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These topics crop up repeatedly in Christian theology; composing the main recurrent 'loci' around which Christian theological discussion revolves. Bible (Holy Scripture) – the nature and means of its inspiration , etc.; including hermeneutics (the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts and the topic ...
Catholic Church – also known as the Roman Catholic Church; the world's largest Christian church, with more than 1.3 billion members. Eastern Catholic Churches – autonomous, self-governing (in Latin, sui iuris) particular churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. Latin Church – Western and largest autonomous Catholic Church
Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christian belief and practice. [1] It concentrates primarily upon the texts of the Old Testament and of the New Testament, as well as on Christian tradition. Christian theologians use biblical exegesis, rational analysis and argument. Theologians may ...
These include models of the Church as institution, as mystical communion, as sacrament, as herald, and as servant. [9] The ecclesiological model of Church as an institution holds that the Catholic Church alone is the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church", and is the only Church of divine and apostolic origin led by the Pope. This view of ...
Anderson quotes John Swinton as defining practical theology as “critical reflection on the actions of the church in light of the gospel and Christian Tradition.” [4] Swinton cites Don Browning's definition of practical theology as “the reflective process which the church pursues in its efforts to articulate the theological grounds of ...
Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler all considered themselves Christian. St.Thomas Aquinas, the Church's "model theologian", argued that reason is in harmony with faith, and that reason can contribute to a deeper understanding of revelation, and so encouraged intellectual development. [225]
The U.S. use of the term worldview in Christian rhetoric can be traced to the evangelical Reformed philosopher H. Evan Runner of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [dubious – discuss] Runner used the term in his evangelical Reformed community in North America, promoting the worldview concept from a philosophical concept to a synonym ...
Essays and Reviews, published by John William Parker in March 1860, [1] is a broad-church volume of seven essays on Christianity. The topics covered the biblical research of the German critics, the evidence for Christianity, religious thought in England, and the cosmology of Genesis .