Essays on Theology

The thoughts and beliefs related to human sexuality and healthy sexuality are significantly different when comparing the views of man (secular) against those presented in the biblical concepts. As time continues to pass these two mindsets become increasingly further apart. One school of thought teaches...

The theological virtue of hope which is a supernatural gift bestowed by God through which one trusts God will grant eternal life and the means of obtaining it providing one cooperates. Hope is composed of desire and expectation together with a recognition of the difficulty...

In the book of Job, God portrays the Christian sufferers and how he interprets agony from his perspective. Job makes distinctions for us regarding suffering and God also makes promises to his people after the end of their torture. Job questions God on how he...

When it comes to eschatology, or the study of the End Times, we often study it by reciting the signs: the verses and hadiths that inform us of what will happen towards the end. However, what we should really contemplate is the *function* of eschatology...

Summa Theologica was the best known work created by St. Thomas Aquinas. It was never completed, and yet is considered a classic of the history of philosophy. He presents reasoning of Christian Theology in the West and Theological Teachings of the Catholic Church. Which was...

The Three Hierarchs are The Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus and last John Chrysostom. The Basil of Caesarea is also known as Saint Basil. He was born on, A.D. 329 and died January 1st 379, this means he lived for 50 years. This was...

Thomas Aquinas, one of the most influential theologians of his time, deals with many hotly contested topics regarding the nature of God and God’s dealings with mankind in Summa Theologica. In the fifth question of Part IIIa, Aquinas discusses Christ’s assumption of a human nature....

Though written primarily for a young audience, C.S. Lewis’s fiction overflows with Biblical allusion and religious imagery. A Lewis narrative, indeed, becomes a vessel through which he is able to infuse his writing with his own complex theological ideology. This is evident in the events...

The theological virtue of hope which is a godly gift bestowed by God through which one trusts God will grant eternal life and the means of obtaining it providing one cooperates. Hope is composed of desire and expectation together with a recognition of the difficulty...

In Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, he defines man to be made in the image of God, man’s end to be perfect happiness, which may only be attained by seeing God, and asserts the Divine law’s role in the attainment of perfect happiness. Much like Aristotle, Aquinas...

Agustin’s political and social opinions flow directly from his theology. The historical context is essential to understand its objectives. Augustine, more than any other figure of Late Antiquity, is at the intellectual intersection of Christianity, philosophy and politics. As a Christian priest, he proposes the...

No version of the “design argument” for God’s existence is more famous than a passage from the Rev. William Paley’s 1802 book “Natural Theology”: “In crossing a heath suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone comes to be...

During his life, C.S. Lewis writes a collection of seven novels that he publishes into his well-known Chronicles of Narnia series, which sheds light on Narnia’s history. These novels introduce similar themes with the first book in the series named, The Magician’s Nephew. Most importantly,...

Filippo Bruno was born in Nola, a small town in Italy located north-east of Naples. At the time of his birth, religion and philosophy were deep rooting subject matters spreading throughout all of Europe. With the growing power of the Catholic church and the ability...

The Cosmological argument is ‘a posteriori’ – it is reliant upon and fits with our experience of the world around us, with our own experience of causal chains provoking questions over how we, and the universe as a whole, came to be. The aim of...

The Rule of St. Benedict, written around 540, not only remains a directory for many people today but also is a key work in the history of Christian monasticism. St. Benedict, born about 480 in modern-day Norcia, was sent to Rome for schooling. Eventually becoming...

The debate over whether or not God is existent is one that has lasted thousands of years. Philosophers on either side of the debate have been bringing up arguments for or against it for quite a while yet neither side has come to a conclusion....

The influence of Greek philosophy on the theologies of the traditional monotheisms was immense, shaping each theology’s conception of God according to the doctrines of such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno. The interaction between religious and pagan philosophies was not always welcomed, however; nor...