knowing god and relationship with him is one of the important theological issues in abraham`s religions. christianity believes that invisible god reflects in the incarnation of christ. in the christians` view, the jesus christ is the revelation of god. as a result, incarnation is one of the most important principles of christianity. the jews are opposed to incarnation but believe in anthropomor...

Living Theatre is the rather pretentious title given to certain works of stage whereby the stage itself can successfully disintegrate. If done with care, a performance with sufficient charisma may motivate an audience to give up its role as spectator and to become one with the experience.This is certainly an ambitious undertaking and, accordingly, an often unsuccessful one. However, for some jo...

Personal trust (fiducia) in the Lord Jesus Christ is traditionally considered one of three necessary components of the virtue of Dr. Erde/ is Archivist/(he%gica/ Christian faith (fides), along with Librarian, andAssociale Pttifossor cognitive belief (notitia) in Jesus o/Religion and Philosophy at the and volitional commitment Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana. He holds degrees from (assensus) ...

1. The significance of Phil 2:6–7. Numerous texts of the NT suggest, more or less straightforwardly, that Jesus Christ is very God. In the Gospel of John alone, for instance, one reads: “the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (1:1); “so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father” (5:23); “before Abraham was born, I am” (8:58); “I and the Father are one” (10:30); “he who see...

one of the most controversial issues in the history of church has been the debate about the ‘true nature’ of christ and his function in christianity. while the position of orthodox christianity regarding christology revolves mainly around the divine-human nature (known as the two natures) of christ, modern christian theology with its scientific orientation approaches the traditional doctrines o...

“All humanists agree that religion is not based on reason” [1a]. This statement, in many different forms, has been popularized for hundreds of years. A major purpose for the 1978-1979 modeling procedures introduced into theology is to establish that all such statements are false. Jesus Christ is Scripturally described as the “great God and Saviour,” “the only-begotten God,” “the image of the in...

Th e long-held critical judgment that the I-am sayings of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel have no connection at all with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth is based primarily on the inference that they are entirely missing from the Synoptics. As a result, John has been expunged from Jesus research, assuming its patent ahistoricity; yet critical analyses have largely overlooked JohannineSynoptic simi...