Biblical Revelation: God’s Plan for the Nations
Essay Topics on Biblical Themes
Three Reasons to Study and Preach the Historical Books
The three reasons why we should study and preach the historical books are:
- They cover the whole counsel of God.
- They reveal God’s plan and show how His plan has been accomplished in history.
- They provide a framework for understanding the rest of the Bible.
Principles for Preaching from Old Testament Historical Books
There are several principles that should be followed when using Old Testament historical books in preaching:
Themes in Delibes’ Rural Tragedy: A Literary Analysis
Themes and Secondary Conflicts
This rural drama tragedy resolves a conflict between unequal samples, a conflict concerning the submission and innocence of the disinherited, a conflict between servants and masters, gentlemen. Delibes presents two ways of understanding the world and two conceptions of the relationship between man and nature.
- The servants, whose lives have always been in direct contact with the earth, in a spontaneous communion with the environment, have been allowed to understand what
Early Christian and Byzantine Art: Churches, Mosaics
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Introduction: Principles of Christianity
The religion founded by Jesus Christ, and extended by his followers, was based on a set of principles that were openly and fundamentally opposed to the religion and socio-political structure of the Roman world. These principles are:
- Monotheism or belief in one God. This principle was totally opposed to the Roman religion, not only because it was polytheistic, but because the exclusivity of worship to God was against the deification
Gratian’s Decretum: Sources and Influence
This field of inquiry is hampered by ignorance of the compiler’s identity and the existence of manuscripts with abbreviated or variant versions of the text, not represented by Winroth’s two recensions. One of these is the manuscript St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 (=Sg), which some have argued contains the earliest known version (borrador) of the Decretum.[12] However, other scholars have argued that it contains an abbreviation of the first recension, expanded with texts taken from the second recension.
Read MoreThe Beatitudes: A Path to Supreme Happiness
The Eight Beatitudes
- Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
- Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
- Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.
- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
- Blessed are they who are persecuted for
Augustine’s City of God: History, Theology, and Philosophy
History and City of God
In City of God, Augustine writes for 15 years after the sack of Rome by Alaric (410), to defend Christianity against the charge of causing the fall of Rome. This work presents history from the Christian viewpoint, focusing on salvation history through God. The history is divided into three times: past (before Christ), present (in Christ), and future (from Christ until the final union with the kingdom of God).
The Greeks had a cyclic concept of history, eternal, unlike the Christian
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