history (as) God makes history? from the Old Testament, we know that God sometimes directly makes history: He "blows" bring Nebuchadnezzar and leaves him Court of Israel - certainly not aware of the Nebuchadnezzar. Later Persian King Cyrus freed the Jews - and is even referred to as God's servant. And God made history by becoming involved even "not believing" kings.
God does so through human history and with people. He calls but also people in the succession, through which he then does something. The Bible tells us again and again like this, we need only think of Moses, David, Amos, Jeremiah or Isaiah, Peter or Saul-Paul. And then it's all on, whether we think now on Tertullian and Irenaeus to Augustine or Athanasius, of trip to Martin or Martin Luther, or at Francke Krawielitzki. Many followers of Jesus found in the course of history, and each with different accents, they want to serve God and people.
How people act? God has often "noble" when he some of us want and allows us freedom. In the encounter of Mary with the angel leaves of the young woman apparently the consent: "Behold, I am the Lord's servant." - That reads like a response from the young woman. God involved in its history - it is our responsibility.
This is not always smooth. In the dispute over the Trinity do the Antioch defend intellectual honesty by monotheism, and can therefore only Jesus as the "perfect creature" accept. They are aiming to clean theological clarification. The Alexandrians, however, it is the salvation from death and eternal life, which is more important than theological clarifications. They defend the divinity of Christ because they only have such certainty of life. Both theological schools strive to reach agreement - and there is intense and at times even human misconceptions and denials Auseinanndersetzungen.Durch and slander to get there together at the end. What makes the Trinity as a doctrine of the unity of God is so new among Christians visible unity in doctrine. If God has led his people and the community was zusammenn erneuert.Wo God active? Ultimately remains a mystery. But certainly God has to clean theological clarification interest. We humans need to learn that we perceive the other and "demonize" their (seemingly alien) goals are not the same.
Thus, for often observe the trace of the living God, but also the human track. Someone once said that the church has its origins as above and below lives.
The study can also contact the church history. God makes history, to recognize it remains a mystery, something we can only know by faith.
