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Critical evaluation and role of the television in Christian families

  Introduction Television is the source of information or communication, and media play a significant role in everyone's life. TV is one of the mass mediums. TV has become a very big part of our lives today. Basically, its duty is to inform, educate, and entertain. In this paper, I am going to write about critical evaluation and the role of television in Christian families. Television The word television is derived from the Latin word "tele," which means far and distance, and the Latin word vision," which means sight. Therefore, the television is a widely used telecommunications system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. John Logie Baird invented the television. His first TV set was made of scissors, an old tea chest, and some sealing wax. Christian families. The Christian family is the one that lines up with biblical principles and in which each member of the family understands and fulfills their God-given role. The f...

Key themes of the Old Testament: A Survey of Major Theological Themes by David E. Graves

  Introduction A survey of the Bible through the use of themes is helpful to acquire an overview of the purpose and development of the Old Testament. It soon becomes apparent that even though the Bible was written over a period of ca. 3000 years by many diverse authors, it is a coherent message about the condition of humanity and the need for a divine redeemer. We began with four chapters dealing with the Bible itself because what we know about God is revealed through the Bible. Summary Chapter One provided an overview of the history of the English Bible. It addressed the questions of how we got the Bible, what languages are used in the Bible, and the need for translating the Bible into the language of the people. Chapter Two laid out the need for God to reveal himself to us if we are ever going to know anything about him, and we saw the importance of God revealing himself understandably to man in the Bible. We are not left groping in the dark, hopelessly trying to discover God....

Book review on a theology of liberation

  Gutierrez, Gustavo. A theology of liberation: history politics and salvation , New York: Orbis books, 1988. The purpose of this book is to express the meaning and the nature of the theology liberation and to describe the reason which gave the birth of new era in Latin America. It expresses the new challenges to injustice and dependence. According to the writer the term liberation theology is the critical reflection on the Christian praxis in the light of the word of God. The writer uses the term liberation as better the explanation of the term development. In new sense the liberation can be understood as single process of salvation.   The author starts his book with an explanation of some different ways of doing theology. According to the classical point of view, the theology can be understood as wisdom and as rational knowledge. The theology as wisdom is about the meditation on the Bible and spiritual life.   The theology as rational knowledge was established as scie...