The Church and The Family: An Ethical Task

Horizons ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Farley
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Church

There has been a kind of “turn to the family” on the part of the Christian churches in the past decade, manifesting a concern for what is judged to be the western family in “crisis.” Unfortunately, the voices of religion have had little more effect than the voices of psychology or sociology in either healing or empowering the family, and they have had perhaps less success in interpreting the difficulties which beset the contemporary family as an institution. This failure may represent simply the intractability of the problems which individuals and families face. It may also, however, represent an almost tragic perception on the part of many persons that the Christian tradition regarding family life is today too oppressive to yield a prophetic, a healing or a freeing word.

Materialisation of the Good Life in the New House

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Lan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Western Society ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rural Architecture ◽  
Family House

Abstract Over the past two decades, Chinese rural architecture has experienced dramatic changes through the Building the Chinese Socialist New Village movement. Thousands of new houses, particularly in the model of the New Village, have risen abruptly out of the ground. These Western-style new houses with a garden (huayuan yangfang), which often appear in the media as typical family houses in Western society, largely represent the image of the good life of the state and the peasant in contemporary China. In this article, I focus on how the family house is produced and consumed in Baikou New Village in south China. By presenting the materiality of the dwelling space, this paper probes the intertwined processes of the materialisation of the blueprint of the good life and how the new houses influence family life (especially intergenerational relationships) in post-socialist Baikou New Village.

Reflections on Feminism and Monism in the Kaiserreich, 1900–1913

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Ross Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First World

The League for the Protection of Motherhood (Bund für Mutterschutz und Sexualreform, or BfM) was the largest and most active sex-reform organization in Germany before the First World War. The league was at the center of a broad debate about sexuality, gender roles, the family, and population policy, in which representatives not only of the women's movements but also of the Christian churches, the medical and psychiatric establishments, and the sexology, eugenics, and life-reform (particularly nudist) movements participated. Both this broader debate and the BfM itself have been the subject of intensive study over the past fifteen years. One major interpretive focus of the literature to date has been on the issue of the extent to which the biologistic, social Darwinist, and eugenic ideas prominent in the thinking of many of the leading figures in the BfM were or were not evidence of a turning away from liberal, individualist feminism and toward the political and social Right, or of deeper intellectual affinities between National Socialism and sex reform — a point regarding which there is still considerable disagreement.

Domestic Homicide in early modern England

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

One of the most striking features of recent writing on early modern social history has been the emergence of the family as a subject of central concern. As befits an historical area being subjected to new scrutiny, much of this concern has expressed itself in the form of specialized, and often narrowly-focused articles or essays.1 To these have been added a number of more general works intended to examine the broader developments in and implications of family life in the past.2 Several themes within family history have already received considerable attention: the structure of the family, for example, a topic already rendered familiar by earlier work on historical demography; the concomitant topic of sexual practices and attitudes; and the economic role of the family, especially in its capacity as a unit of production. These are, of course, important matters, and the research carried out on them has revealed much of interest and consequence to the social historian; this should not, however, obscure the existence of a number of other significant dimensions of family life in the past which await thorough investigation.

Modern Pentecostalism as an Urban Phenomenon: The Case of the Family of God Church in Zimbabwe

Exchange ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lovemore Togarasei
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
Family Of God ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe past twenty to thirty years in the history of Zimbabwean Christianity have witnessed the emergence of a new breed of Pentecostalism that tends to attract the middle and upper classes urban residents. This paper presentsfindings from a case study of one such movement, the Family of God church. It describes and analyses the origins, growth and development of this church as an urban modern Pentecostal movement. Thefirst section of the paper discusses the origins and development of the church focusing on the life of the founder. The second section focuses on the teaching and practices of the church. The church's doctrines and practices are here analysed tofind out the extent to which these have been influenced by the socio-political and economic challenges in the urban areas. The paper concludes that the modern Pentecostal movement is meant to address urban needs.

scholarly journals The ecclesial notion of ‘family’ versus authentic families today: Evaluation of the initial findings of the 2014 Synod of Catholic Bishops

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Graham Duncan ◽  
Jakub Urbaniak
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Traditional Institution ◽  
The Family ◽  
Existence And Stability ◽  
The Church

The traditional institution of the family within Roman Catholic Christianity and Christianity in general is in an invidious position in contemporary society, partly because it lacks an agreed definition in a fluid global context. The church is an institution in which families subsist and which both needs and bolsters the family unit for its own existence and stability. However, all major churches seem to be stuck in outdated traditional modes of understanding which are exclusive and cause great distress to many who do not conform to them. The Roman Catholic Church has recently inaugurated a discussion of pastoral challenges currently facing family life. This is an attempt to evaluate critically its initial findings through deconstructing the traditional notion of family on which the Church teaching seems to rely.

scholarly journals Prosperity of the Family - the Future of the World and the Church

Family Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Jindřich Šrajer
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church

From a historical point of view, it can be argued that the cultivated arrangement of the relationship between man and woman, the support of the institution of marriage, and therefore families, have always been one of the important requirements of individual cultures and religions. There is also a close connection between the state of society (and the dominant requirements in it) and the form of personal and family life. In the Western cultural space with the decisive ecclesiastical discourse, the view of marriage and the family was not spared from one-sidedness and problematic practice. The current magisterium of the Catholic Church remains critical of some contemporary trends and phenomena, including the questioning of the very institution of marriage and the family. At the same time, it remains open to new challenges in this field.The article aims to critically reflect on some issues related to the current situation of marriage and the family, especially the individual and social ethical context of married and family life in contemporary Western culture.Using a reflection of the findings of selected authors, especially of sociologists (Lipovetsky, Beck), the article demonstrates the reality of problematic „points“ of the present time (marked by magisterial texts by Pope Francis) and their connection to married and family life. It thus verifies the thesis that the preconditions for marriage and the family are currently weakened in the Western area. This state of affairs include even the institutions that want to invoke the necessary personal and social responses to the problematic situation. Although the study does not capture the full range of issues and problems currently associated with marriage and the family, it does demonstrate that marital and family relationships in contemporary Western culture are conditioned by a number of factors. Those cannot be fully influenced by the individuals directly affected. The study points to the crucial role of politics, including its responsibility and to the exclusive role of the Church. The Church can, in many respects, increase respect for the institutions and bring a concrete help to the people.The result of the study is an emphasis on the fact that, in the current situation, it is not easy for individuals or families to maintain their own integrative values. It is not easy to withstand the pressures from the outside, to not succumb to the vision of success offered by the majority society. It is also problematic that the focus of politics is not predominantly on the family but, above all, on the immediate interests of the individual. Politics is irresponsibly undercutting itself in order to get into favor of individuals.The conclusion of the study confirms the validity of the magisterial belief that the prosperity of the family is crucial for the future of the world and the Church. Marriage and the family are natural communities that correspond to a person‘s anthropological setting. They allow him or her to find his or her own identity. They are a guarantee of the humanization of the person and society, a protection against deformations of the individualistic or collectivist type.

scholarly journals Konseling Pastoral : Analisis Efektifitas Konseling dalam Meningkatkan Pertumbuhan Gereja

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonatan Joe Sumarto
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Counseling Service ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Church

This paper deals with one of the most pressing needs of today that the Church should do. Members of the congregation desperately need counseling services to answer the problems they face in their lives in private. Thus, it is necessary to establish a counseling service within the Church, with the aim of helping, guiding, directing, guiding members out of the problems they face, thereby resulting in a better life cycle.Today many members of the congregation are troubled both in the family, resulting in their family life away from worship, alcoholic beverages and marriage of different religions, to see such things there needs to be counseling services present in the church.

scholarly journals Konseling Pastoral : Analisis Efektifitas Konseling dalam Meningkatkan Pertumbuhan Gereja

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonatan Joe Sumarto
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Counseling Service ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Church

This paper deals with one of the most pressing needs of today that the Church should do. Members of the congregation desperately need counseling services to answer the problems they face in their lives in private. Thus, it is necessary to establish a counseling service within the Church, with the aim of helping, guiding, directing, guiding members out of the problems they face, thereby resulting in a better life cycle.Today many members of the congregation are troubled both in the family, resulting in their family life away from worship, alcoholic beverages and marriage of different religions, to see such things there needs to be counseling services present in the church.

scholarly journals Konseling Pastoral : Analisis Efektifitas Konseling dalam Meningkatkan Pertumbuhan Gereja

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonatan Joe Sumarto
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Counseling Service ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Church

This paper deals with one of the most pressing needs of today that the Church should do. Members of the congregation desperately need counseling services to answer the problems they face in their lives in private. Thus, it is necessary to establish a counseling service within the Church, with the aim of helping, guiding, directing, guiding members out of the problems they face, thereby resulting in a better life cycle.Today many members of the congregation are troubled both in the family, resulting in their family life away from worship, alcoholic beverages and marriage of different religions, to see such things there needs to be counseling services present in the church.

scholarly journals Reimagining the Family of King Charles I in Nineteenth-Century British Painting

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Catriona Murray
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
King Charles I ◽  
Participatory Engagement

Abstract The nineteenth century represents a formative period for the development of historical consciousness in Britain, with texts and, increasingly, images shaping perceptions of the past. This article examines how Stuart history was interpreted and experienced, through a series of historical genre paintings of King Charles I and his family. It explores how Anthony van Dyck's depiction of politicized domesticity in royal portraiture was revised and reworked in these later images. Reimagining Stuart family life, they extended processes of remembering, enlisting audiences in an active, participatory engagement with the past. Probing temporal, visual, and verbal alignments and connections, the article contributes further dimensions to the understanding of historical representation. It argues that these paintings stirred the viewer's intellectual, emotional, and associative responses to encourage a sense of proximity. Establishing an episodic narrative, they initiated processes of recollection and recognition, they reflected sympathetic historiographies, and they encouraged a shared community with their pictorial protagonists. By so doing, nineteenth-century artists diminished historical distance and fashioned a familiarized past.

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