climate”, Leech through observing the ‘Spiritual Quest of Youth’ concludes that the modernists and the post-war decades fell into a spiritual search in the 1960s. However, the spiritual search almost rejected Christianity as a possibility. It was frequently argued at that time that “the future of humanity was ‘non-religious’, that society was secularized.” (p.2) Leech comments that alongside this rejection of traditional Christian religion there was a noticeable “Jesus movement” sub-culture. Leech identifies in the movements on both sides of the Atlantic that “they are marked most of all by a strong sense of a personal relationship to Jesus, and are dominated by hope of his future return.” (p.16) As a human, we are

The anthropological study of personhood deals with how varied cultures understand the concept of a human being in a given community and across the world. They try to address questions such as: ‘What defines a human being? Does a person have an inner self? What are these constituted in the perspective of the personal self?’ and etc (Jurg and Joachim, 2013: 233). Durkheim (1964: 270) in his book the Elementary Forms of the Religious Life ‘localizes the person somewhere between the socially determined community soul and individualizing body’. He argues that the