Christian Heritage

THE MOSAIC OF CHRISTIAN BELIEF

ROGER E . OLSON Author Roger E . Olson wrote `The Mosaic of Christian Belief ' after completing almost twenty years of teaching theology and doctrines of Christianity in various academic institutions . This book was an attempt on his part to produce an introductory , complete , non technical and non speculative work on Christian beliefs . `The Mosaic of Christian belief is a great example of mediating theology of evangelical Protestant Christianity . It also attempts to unite the Christians under common grounds by teaching the values of unity and truth . The

author is of the opinion that though there is significant amount of the diversity within Christianity , there are some common points , which are shared by all Thus , `The Mosaic of Christian Belief ' wants `to portray Christian belief in all its glorious harmony and rich diversity (Olson 2002 br

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The first and foremost diversity among Christians is regarding the term evangelical . Each group has their own theory like for example to the Europeans evangelical means Protestantism . In England this term is used to refer to the revivalist movements by John and Charles Wesley and in the United States of America evangelicalism is a form of conservative Protestantism . According to Olson

Evangelical comes from a Greek word for the gospel or good news proclaimed by the apostles following Jesus Christ 's death and resurrection .Thus , any church organization or person who proclaims that gospel faithfully is evangelical (Olson 2002

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In the first chapter , Olson tries to come to...