‘He Who Has Eyes Let Him See’: Sartorial Choice and Soteriological Destiny in R. M. Ballantyne’s Jarwin and Cuffy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Church Members ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
Evangelical Protestantism ◽  
Foreign Mission

Abstract Many literary critics have dismissed R. M. Ballantyne’s fictions as artless evangelical propaganda. However, such a blanket denunciation fails to consider both the complexity of Ballantyne’s position in a fractured Scottish church and the ongoing debates among church members and elders about the purpose of and policies regarding foreign mission efforts. Using Jarwin and Cuffy (1878), I argue that Ballantyne’s fiction explores tensions as to the nature of personal salvation, the role of the Scottish church in missionary endeavours, and the necessity of an external presentation of the acceptance of the gospel, essential to much Pacific missionary writing. While Ballantyne is often remembered as having written stories which reinforce the dominant ideals of British colonialism and evangelical Protestantism, we must remember that these ideologies were far from stable concepts.

Co-constituting Fijian identity: the role of constitutions in Fijian national identity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Mudaliar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Island States ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter focuses on the role that constitutions play in national identity, particularly in states that are recently independent and constrained by a colonial legacy. It uses Fiji as a case study, exploring how British colonialism influenced conceptions of Fijian national identity in the constitutional texts of 1970, 1990 and 1997. The chapter explores the indigenous ethno-nationalist ideals that underpinned these constitutions, which led to the privileging of indigenous Fijian identity within the wider national identity. However, in 2013, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama introduced a new constitution which shifted away from previous ethno-nationalist underpinnings towards a more inclusive national identity through the promotion of a civic nationalist agenda. In doing so, Bainimarama’s goal of reducing ethnic conflict has seen a constitutional re-imagining of Fijian identity, which includes the introduction of new national symbols, and a new electoral system, alongside equal citizenry clauses within the Constitution. This study offers a unique insight into power and identity within post-colonial island states.

scholarly journals Die rol van Godskennis in die ontmoetingsgebeure met God in die prediking

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H.J.C. Pieterse
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
Worship Service ◽  
In Christ ◽  
True Knowledge

The role of knowledge of God in the encounter with God in preaching In an era of modernism and postmodernism homiletics is confronted with the problem of reference to God in preaching. According to current epistemologies we cannot have any knowledge of God that can be defended as true knowledge in the forum of academic discourse. In reformed theological theory, according to Calvin, knowledge of God, knowledge of ourselves in the eyes of God, as well as of salvation in Christ is a sine qua non for an encounter with God in preaching in the context of the worship service. This article proceeds from the theological stance that we can find this knowledge only in Scripture through the work of the Spirit. Recent empirical research in Reformed Churches in the Netherlands has shown that church members attend the services expecting to have an encounter with God. The sermon in this expected encounter is still very important for them. A homiletical theory that works with these presuppositions (knowledge of God) has a further problem. There is a growing Biblical illiteracy in Western societies – also in South Africa. As an answer to this problem the author proposes that the teaching sermon along the lines of Calvin’s position on preaching should get more attention in our day.

The Bible and Evangelicalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Stackhouse
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Evangelical Protestantism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Resources

No tradition of Christianity loves and venerates the Bible more than does evangelical Protestantism. The history of this love affair dates back to Evangelicalism’s extended roots in the sixteenth century. In fact, precisely because evangelicals tend to set aside other religious resources such as liturgies, creedal statements, sacramental rituals, and clerical hierarchies in favor of the Bible, the identity, activity, and vitality of evangelicals has depended crucially upon the Bible in their midst. This chapter surveys how the Bible has figured in evangelical life and suggests how the role of the Bible is under stress amid sweeping changes in contemporary evangelicalism’s theology, piety, and mission.

One Nation under God: Making Historical Sense of Evangelical Protestantism in Contemporary American Politics

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON P. NEWMAN
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Evangelical Protestantism ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
American Society

Commentators noted the role of the religious right in the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004. This essay suggests that such assessments are ahistorical and flawed, and illustrates the ways in which evangelical Protestantism has shaped American political life. Examples of the intersection of religion and politics include Jefferson's election in 1800, John Brown's trial and execution, Abraham Lincoln's Civil War leadership and William Jennings Bryan's radical democratic politics. The essay concludes by arguing that if American-studies teaching and research marginalizes religion it fails to comprehend a vital component of American society and culture.

scholarly journals Euodia, Syntyche and the Role of Syzygos: Phil 4:2–3

2018 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-234
Author(s):  
Richard G. Fellows ◽  
Alistair C. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Other ◽  
Church Members ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Church

Abstract In Phil 4:2–3 Paul urges Euodia and Syntyche to unite with each other. He also addresses ‘true yokefellow’, and asks him to assist the two women. This paper disputes the almost universally held assumption that Paul was asking him to mediate a conflict between the two women. Rather, Paul is here calling the church leaders, Euodia and Syntyche, to have the mind of Christ and to foster unity among the Philippian churches, and the other church members to support them. The term ‘true yokefellow’ is a piece of ‘idealized praise’ and is Paul’s way of diplomatically correcting one or more church members.

scholarly journals VISI PROFETIS BAGI KEHIDUPAN SOSIAL UMAT KRISTEN DALAM DEMOKRASI MENURUT JOHN W. DE GRUCHY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aseng Yulias Samongilailai
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Prophetic Vision ◽  
Democratic Life

This article reviews how church members - Christians - should play a role in social life, especially in the context of Indonesia's democratic life. The role of church members is derived from a theoretical study of John W. De Gruchy's thoughts on the prophetic vision which also functions as the basis for this role. The prophetic vision on which the role is based covers the importance of upholding justice, presenting the love of Jesus and the kingdom of God, and of how the Christian community should become an ecclesiā that has a positive, constructive impact on social situations that are experiencing degradation in various lines of life.Artikel ini mengulas tentang bagaimana mestinya warga gereja – umat Kristen – ikut berperan dalam kehidupan sosial khususnya dalam konteks kehidupan demokrasi Indonesia. Peran warga gereja yang diperoleh berasal dari kajian teoritis terhadap pemikiran John W. De Gruchy tentang visi profetis yang sekaligus berfungsi sebagai dasar/landasan dari peran tersebut. Visi profetis yang menjadi landasan peran meliputi tentang pentingnya menegakkan keadilan, menghadirkan kasih Yesus dan kerajaan Allah, dan tentang bagaimana harusnya komunitas Kristen menjadi suatu ecclesiā yang memiliki dampak positif, konstruktif dalam situasi sosial yang sedang mengalami degradasi dalam berbagai lini kehidupan.

scholarly journals The role of the church members and nurses in improving self-awareness to prevent HIV

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (s1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elysabeth Sinulingga ◽  
Agung Waluyo
Keyword(s):  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Church ◽  
Hiv Aids

Background: Karo District is one of the districts in North Sumatera province where from 2016 to 2018 the number of HIV sufferers increased dramatically to 384 people and then it increased to 775 people up to September 2020. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of people with HIV/AIDS and the experiences of the church members regarding people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).Design and Methods: Qualitative research design with descriptive phenomenology approach. Data collection was carried out by interviewing 34 participants in Karo District. The data analysis in this study used the Collaizi technique.Results: Five themes were obtained from the results of the study, namely the responses of the participants diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, health problems faced by PLWHA, stigma and discrimination, the support of family and church members given to PWLHA, and family/church members' expectations toward PLWHA.Conclusions: Based on the findings of the themes, the role of the National AIDS Commission of Moderamen Karo Batak Protestant Church (GBKP) in responding to HIV and AIDS cannot be optimally implemented because of some obstacles namely, localization which is a determinant of the spread of cases, the unavailability of service and ARV in all health centers, lack of sectoral cross-cooperation, very insufficient financial support from the government, the role of nurses played only in the hospitals and the stigmatism to those people with HIV/AIDS due to lack of knowledge of HIV and AIDS.

Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf ◽  
Ken Fones-Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
American South ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Evangelical Protestantism ◽  
Congress Of Industrial Organizations ◽  
Industrial Organizations ◽  
Southern Religion ◽  
Union Activists ◽  
The American South

In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. This book explores the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The book's nuanced look at working-class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly wide evangelical spectrum interpreted their lives through their faith. Factors like conscience, community need, and lived experience led individual preachers to become union activists and mill villagers to defy the foreman and minister alike to listen to organizers. As the book shows, however, all sides enlisted belief in the battle. In the end, the inability of northern organizers to overcome the suspicion with which many evangelicals viewed modernity played a key role in Operation Dixie's failure, with repercussions for labor and liberalism that are still being felt today. Identifying the role of the sacred in the struggle for southern economic justice, and placing class as a central aspect in southern religion, the book provides new understandings of how whites in the region wrestled with the options available to them during a crucial period of change and possibility.

scholarly journals Komodifikasi Agama dalam Holy Land Tour: Sebuah Tinjauan Sosiologi Agama

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Sony Kristiantoro
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
The City

Abstract. For almost three decades, the Holy Land Tour (HLT) has become a prima donna for steady economical status Christians. The pastor becomes a central figure as a person who can be entrusted with the task of promoting, being a spiritual guide, so that he gets convenience and benefits both from the HLT Travel Bureau, and from his church members. This paper aimed to examine the role of church pastors in the city of Salatiga who participated in HLT activities, through interviews toward four pastors from various denominations, and also through data obtained from books or journal articles. The results of this study confirmed that HLT can bring goodness and renewal of faith for participants, but it must still be criticized considering the dangers of consumerism and personal pietism that ignore social piety.Abstrak. Sudah hampir tiga dekade, Holy Land Tour (HLT) menjadi primadona bagi kalangan Kristiani dengan status ekonomi yang mapan. Pendeta menjadi sosok yang cukup sentral sebagai orang yang bisa diserahi tugas mempromosikan, menjadi pembimbing rohani, sehingga mendapat kemudahan dan keuntungan baik dari Biro Travel HLT, maupun dari anggota gerejanya. Tulisan ini hendak meneliti peran pendeta gereja yang ada di kota Salatiga yang pernah mengikuti kegiatan HLT, melalui wawancara yang dilakukan kepada empat orang pendeta yang berasal dari berbagai denominasi, dan juga melalui data yang didapatkan dari buku ataupun artikel jurnal. Hasil penelitian ini menegaskan bahwa HLT bisa membawa kebaikan dan pembaharuan iman bagi peserta, namun tetap harus dikritisi mengingat bahaya konsumerisme dan pietisme (kesalehan) personal yang bisa mengabaikan kesalehan sosial.

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