The Goodness of Home

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Human Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Relational Space

Bringing together the strands of the book’s argument, the chapter proposes that a relational home is both anthropological and pneumatological, enabling human freedom. Kierkegaard’s divine middle term understood here as the Holy Spirit, who inhabits the attachment space between human beings, holds the relational space in place, preventing its implosion or dissolution and making it a space of belonging, which befits the concept of home. It is suggested that Jesus’s embodied life provides the pattern for meeting human need and desire, as Jesus is both needful of and a generous giver of human love while simultaneously the most perfect union of human and divine loves working in tandem. The chapter proposes that the self is cocreated and sustained by relational homes that mediate and participate in the streams of divine love that originate in God, reach human lives, and empower human beings to become channels of such love toward other people.

The Goodness of Home

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Human Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Theological Argument

The question of what home means and how it relates to subjectivity has fresh urgency in light of pervasive contemporary migration, which ruptures the human self, and painful relational poverty, which characterizes much of modern life. Yet the Augustinian heritage that situates true home and right attachment outside this world has clouded theological conceptualizations of earthly belonging. This book engages this neglected topic and argues for the goodness of home, which it construes relationally rather than spatially. In dialogue with research in the neuroscience of attachment theory and contemporary constructions of the self, the book advances a theological argument for the function of love attachments as sources of subjectivity and enablers of human freedom. The book shows that paradoxically the depth of human belonging—thus, dependence—is directly proportional to the strength of human agency—hence, independence. Building on Søren Kierkegaard’s imagery alongside other sources, the book depicts human love as interwoven with the infinite streams of divine love, forming a sacramental site for God’s presence, and playing a constitutive role in the making of the self. The book portrays the self both as gifted from God in inchoate form and as engaged in continuous, albeit nonlinear becoming via experiences of human love. The Holy Spirit indwells the attachment space between human beings as a middle term preventing its implosion or dissolution and conferring a stability that befits the concept of home. The interstitial space between loving human persons subsists both anthropologically and pneumatologically and generates the self’s home.

Trust and Aspiration

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
Hillary Kaell
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Christian Organizations ◽  
Audit Culture ◽  
Participatory Techniques ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Successful Outcomes ◽  
Short Section

This chapter traces how Christian sponsorship organizations adapt secular audit culture. It begins by exploring how sponsors frame aspirations for foreign children's futures. The chapter then turns to modes of verification. Since sponsors cannot personally verify the results of their giving, they expect detailed facsimiles in the form of audits, graphs, and Better Business Bureau or Charity Navigator reports. Yet very few sponsors actually consult these documents. Instead, they and the organizations they support cultivate multifaceted modes of trust-creation using measures of success that might at first seem divergent, such as financial audits, answered prayers, and children's smiles. Sponsors also rely on aspirational talk and on affective participatory techniques. The chapter concludes with a short section about sponsors' hopes and fears for the world as a whole. Throughout, it underlines God's bridging power: U.S. Christians view the (Holy) Spirit and (divine) Love as the forces that keep Christian organizations honest, animate sponsor–child relationships, and move human beings toward successful outcomes.

The Christian Conception of Love

1959 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-242
Author(s):  
William Lillie
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Human Love ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
Concrete Action ◽  
Love Of God

All Christian love has its source and exemplar in the love of God. ‘Beloved,’ wrote St. John, ‘if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another’, or again, ‘God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.’ St. Paul was equally clear; it is God's love which ‘has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us’, and it is the love of Christ (which is, of course, the love of God revealed in Christ) that constrains us to live no longer for ourselves—the usual way in which our human love is evidenced. Dietrich Bonhoeffer echoed this from his German prison, ‘No one knows what love is except in the self-revelation of God… It is only the concrete action and suffering of Jesus Christ which will make it possible to understand what love is.’ So we must begin with the love of God; and yet our understanding of God's love comes to us through the experience of human love. It was with a picture of an earthly father, surrounded by the human things of home and field, calves and kids, robes and rings, sons and servants, that Jesus made His most vivid portrait of the love of God; and it was not only in dying on Calvary, but also in living in human fellowship with Peter and John, Martha and Mary that Jesus Himself exhibited the Father's love to men.

scholarly journals La necesidad de apoyo y la relación paterno- filial

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Rafael Hurtado ◽  
Mikel Gotzón Santamaría
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Human Love ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The Relationship

En el presente artículo se explorará la necesidad imperante de todo ser humano por experimentar el amor de Dios a través del amor de su origen físico y espiritual, a saber, sus propios padres de familia. En la primera parte del análisis se desarrolla un breve marco teórico, partiendo de la experiencia de ser persona, que explica la relación entre la noción de amor y felicidad humanos. Posteriormente se establece la conexión indeleble entre la necesidad de experimentar el amor de Dios y corresponderlo, pasando por el reconocimiento excelso de la libertad. Amar y ser amado en la tierra, en ese sentido, pasa por el acto libre humano de aceptar la posibilidad de ser copartícipes de la procreación y educación de los hijos de Dios. Finalmente, se exalta el compromiso de toda sociedad por revalorar la función que ejercen los padres de familia en la construcción del “hogar global” de los seres humanos. Abstract: The following article will explore the human need to experience the love of God, through the love of those who are our physical and spiritual origin, that is, our parents. The first part of the analysis will stablish a theoretical framework, drawn from our human experience, that explains the relationship between the notion of human love and happiness. Secondly, the connection between the need to experience God’s love in order to reciprocate it through freedom will be brought to our discussion. In that sense, to love and being loved on earth becomes a matter of acknowledging the true nature of human freedom up to the point of, willingly, co-participating in God’s plan to become parents, that is: to procreate and educate the children of God. Finally, the commitment of every society to rethink and value the function of parents to build society from the inside, the “global home” for human beings, will be exalted. Key Words: Love, Family, Parenthood, Freedom, Happiness.

Moral Formation in Christ, the Beautiful Beloved

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Loving Relationship ◽  
Falling In Love

Christ’s healing of humanity consists, crucially, in forming human beings for loving relationship with himself and others. In this respect, Christ also takes the role of the beautiful beloved. Believers become pilgrims by falling in love with the beautiful Christ by the initiative of the Holy Spirit, who cleanses their eyes to see him as beautiful and enkindles desire in their hearts. By desiring and loving the beautiful Christ, the believer is conformed to him and learns to walk his path. Desiring the beautiful Christ forms a believing community shaped aesthetically and morally for a particular way of life: pilgrimage to the heavenly homeland. Formation is both earthly and eschatological, for so too is the journey and the activity of the pilgrim.

Desires of the Spirit

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-231
Author(s):  
Simeon Zahl
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Culturally Embedded

This chapter examines the work of the Holy Spirit in the transformation and sanctification of Christians. It argues that accounts of sanctification that build upon the idea of an instantaneous implantation of new moral powers in the Christian upon receipt of the Spirit have significant problems. It then turns to Augustine’s theology of delight and desire to provide an alternative theology of sanctification that is experientially and affectively more persuasive. The second half of the chapter shows that this “affective Augustinian” approach has a number of further advantages. It can account for the fact that sanctifying experience of the Spirit exhibits variability and that human beings are often a mystery to themselves; it can affirm a qualified role for practice and habituation in Christian sanctification without overestimating the transformative power of Christian practice; and it directs attention to the social as well as materially and culturally embedded dimensions of sanctification. The chapter concludes by arguing that an “affective Augustinian” vision of Christian transformation can also account effectively and compassionately for the persistence of sin in Christians.

The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament

1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Classical Expression ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Church

In its classical expression Christianity means a new life which God makes available for all who become apprentices of His Son Jesus Christ. Now sinful men cannot unaided appropriate the blessings of that life. Besides the message of the Prodigal who “ came to himself” the Gospel exhibits in the Cross divine love that has entered the far country and suffers the ordeal inevitably imposed there by human sin. Really to hear the Gospel is to respond in penitent love to the God who was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. But how shall men hear unless there be preachers? The Gospel by God's gracious provision is brought to each new generation by those who enter into the apostolic tradition; apostolic, because in history we depend upon those who were the first eye-witnesses of Jesus and His resurrection. Nevertheless the apostles preached under the authority of the Holy Spirit who testifies to Christ and proceeds from the eternal life of the Father and the Son (see John 14.26; 15.26 f.). Paul the apostle preached in the power of the Spirit (Rom. 15.19; 1 Cor. 2.4); it was God who had given apostles to the Church, inspiring them with wisdom and knowledge (1 Cor. 12.8, 28). We find similar testimony in Eph. 3.5 (a revelation disclosed to the apostles and prophets by the Spirit); 1 Pet. 1.12, which links preaching and inspiration; and Acts where we read of men filled with the Spirit, like Stephen and Philip, going out as evangelists.

The Sunsum of Onyame: Akan Perspectives on an Ecological Pneumatology

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Owusu Agyarko
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Natural State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Dynamic Equivalent ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

Abstract The Akan notion of sunsum may form the basis for an ecological pneumatology. Sunsum may be understood as the central, unifying vitality which integrates various elements in Akan thought. Amongst the Akan, God has Sunsum and anything which exists in its natural state has sunsum, a spark from God. The concept of sunsum expresses how the “one” (Onyame) and the “many” (nature including human beings) are related. It is the dynamic equivalent of the Holy Spirit in the Akan Twi Bible. Sunsum is energy, life, communicating itself and transcending itself. It is absolute spirit, who enlivens the whole universe. The Akan concept of sunsum suggests the possibility of a union of the concrete with the universal. The concept of sunsum may therefore enable one to speak of the Holy Spirit and its relation both to God and to nature. This proposal may also enable one to understand the Holy Spirit as cosmic in nature and as divine in being. This contribution offers theological reflection on the implications of the notion of sunsum for ecotheology.

scholarly journals SAKRAMEN BAPTIS SEBAGAI SAKRMEN KESELAMATAN DAN PERSEKUTUAN PARA MURID KRISTUS

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Ola Rongan Wilhelmus
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Good News ◽  
Evil Spirit ◽  
Disciples Of Christ ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Spirit Baptism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
God's Grace

Baptism is a sacrament instituted and used by God Himself through Christ to purify, sanctify and to save human being out of  the power of evil spirit. Baptism celebration maintaining in a proper and faithful manner will be brought about the fullness grace and favor of God to the Catholic faithful. The experiences of the Catholic faithful regarding God’s grace and favor should not be only responded by full faith but also be properly responded by full action to bring it to the entire nations and human races. The Catholic Church as a communion of Christ disciples has been sent and guided by the Holy Spirit to spread out such grace and favor of God to all nations. Pastoral assembly of Surabaya Diocese conducted in 2019 strongly articulated that Baptism is a mean exactly used by God Himself to channel His grace and salvation to the entire human beings. Hence, the Disciples of Christ have to fully respond it by full faith and opened hart.  Christ Himself has sent His disciples to collectively spread out the grace, favor and salvation of God to all over the world.  This good news has to be brought firstly to the inner circle of the Catholic families, neighbours, communities, parishes, and diocese then to the society in general.

The Spirit

2019 ◽  
pp. 293-308
Author(s):  
Wolf Krötke
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The One ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

This chapter presents Barth’s understanding of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Jesus Christ. It demonstrates the way in which Barth’s pneumatology is anchored in his doctrine of the Trinity: the Holy Spirit is understood as the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, the One whose essence is love. But Barth can also speak of the Holy Spirit in such a way that it seems as if the Holy Spirit is identical to the work of the risen Jesus Christ and his ‘prophetic’ work. The reception of the pneumatology of Karl Barth thus confronts the task of relating these dimensions of Barth’s understanding of the Holy Spirit so that the Spirit’s distinct work is preserved. For Barth, this work consists in enabling human beings to respond in faith, with their human possibilities and their freedom, to God’s reconciliation in Jesus Christ. In this faith, the Holy Spirit incorporates human beings into the community of Jesus Christ—the community participates in the reconciling work of God in order to bear witness to God’s work to human beings, all of whom have been elected to ‘partnership’ with God. Barth also understood the ‘solidarity’ of the community with, and the advocacy of the community for, the non-believing world to be a nota ecclesiae (mark of the church). Further, to live from the Holy Spirit, according to Barth, is only possible in praying for the coming of the Holy Spirit.

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