thought “i am too smart to ever be a drug addict” and shrugged it off. Now, at the age of 29, I am proud to say that I have overcome addiction, something that I have struggled with for more than ten years of my life. I am applying at Colorado Christian University with the hopes of achieving an associates degree in Psychology so that I can become an addiction counselor. I believe that my experience
Short History of Humanity by David Christian David Christian, author of This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, was born on June 30, 1946 in Brooklyn, NY. Christian’s earlier interests and his first books were about the study of the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, more specifically, the peasants of Russia and their diet. One of these book was called Bread and Salt which he co-wrote with REF Smith. From 1975 to 2000, he taught at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. In the 1980’s
Christian College Thought Paper Wendy Guindi Azusa Pacific University Christian College As a person who is approaching college quickly, I thought this book The Idea of a Christian College by Arthur F. Holmes was interesting and helpful. I have read several themes about living for God and preparing for college. Such as why a Christian college, Integrating Faith and Learning, College as Community, and Experience is not enough. He spoke about different debates that helped me realize how
for the Christian faith. Shaped through his occupations as a professor at both Cambridge University and an associate at Oxford University, C.S Lewis wrote a vast collection of books, including the children series The Chronicles of Narnia. Due to its ______ and unthreatening approach, the Chronicles of Narnia provide the reader with a different framing of Biblical text. These books also allow individuals who have not read the bible to biblical themes without being in your face.
Preface Rowan Williams, The Wounded Knowledge: Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St. John of the Cross Probably, Augustine’s Confessions is a single text that most resonate with Rowan William’s imaginative life. It is a work that uniquely fuses spirituality with theology. Augustine articulates truth about God by talking to God: the reader is eavesdropping on his theology. The modern distinction between theology and spirituality is rendered meaningless in Augustin’s language of
An experience that has taken place in my life that would greatly influence my academic work and goals at Colorado Christian University is when I started coaching third and fourth grade football in 2011. My life has been an exhilarating journey up until I dedicated my life to Jesus. While attending high school from 2006 to 2010, I was far from God in my character, my lifestyle, and my overall attitude toward life. I was a troubled teen who, following the death of a close friend, abused drugs and alcohol
education a priority in our life. Being born in Iran and moving to the United States of America at the age of 26, my goal always has been and will always be to educate myself and create a better world for me and my community. I was born in an Armenian-Christian family in Iran. Throughout much of my early teen years, I did not understand my family's situation in Iran. As a Christian family, we had faced constant discrimination. At some point of my life, I saw my father so disappointed with our situation
Anne M. Clifford, an accredited theologian and associate professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, is the author of the novel Introducing Feminist Theology. Clifford’s book preforms as an ideal textbook for an introductory course on Feminist Theologies. Introducing Feminist Theology includes six chapters that address such topics as, the origins of Christian feminist theology, biblical perspectives, ecclesiology, feminist spirituality, and ecology. In this novel, Clifford aims
The Gilded Age was a time of change, and hardly anything was changed more than America’s social landscape. With the shifting from a largely rural population to an urban one, it was only fit that American social life change with it. Thanks to the practically forced cultural mixing due to the huge amounts of immigrants arriving in the states, cultural variety flourished during this time. With this intense cultural development underway, it is only natural that most of American life changed. Specifically
At the Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Tubingen, Bonhoeffer completed his Staatsexamen, which is the equivalent to both a master’s degree, and a bachelor degree. From Berlin University, Bonhoeffer went on to receive his Doctor of Theology Degree. He graduated summa cum laude, which are Latin honors, in 1927. Then he went on to complete his second doctorate known as Habilitation. He was then made a Privatdozent of Berlin University in 1929. He completed all of this before the age