Authority and Essence

Agents of God ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Guhin
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Evangelical Protestant

The first chapter outlines the book’s central theoretical questions and contributions, emphasizing the importance of boundaries and authorities. These boundaries—politics, gender, sex, and the Internet—help to establish the distinctions from the outside world that ground each school’s identity. That identity is then experienced as real through certain practices, and those practices are maintained via certain “external authorities,” especially scripture, prayer, and science. These external authorities are at once practices themselves and the institutionalization (what some might call reification) of these practices, things that people do (read the Bible, pray, invoke science) but at the same time, things that seem to exist above and beyond any individual person, and seemingly with the ability to act on people themselves. The chapter ends by describing the four high schools—two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Protestant—where the author conducted fieldwork.

scholarly journals Discipleship in Oriental Orthodox and Evangelical Communities

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Ralph Lee
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spiritual Disciplines ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Evangelical Protestant

In many countries with a strong Orthodox Christian presence there are tensions between Evangelicals and Orthodox Christians. These tensions are rooted in many theological, ecclesiological, and epistemological differences. In practice, one of the crucial causes of tension comes down to different practical understandings of what a Christian disciple looks like. This paper examines key aspects of discipleship as expressed in revival movements in Orthodox Churches Egypt, India and Ethiopia which are connected to the challenges presented by the huge expansion of Evangelical Protestant mission from the nineteenth century. Key aspects will be evaluated in comparison with aspects that are understood to characterize disciples in Evangelical expressions, including: differing understandings of the sacraments and their place in the life of a disciple; ways in which different traditions engage with the Bible and related literary works; contrasting outlooks on discipleship as an individual and a community way of life; and differing understanding of spiritual disciplines.

Personal Bible Reading and the Faith Formation of Teenagers in a Digital Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Judith Hildebrandt ◽  
Jack Barentsen ◽  
Jos de Kock
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Faith Formation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Back Seat ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Bible Reading ◽  
People Today

Abstract History shows that the use of the Bible by Christians has changed over the centuries. With the digitization and the ubiquitous accessibility of the Internet, the handling of texts and reading itself has changed. Research has also shown that young people’s faith adapts to the characteristics of the ‘age of authenticity’, which changes the role of normative institutions and texts in general. With regard to these developments this article deals with the question: How relevant is personal Bible reading for the faith formation of highly religious Protestant German teenagers? Answers to this question are provided from previous empirical surveys and from two qualitative studies among highly religious teenagers in Germany. The findings indicate, that other spiritual practices for young people today are more important as a source of faith than reading the Bible. The teenagers interviewed tend to seek an individual affective experience when reading the Bible, so that the importance of cognitive grasp of the content takes a back seat to personal experience.

scholarly journals Kajian Praktis Tentang Pola Asuh Orang Tua dalam Meningkatkan Minat Belajar Alkitab Anak Berdasarkan Amsal 22:6

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Dadan Wahyu ◽  
Rudolf Sagala ◽  
Stimson Hutagalung ◽  
Rolyana Fernia
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
The Church

The objectives of this study are, first, to provide an explanation of the importance of parenting. Second, Provide guidance to parents in building spiritual children based on the book of Proverbs 22:6. The method that the researcher uses is a qualitative method with a grounded theory approach. Data collection techniques used: the Bible, books, official sources from the internet, and other articles related to the writing of this scientific article. The results of this study are, first, good parenting will encourage children to have an interest in reading the Bible regularly until their old age. Second, so that parents can understand properly and correctly the meaning of the advice written in the book of Proverbs 22:6 in raising their children. That is why parents and the Church from the beginning have played a role in the protection and maintenance of their lives, so that they know the way of truth through God's word every day, so that they become strong individuals in the future, strong in their faith, and fearing God to make life a blessing or meaning to others.

Educational activities of the Road Transport Inspection

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (39) ◽  
pp. 44-64
Author(s):  
Bartosz Raźny ◽  
Kamil Domagała
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
The Road ◽  
Dynamic Development ◽  
Transportation Logistics

The aim of this article is to describe educational activities concerning improvement of road safety taken by the [Polish] Road Transport Inspection. In order to build awareness of our society some actions should be taken at the earliest age and involve many different institutions, not only schools. The authors show how the Road Transport Inspection fulfils this assumption by creating “Bezpieczna Szkoła Krokodylka Tirka” (‘Crocodile Tirek's School of Safety’), organising lessons about road safety in hospitals, high schools or lectures on conferences, fairs and other events concerning transportation, logistics and shipping. The Engagement of the Road Transport Inspection in education and media campaigns involving road safety has been discussed in the range of years 2018-2020 and it shows the dynamic development of the unit on this field. Our analysis indicates that the most effective in education is combination of both theory and practise or sharing by officers, their knowledge and work experience with the audience. The biggest challenge, on the contrary, is to bring all this activities to the Internet, which is necessary especially because of coronavirus pandemic.

The Use of Online Pornography as Compensation for Loneliness and Lack of Social Ties Among Israeli Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 1865-1882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaniv Efrati ◽  
Yair Amichai-Hamburger
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sexual Activities ◽  
Attachment Orientations ◽  
Online Pornography ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
The Impact

The Internet provides people with the ability to act anonymously, which may lead them to feel secure and to release them from many of their inhibitions. In many cases, this leads them to participate in cybersex activities and online pornography. This study examined the psychological factors behind young people’s sexual behavior online. Participants comprised 713 Israeli adolescents (383 boys and 330 girls) aged 14 to 18 years. Our results indicated that the impact of loneliness on online sexual activity and frequency of pornography use was dependent on participants’ attachment orientations. Engagement in online sexual activities and use of pornography were high among anxiously attached individuals regardless of the extent of their loneliness. Loneliness was found to increase the use of online sexual activities and pornography, only among secure and anxiously avoidant individuals. Online sexual activity and pornography were also found to be related to offline sexual activity. The results are described and discussed.

scholarly journals Debata: Po co nam prawa człowieka?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-120
Author(s):  
Piotr W. Juchacz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Philosophy ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Journal ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

The debate Why do we need human rights? took place on April 10th, 2013 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. It was a part of the conference Philosophy is changing the world! organized under the auspices of Public Philosophy & Democratic Education journal. The participants of the debate were the youth from middle and high schools in Poznań and Greater Poland and invited experts from the Institute of Philosophy, AMU: Dr. Karolina M. Cern, Dr. Andrzej W. Nowak, Dr. Krzysztof Przybyszewski. Discussion was moderated by Dr. Piotr W. Juchacz. Youth was asking, inter alia, about what human rights are and how freedom is understood within human rights; whether human rights are associated with the European culture or have universal character; whether international documents relating to human rights are fully respected in Poland; and whether attempts at restricting the access to certain content on the Internet is a violation of human rights.

scholarly journals Re-Imagining Digital Copyright Through the Power of Imitation: Lessons from Confucius and Plato

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Frosio
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Copyright ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Hindu Kush ◽  
Creative Experience

For millennia, Western and Eastern culture shared a common creative paradigm. From Confucian China, across the Hindu Kush with the Indian Mahābhārata, the Bible, the Koran and the Homeric epics, to Platonic mimēsis and Shakespeare’s “borrowed feathers,” our culture was created under a fully open regime of access to pre-existing expressions and re-use. Creativity used to be propelled by the power of imitation. However, modern policies have largely forgotten the cumulative and collaborative nature of creativity. Actually, the last three decades have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of intellectual property rights in sharp contrast with the open and participatory social norms governing creativity in the networked environment. Against this background, this paper discusses the reaction to traditional copyright policy and the emergence of a social movement re-imagining copyright according to a common tradition focusing on re-use, collaboration, access and cumulative creativity. This reaction builds upon copyright’s growing irrelevance in the public mind, especially among younger generations in the digital environment, because of the emergence of new economics of digital content distribution in the Internet. Along the way, the rise of the users, and the demise of traditional gatekeepers, forced a process of reconsideration of copyright’s rationale and welfare incentives. Scholarly and market alternatives to traditional copyright have been plenty, attempting to reconcile pre-modern, modern and post-modern creative paradigms. Building upon this body of research, proposals and practice, this Article will finally try to chart a roadmap for reform that reconnects Eastern and Western creative experience in light of a common past, looking for a shared future.

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