Reflection Paper 1

In the previous week I have learned so many important and useful presentations both in class discussion and on what I have read in the History of Christian Thought, vol.3
I have learned that in the protestant theological heritage God’s talk extends even to the creation. God has revealed himself in salvation history or sacred history. Salvation history begun before the canon was written and even before Eden.
The word protestant came as a result of theological reformers of the 16th century with the influence of Luther and Calvin. I have also learned that the history of theology is divided into three stages namely; Pre-modern, modern and post-modern.
I have also learned in the class that Christ is the ruler, scriptures the rule and creation the realm. Some of the causes causing to the fall of the church were;
1. The medieval synthesis was weakening.
2. Declining power of the hierarchy.
3. Mystism (people did not find a spiritual sustenance in the church.
4. They began to respect the spiritual giants who respected in the society.
5. Nominalism (When we think and reason we do not perceive ultimate reality).
6. Humanism
I have studied the book and discovered that nominalism in the middle ages was a best indication of the process of dissolution through which the medieval synthesis was going. Universals were real; they were there, with givenness even greater than one’s personal existence. Beginning from them the entire universe was a logical hierarchy of which ecclesiastical and civil hierarchies were reflections.