How Did Christianity Contribute To The Formation Of Religion

Reinhold Niebuhr was a very well-known and well respected American Theologian who conformed to Protestant school of thought . He was regarded as by some scholars as the one of the greatest Protestant theologians that United States of America saw after Jonathan Edwards .

Worldviews in Conflict is a short essay comparing Christianity to Naturalism, Christianity in a Post-Christian era, and Christianity in a Postmodern world. It is written by Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey. Charles Wendell Colson was an Evangelical Christian leader who founded Prison Fellowship and BreakPoint. Charles was converted and became a Christian in 1973. His mid-life conversion to Christianity sparked a life change that led him to found his non-profit ministry Prison Fellowship and to a focus on Christian worldview teaching and training. Charles was also known for being a public speaker and the author of more than 30 books. Nancy Randolph Pearcey is an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview. She is most well known for her work with Charles A Dangerous Grace: Daily Readings. Both these authors are beyond

The Christian worldview is a complex idea that covers several topics and splits off into various subcategories. The foremost viewpoints of Christians are their belief in God, Jesus, and the Trinity. Christians believe that human nature plays a significant role in their lives and the struggles all humans have. Jesus was trying to accomplish the restoration of the fallen world, and Christians draw on the teachings of Jesus today. This reflects a large portion of Christian worldview beliefs. This paper will attempt to explain Jesus, God, Humanity and the Restoration from the perspective of the Christian worldview, as well as analyzes the writer’s thoughts and reflect on her own beliefs.

When it comes to knowing and learning the religions of the world one must approach them with a critical mind. One cannot simply just believe every religion and know have their own view points. David Van Biema presents his ideas about Christianity and Jesus in “The Gospel Truth?”. Van Biema’s main point is about how “Matthew, Mark, Luke and John… is notoriously unreliable,” . Van Biema writes about how one cannot be completely sure about whether to believe if Jesus actually said what is written in the bible, he continues to say that Jesus may even be an “imaginative theological construct” . Van Biema presents several ideas that to him prove that those four gospels are unreliable and cannot be trusted. Van Biema presents a critical view point

Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with over two billion believers in this faith tradition, it is a religion recognized all over the world. Faith being referred to the

Religion and its various ideologies played a key role in advancing the authority of the Ottoman and Catholic Europe; it also influenced the way they confronted outside powers and people from other religions.

Bill McKibben in his essay “The Christian Paradox. How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong.” unmasks the paradox underlying Americans' Christianity. The ambiguity lies in the fact that the US is the most allegedly Christian among all developed nations and yet Americans remain the least Christian in their behavior. The author exposes American Christians for who they genuinely are providing numerous examples to validate his thesis, which states that the notion of being a good and dutiful Christian perceived by most Americans has in fact little to do with Jesus' teachings. McKibben manages to avoid harsh judgment or criticism, choosing to simply discuss the degradation of faith, allowing himself to be at times slightly sarcastic or ironic.

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The power of the church started to dominate when Constantine used its power to control his empire. Along the way, the church grew more and more powerful. With this growth, many within the church began to crave more power. This craving along with a variety of theological differences led to an eventual splintering of the church into many different belief systems. Also, with this power, came those who resisted them.

Jesus’s name has been banned from being taught in many countries around the world. However in these countries Christianity is steadily growing. The Holy Spirit, that is what gives persecuted Christ followers the courage to teach Jesus, is always around believers and un-believers: the Holy spirit cannot be banned. Believing this simple truth, we know that Christianity changes the individual, the culture, and the government. There is a plethora of tales of Christ changing people for; C.S. Lewis was a devout Atheist turned Christian. Culture, is the social norm in a group of people. Christ completely changed culture when he walked the earth as he hanged around harlots, and touched the diseased. To be expected to change culture as a Christian is

Through the Dark Ages, then through the Middle Ages, art, science, and religion had changed from Classical culture; art existed mainly for function, science was ultimately nonexistent, and religion had taken over the lives of the people. When the Middle Ages were ending, the church was losing power due to the Crusades, art began to be reborn, and science became relevant once more. These changes were brought about by three movements; the Protestant Reformation changed religion, the Renaissance changed art, and the Scientific Revolution changed science.

The First Great Awakening took place in the American colonies between 1730s to the 1770s. Unlike traditional Protestantism, the First Great Awakening teaching provided salvation to all people (Heyrman). The new Protestant teaching taught that anyone could accept Jesus Christ as their savior and thus were rewarded salvation. This message was applicable to everyone—young and old, rich and poor, man or woman. After this revival, religion took the center stage of each converted person’s life. Religion became the topic in the communities expressed through everyone. This transition from religion being only one aspect of a person’s life to becoming the theme illustrates how life changing the truth of salvation was. Also, the message of salvation brought

Christianity has the highest percentage of followers among all the world religions, but culture does not seem to be transformed by such a great number of people. It is, in fact, a person’s worldview that shapes society and not all Christians have a biblical worldview. The book The Transforming Vision by Brian J. Walsh and J. Richard Middleton discusses what a worldview means, what a biblical Christian worldview is, and the problem of dualism in society today. The goal of this book is to encourage Christians today to integrate their faith into every aspect of their lives.

Catholicism and Christianity, the religion of the Reformation, are similar in the God that they worship and in principles that are held. However, Christianity took the doctrines of the Catholic church and made belief in God a more personal experience in order for the believer to connect with God like one would with a friend or a father. Christianity's doctrine of solus Christus, justification by faith alone, and the priesthood of believers, lead to the ability to connect on a deeper level with God.

What is more, the Law is being replaced by love; the theocracy of the Jews makes place for family; God who was once king becomes the Father; the slave of sin become heirs of the kingdom and the fatherhood of God is no more limited to Israel only, but extended to all humankind. This contention between Judaism and Christianity within the Greco-Roman society appeals one to dig more into the culture of such society in the first century.