Theories and Approaches
THE BLACK DEATH Source: http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever The bubonic plague also known as the Black Death—because of the way it discolored the body, was the worst disaster of the fourteenth century. After…
There is a universal tendency found in every culture. Regardless of time or place humans have believed in the existence of a higher reality; a greater force that exceeds the…
According to many scholars the authors of the Synoptic Gospels are unknown. It is believed that the names Matthew, Mark, and Luke were attributed to the books at some point…
William Harmless is professor of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He has published his research on monasticism in the journals of Theological Studies, Church History, and Studia Patristica.…
It is clear that the story of redemption, that is, the promise of a new covenant, made by God in the Old Testament, had been left unfinished. God’s promise to…
In his book, The Formation of Christian Doctrine, Malcolm B. Yarnell attempts to disclose how the formation of Christian doctrine developed from a theological foundation. Moreover, Yarnell aspires to reveal…
The early church fathers viewed the doctrine of apostolic succession as a very important factor for the church. The apostolic traditions are the unwritten oral traditions of Christ’s teachings passed…
William Appleman Williams was a revisionist historian who interpreted the open-door policy as a strategy which would “set the terms of international competition in ways that played to America’s strong…
