God's People and the Remnant

1950 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
J. C. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
God's People ◽  
False Prophets ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
Great Survival ◽  
The Church

The conception of the Remnant is a distinctive element in the national consciousness of Israel. It gives expression to the radical faith of that people in their national destiny. From a purely secular point of view it may be regarded as an idea of great survival value, contributing to the spiritual toughness of Israel. Such rationalisations are within limits illuminating and legitimate. When we turn to the particular Biblical witness to the Remnant we find that it divides into two main tendencies. In the optimistic message of the so-called false prophets it was an ingredient in the eschatology of weal which served to soothe the hearts and uplift the hopes of patriotic Israelites. It was a popular belief similar to that faith in the British capacity for muddling through, which at times appears in our own people. On the other hand in the preaching of the canonical prophets the popular conception of the Remnant was subjected to rough and critical treatment and received a fresh content. Our concern is to bring out this new content given to the conception by the Prophets and to determine the meaning and importance of the Remnant for the doctrine of the Church.

The Global Religious Configuration. Realities and Forecasts

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-178
Author(s):  
Gabriel-Viorel Gârdan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Religious Image ◽  
The Church ◽  
Global Population

"Based on recent research, we aim to present the current global religious configu-ration, the religious demographic evolution during the twentieth century, and the main trends for the first half of the twenty-first century. From a methodological point of view, we chose to present only those religions that register a share of 1% of the global population, among which we paid increased attention only to Christiani-ty and Islam. The only exception to this rule is Judaism, the reason for advancing this exception being the desire to compare the evolution of the three religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a more nuanced picture of the geographical distribution of each religion and, on the other hand, to illustrate the global religious diversity. From a chronological point of view, the landmarks are the years 1910, 1970, 2000, 2010, 2014, 2030, and 2050. The data collected for the years 1910–2014 is the basis of the forecasts for the years 2030 and 2050. The former ones describe the religious realities, while the latter two open up perspectives on the trends in religious demography. We would like to draw attention to the potential of religious demography in deciphering the religious image of the world in which we live. On the other hand, we consider that exploring the global religious profile and the way it evolves, as well as the factors that bring forth change, is not only an opportunity generated by the organic development of religious demography research but also a necessity for rethinking the pastoral and missionary strategies of the church. Religious demographics provide valuable data about the past together with nuanced knowledge of the present, helping us anticipate and even influence the future. The church, at any time, assumes the past, manages the present, and prepares the future. From this perspective, we believe that a strategic pastoral thinking, regardless of religion or denomination, can be organically outlined, starting from the data provided through the means available to religious demography. While religious demography provides specific data, it does not explain the phenomena behind this data; it notes and invites questions, debates, and explanations about religious affiliation, religiosity, and religious behaviour. Keywords: religious, demography, agnostics, atheists, Christians, Muslims."

The so-called ‘Bellarmine’ Mask on Imported Rhenish Stoneware

1951 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 173-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
North Germany ◽  
The Church

Just over a century ago Mr. William Chaffers read to the British Archaeological Association a paper in which he gave the name of Bellarmines to those mottled stoneware vessels, with bearded masks as their principal decoration, which were imported in large quantities from the Rhineland to be the regular tavern-crockery of Tudor and Stuart London. This paper, published by the Association in volume v of its Journal, appears to be the source of the popular belief, which almost everybody quotes and nobody checks, that the mask and jug were intended to satirize the features and rotundity of Cardinal Bellarmine, perhaps the greatest theologian of his time and certainly, to the hard-drinking Protestants of England, north Germany, and the Low Countries, the most redoubtable champion of the Church of Rome. Chaffers himself does not go so far as to claim detailed resemblance of face and figure, but says ‘if we can in any way rely upon the portraits of him thus handed down to posterity, he must indeed have been exceedingly hard featured’. On the other hand, he does specifically claim to be justified in ‘christening anew’ this type of vessel with the cardinal's name, and popular acceptance has done the rest.

scholarly journals As tentações de Jesus em tempos de neoliberalismo e pós-modernidade

2002 ◽  
Vol 62 (246) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
José Otacílio Leite
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Present Universe ◽  
The Church

O artigo parte das tentações de Jesus, segundo os relatos dos sinóticos, seguindo a ordem de Lucas, para abordar as tentações do homem contemporâneo. O encontro das duas naturezas, em Jesus, e sua fidelidade ao Pai, traçam um roteiro de liberdade libertadora para todas as criaturas humanas. A vida e o próprio ser do Filho de Deus é uma chave de leitura antropológica, iluminada pela fé, capaz de conectar o ser humano com o seu criador. Por outro lado, no conteúdo específico de cada uma das três grandes tentações situadas na historicidade de Jesus, há uma grande ligação com as propostas-mestras de realização do ser humano oferecidas pelos ideais de individualismo e consumismo, hoje reinantes. Estas propostas estão atreladas aos projetos do neoliberalismo e da pós-modernidade. São tentáculos que desafiam a fidelidade do cristão, da Igreja, porque escravizam, corroendo pessoas, sociedade e instituições, afastando-as do projeto amoroso do Pai. Ao resgatar o tema das tentações – e do pecado – a partir dos evangelhos, temos um caminho atraente às novas gerações para refletir e avaliar os valores propugnados no universo atual, bem como a própria sociedade como um todo.Abstract: The article takes off from the temptations of Jesus, according to the synoptical reports, following the order of Lucas, to approach the temptations of contemporary man. The meeting of two natures, in Jesus, and his faithfulness to the Father, trace a root of liberating liberty for all human beings. The life and the being itself of the Son of God is an anthropological key of reading, illuminated by faith, capable of connecting the human being with the Creator. On the other hand, in the specific contents of each of the three great temptations situated in the historicity of Jesus, there is a great connection with the master proposals of realization of the human being offered by the ideals of individualism and consumerism, those which reign today. These proposals are linked to projects of neoliberalism and to the post modernity. They are tentacles which defy the fidelity of the Christian, of the Church, because they enslave, corroding peoples, society and institutions, distancing them from the Father’s loving project. In salvaging the theme of temptations – and of sin – from the point of view of the Gospels, we have a path which is an attractive path to the new generations for reflecting and evaluating the values enhanced in the present universe, as well as society, itself, as a whole.

XV The Procureur du Roi v. Pierre Maugier and the Procureurs of the University of Paris and the Earl of Salisbury

1982 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 192-200
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

This suit was concerned with two issues, the patronage of the church of Boisney, and the claim of a member of the University of Paris to exemption from pleading in a case elsewhere than at the Châtelet in Paris. The suit had already been heard by the ‘prévôt’ of Paris who had ruled it should be heard before his court. In the present suit, an appeal from that decision, the ‘procureur du roi’ claimed that cases involving the king should be heard and decided in the localities, in this case, more specifically, in Rouen. The University, on the other hand, insisted that its members should not be disturbed in their studies by the necessity to plead outside Paris, arguing that the king's rights would in no way be threatened by having the suit heard in the capital. To this point of view the answer of the ‘procureur du roi’ was that in a case of patronage such as this, claims should be pursued by the patron (in this instance, the earl of Salisbury) and not by the University seeking to defend the rights of the person presented to the cure.

scholarly journals Genesis of Russian religious philosophy of the Slavophiles A. S. Khomyakov and I. V. Kireevsky

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-414
Author(s):  
Vitaly Yu. Shcherbakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
World Views ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Philosophical Movement ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
The Church

The article is devoted to the philosophical, religious and world views of A. S. Khomyakov and I. V. Kireevsky. Based on the analysis of the authors’ creative and epistolary heritage, the authors show the ambiguity of their judgment from the point of view of Orthodox theology. The hermeneutic method allowed the author to analyze the primary sources of A. S. Khomyakov and I. V. Kireevsky, their contemporaries and followers from the point of view of Orthodox theology to determine the degree of their compliance with Orthodox doctrine. The purpose of the work is to compare the creative heritage of the founders of the religious and philosophical movement of the Slavophiles A. S. Khomyakov and I. V. Kireevsky. This is a new look at the formation of the religious and philosophical worldviews of A. S. Khomyakov and I. V. Kireevsky. The strongest sides of A. S. Khomyakov are the following: he presents the Church as a single moral union of those who preach the teachings of Christ, based on love for their neighbor. Rationalism is not conducive to the establishment of faith, and everyone who is separated from the Church does not have love. I. V. Kireevsky, on the other hand, followed the path of knowledge of Roman philosophy and its influence on the formation of Western theology; analysis and conclusions in assessing the development of theology in Russia and Europe; negative effect of ritualism on the worldview of true Orthodoxy in Russia.

scholarly journals A Eclesiologia do Código de Direito Canônico

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (265) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Geraldo Luiz Borges Hackmann
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
God's People ◽  
Institutional Aspect ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

O artigo reflete sobre a relação entre o Código de Direito Canônico e a Eclesiologia, mostrando que o ordenamento jurídico da Igreja é uma dimensão necessária da natureza e da missão da Igreja. Dois aspectos mostram essa relação: o mistério da Igreja e a imagem bíblica de Povo de Deus. Mas é preciso, ainda, aludir às categorias de sacramentalidade e de comunhão, além da dimensão institucional, para estabelecer mais profundamente a natureza e a missão específicas do Direito na Igreja.Abstract: This paper deals with the relation between the Code of Canonical Right and the Ecclesiology, showing that the Church’s juridical order is a necessary dimension belonging to the Church’s nature and dimension. By two aspects is shown this relation, namely the mystery and the biblical image of God’s people. But is also necessary, on the one hand, to allude to the categories of sacramentality and communion, and on the other hand to the institutional aspect, in order to establish more profundly the specific nature and mission of the Right of the Church.

Can the Academic Self-Concept be Positive and Realistic?

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reimer Kornmann
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Other Hand

Summary: My comment is basically restricted to the situation in which less-able students find themselves and refers only to literature in German. From this point of view I am basically able to confirm Marsh's results. It must, however, be said that with less-able pupils the opposite effect can be found: Levels of self-esteem in these pupils are raised, at least temporarily, by separate instruction, academic performance however drops; combined instruction, on the other hand, leads to improved academic performance, while levels of self-esteem drop. Apparently, the positive self-image of less-able pupils who receive separate instruction does not bring about the potential enhancement of academic performance one might expect from high-ability pupils receiving separate instruction. To resolve the dilemma, it is proposed that individual progress in learning be accentuated, and that comparisons with others be dispensed with. This fosters a self-image that can in equal measure be realistic and optimistic.

A Nabatean port on the Red Sea: note on the pottery finds from al-Qusayr (al-Wajh, Saudi Arabia)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Durand
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
Pottery Sherds ◽  
First Time

Al-Qusayr is located 40 km south of modern al-Wajh, roughly 7 km from the eastern Red Sea shore. This site is known since the mid-19th century, when the explorer R. Burton described it for the first time, in particular the remains of a monumental building so-called al-Qasr. In March 2016, a new survey of the site was undertaken by the al-‘Ula–al-Wajh Survey Project. This survey focused not only on al-Qasr but also on the surrounding site corresponding to the ancient settlement. A surface collection of pottery sherds revealed a striking combination of Mediterranean and Egyptian imports on one hand, and of Nabataean productions on the other hand. This material is particularly homogeneous on the chronological point of view, suggesting a rather limited occupation period for the site. Attesting contacts between Mediterranean merchants, Roman Egypt and the Nabataean kingdom, these new data allow a complete reassessment of the importance of this locality in the Red Sea trade routes during antiquity.

scholarly journals The Difficult alliance. Military cooperation between the ruthenian king Daniel and the Piasts of Mazovia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-112
Author(s):  
Michał Skoczyński
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Military Cooperation ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Methodology ◽  
The Military

Abstract The article presents the military cooperation between the King of Galician-Volhynian Ruthenia, Daniel Romanowicz, and the Dukes of Mazovia, Konrad and his son Siemowit. The alliance, based as a counterweight for the cooperation between the King of Hungary and the Piast princes of Lesser Poland, who were trying to conquer Ruthenia and dominate all Piast principalities in then fragmented Poland. It lasted for several decades from the 1220’s to the 1260’s and was primarly aimed at mutual protection against the invasions of the pagan Yotvingians and supporting each other in armed conflicts. The text contains an analysis of war expeditions, tactics and ways of support that were given by both sides of the allianace. It is a new point of view on this aspect of political strategy of both sides that in some ways defined the regional situation. Ruthenians granted masovian Piasts some mobile and political uncommited support in fight with their relatives in Poland, and also secured their border with the Yotvingians. On the other hand, masovian knights were an additional strike force in ruthenian plundering expeditions to Yotvingia. The research was based on the analysis of preserved historical sources and scientific literature using historical methodology.

scholarly journals Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena

Topoi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Svenaeus
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Chronic Anxiety ◽  
Phenomenological View ◽  
Life Projects

AbstractIn this paper I explore health and illness through the lens of enactivism, which is understood and developed as a bodily-based worldly-engaged phenomenology. Various health theories – biomedical, ability-based, biopsychosocial – are introduced and scrutinized from the point of view of enactivism and phenomenology. Health is ultimately argued to consist in a central world-disclosing aspect of what is called existential feelings, experienced by way of transparency and ease in carrying out important life projects. Health, in such a phenomenologically enacted understanding, is an important and in many cases necessary part of leading a good life. Illness, on the other hand, by such a phenomenological view, consist in finding oneself at mercy of unhomelike existential feelings, such as bodily pains, nausea, extreme unmotivated tiredness, depression, chronic anxiety and delusion, which make it harder and, in some cases, impossible to flourish. In illness suffering the lived body hurts, resists, or, in other ways, alienates the activities of the ill person.

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