Athanasian Creed Essays

  • Comparing The Athanasian Creed And The Westminster Confession Of Faith

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    The major creeds and confessions that influenced this paper are the Athanasian Creed and the Westminster Confession of Faith. These confessions both include sections on God the Father and the Trinity, and they depict how the Father moves while elaborating on the nature of the Trinity. One foundational text that illuminates the nature of God the Father is Isaiah 64:8. Isaiah espouses that the Father is the creator of all things, and humans are like clay, masterfully and skillfully molded by the craftsmanship

  • Summary: A Critique Of Milton's Paradise Lost

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    A Whole New World (A Critique of Milton’s Theology) Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the most important pieces of literature because of its literary quality and its controversial relationship to theology. He is rather controversial with his portrayal of biblical figures. By rejecting the Trinity and depicting God and the Son as two separate beings, Milton creates a new theology. Through his use of this theology, Milton shows the Son’s rise to glory through action and character, a concept that gives

  • Nicene Christianity: The Council Of Nicaea, Constantinople, And Chalcedon

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    Christianity A creed is an announcement or confession of confidence and conviction. The Ecumenical councils utilized creed, or ideology, as various approaches to express their convictions of Christianity, including how they saw Jesus Christ. The Council of Nicaea, Constantinople, and Chalcedon all had diverse perspectives. There were four noteworthy statements of faith that showed the distinctive perspectives of Jesus and God: The Nicene Creed, the apostles’ creed,

  • Nicene Creed Essay

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    The Nicene Creed came about at the council of Nicaea around AD 325. Many things were discussed at the council and formulations of the canon, as well as the Nicene Creed took place. Though the creed would eventually be modified to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed as we know it today, theological and doctrinal claims were made about Christianity. Several issues were addressed in the creed to dissipate heresy and ignorance as well as to unify the church in thought and action. We believe in one

  • Orthodox Theology Of The Incarnation Essay

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    Incarnation throughout history, for limpidity sake, we will attempt to track an orthodox consensus, maintaining relevant creedal affirmations. Both the Nicene and Chalcedonian Creeds were the result of many direct contact hours with Scripture, rigorous debates, and have been used to establish orthodoxy ever since. Thus it is to these creeds and subsequent orthodox thinkers that we will hold to for this paper. Throughout orthodoxy we can find six theological areas attributed to the incarnation. These are:

  • The Portrayal Of Nationalism In Rocky IV And Miracle

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    Apollo Creed and Ivan Drago fight in Las Vegas. Elements such as Apollo’s entrance to the ring can be viewed as nationalism because it was very ostentatious, with singing, dancing, and lots of theatrics such as smoke machines, hyping up Apollo Creed. While on the other hand, the movie was discrediting Drago for entering the ring while it was underground and no one could see him until Apollo’s entrance. The difference in their warm up gear can be another example of nationalism, Apollo Creed had a flashy

  • Personal Narrative: Lebanon United Methodist Church

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    service, a Krispy Kreme fundraiser for the youth trip, the total offering taken in Sunday school and so on and so forth. Following this was something totally new again. Pastor Neil asked the members to stand and recite the Apostles Creed with him. I’d never heard of the Creed, let alone knew the words to it. So I listened as the voices, young and old, high and low, recited what they believed in and how they interpreted the Holy Bible. They ended with amen and I was surprised. None of what they said contradicted

  • Rocky IV: Hardships Of The Cold War

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    film focuses on then tensions of the Cold War in the shadows of Ivan Creed and Rocky Balboa, but more importantly, it focuses on the hidden message that despite the two countries friction, change is still possible. Rocky IV emphasizes the distress of the Cold War behind the main characters of the story. Soviet Union’s famous boxer, Ivan Drago, announces his entry into the international boxing world early in the film. Apollo Creed hears this and

  • The Nicene Creed And Accepted Declarations Of The Christian Religion

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    The Nicene Creed is one of the most universally recognized and accepted declarations of the Christian religion. It was first accepted at The Council of Nicea in 325 AD. The Council was brought together to try and unify the Church under a single doctrine. Constantine, the Roman Emperor, was concerned with the issues of the Trinity, the deity and humanity of Jesus Christ and believed something needed to be done in terms of clarification. Although many other variations of the Creed were later adopted

  • What Was The Nicene Creed

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    The Nicene Creed has influenced and impacted many people in present day today as well as in history. Humans believe in a type of faith because it allows them to enable their belief stronger to God. Having a relationship with God allows people to carry on with their daily lives with a knowledge that they are safe. This document is accepted in many religions: Catholics, Orthodox and some Protestants. However, The Nicene Creed became the most influential creed of the church because it helped other

  • Argumentative Essay On Religion Vs Religion

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    took place and ultimately caused serious damage to the church. For Example, There should be some sort of equality between the secular and spiritual so that they have equal rights to their needs and no one need is greater than the other. In Nicene Creed they speak about how God and how he is responsible for being the“light of light, very God of God, begotten, not made, being one substance with the father; by whom all things were man (both in heaven and on earth)” (Null). This statement shows us how

  • The Arian Controversy

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    Introduction The Nicene Creed was introduced by the development of The Council of Nicea in 325. Constantine who was the senior emperor, brought together bishops from around the Christian world, to sort out the destabilizing Christological disagreements within his empire. This was the first ‘ecumenical council’. The council agreed on the Nicene Creed which was to eradicate the Arian controversy by affirming that Jesus was homoousios (of one substance or one being), with the Father. The development

  • Personal Narrative: The Last Olympian By Rick Riordan

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    It was a normal spring day for California during the drought, unbearably hot. Although my family was inside Saint Michael’s Church, attending Sunday Mass, we could still feel the heat. I couldn’t even tell if the air conditioner. The church looked beautiful as the sun glowed through the stain glass windows, but it felt like an oven in there. Many women had brought hand fans and were fanning themselves, trying to cool off. It felt even warmer because there were a lot of people attending Mass. My family

  • Assassin's Creed Revelations Essay

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    Assassin’s Creed Revelations was set in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. The game follows the main character, Ezio Auditore, four years after ending the life of Cesare Borgia in Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. This game showed that it was Ezio’s final chapter in the AC series. He discovered at a former Assassin’s fortress in Masyaf was taken over by Templars. There he finds that a previous assassin, Altaïr, had built a library containing the Apple of Eden. The Apple contains an incredible

  • Lutheran Baptism Beliefs

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    The Small Catechism contains basic explanations of the Ten Commandments, Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, baptism, confession, communion, and a list of prayers and table

  • The Sixth Article Of The Thirty-Nine Articles Of Religion

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    Article VIII commends the Nicene, Athanasian and Apostles’ creed to be received and believed as provable by Scripture. Article XXV declares that the Sacraments of Baptism and the Supper of the Lord are ordained by Christ in the Gospel and it recognizes the five lesser Sacraments. Article XX entitled

  • Martin Luther's Contribution To Reformation Essay

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    Martin Luther’s contribution to reformation thought Martin Luther (15th and 16th centuries) was born of a peasant parents, his father being a coal miner. His mother was a godly woman, who insisted that his son receive a good education. Martin Luther was concerned for his salvation, so he abandoned law and entered the Augustinian monastic order. Stages in his spiritual pilgrimage include: • A study of Paul, which led him to reject salvation by works in favor of salvation by grace based on faith

  • The Controversy Between Monism And Dualism

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    and Company, 1900). Referenced page numbers enclosed in parentheses are to Paine’s book. Augustine significantly changed Athanasian Trinitarianism. Athanasius considered homoousios (same substance) synonymous with homoiousian (like substance). Augustine made a great distinction between the two. He also added filioque (from the Son). The addition of filioque to the Nicene Creed radically changed it. “It broke down its monotheism; it reduced generation and sonship to a metaphor; it turned three personal

  • Role Of God In Christianity

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    In 4th century, the Athanasian Creed expressed the doctrine following being part of it: to trinitarian christians (catholic christians, eastern orthodox christians and majority of protestant order), the father (God) is not a separate entity from the Son (Jesus, he being incarnation)

  • Biblical Worldview Essay

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    Introduction Bible is an incredible story and we are part of it because that's what God wants. The Bible has many authors with their different background, but the divine Author is God. From the theological point of view, it is fundamental to understand the articulation and the concept of coherent nature of the Bible. With that in mind, man and man's relationship to God can be figured out, with biblical narrative that will include creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. Only God, after his