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For centuries, the historicity of the book of the Acts has been questioned and criticized, prompting historians to label it "the storm center of modern New Testament study." Many scholars have suggested that the Acts…

M]an is directed to God, as to an end that surpasses the grasp of his reason... Whereas man's whole salvation, which is in God, depends upon the knowledge of this truth. Therefore, in order that the salvation of men…

How can so many people look into a portrait of a man, written by 4 different scholar and commoners who portray the man in very similar fashion, and come away with such diametrically opposing viewpoints that the man is…

Saint Thomas Aquinas was a thirteenth century Dominican monk: Soccio notes that "Dominicans were dedicated to education and to preaching to common people" (Soccio 219). It is this learned quality which permeates…

¶ … World War I and World War II, a great deal of interest has been paid to the German Christian Church and Movement. The focus of this discussion will be on the German Christian Church and movement, specifically the…

The Roman Catholic church is not generally considered doctrinally "broad," and indeed many of its most fascinating theological voices -- ranging from Pelagius in the fifth century to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., in…

This paper is a book review of Calvin, John. Calvin's "Institutes": A New Compend. Introduction by Hugh Ker (John Knox Press, 1989). It is composed partially of analysis and partially of summary of the materials. The paper suggests that Calvin's writings offer many insights into today's theological debates, even though he is no longer a fashionable theologian.

The concept of eternal security denotes that one who recognizes Christ as his Lord and Savior will be granted eternal salvation. However, some Christian scholars object to this perspective, instead arguing that this allows leniency for sinful behavior. The discussion here measures this view of conditional security against the concept of eternal security.

Three page paper on: Your friend Steve was very unsettled after reading the following quote from Clark Pinnock: "How can Christians possibly project a deity of such cruelty and vindictiveness whose ways include inflicting everlasting torture upon His creatures, however sinful they may have been? Surely a God who would do such a thing is more nearly like Satan than like God, at least by any ordinary moral standards, and by the gospel itself." Defines eternal damnation, annihilation, and universalism as well as sheol, hades, and gehanna.

Robinson, Haddon W. Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001.