Reading Ignatius in Kathmandu

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Cattoi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Buddhist Text ◽  
Religious Other ◽  
The Way

The goal of this chapter is to reflect on a joint reading of Ignatius of Loyola’s Exercises and Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra (The Way of the Bodhisattva) in seminars that were held in 2009 and 2012 at the Center for Buddhist Studies (CBS) in Kathmandu, Nepal. The seminars were a privileged occasion where the comparative reading of a Buddhist text and a Christian text was supplemented with a “dialogue of life” between practitioners of different traditions. This chapter presents some theological insights gained from these conversations, while also exploring the challenges of teaching these texts in a comparative and dialogical manner. In line with Francis Clooney’s call for a new systematic theology that is simultaneously confessional and interreligious, the chapter also attempts to lay foundations for a new “pedagogy of interreligious encounter,” which is characterized by “vulnerability” to the religious other while remaining grounded in a specific religious tradition.

scholarly journals ROME AND CARTHAGE BY A.V. TIMOFEEV: ON THE PROBLEM OF THE GENESIS OF “HISTORICAL FANTASY” AS A GENRE VARIETY OF RUSSIAN ROMANTIC DRAMA OF THE 19TH CENTURY

2021 ◽  
pp. 142-163
Author(s):  
ARKADII MAN'KOVSKII
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Romantic Drama ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Fantasy ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Way

The paper explores the genre of scarcely studied play by Russian minor writer Alexei V. Timofeev (1812-1883) Rome and Carthage (1837). Timofeev’s contemporary literary critic Osip Senkovskii treated like poet’s failure his use of romantic techniques in the play on ancient plot. Taking into account this opinion the paper analyzes the paratextual elements in the play, the way of describing characters, the division of the play into acts, the connection of the plot events with historical facts. The paper argues that the play approaches the kind of romantic drama, which the author suggests to call “historical fantasy” Its main feature is the coexisting in the plot mythology and religious tradition, on the one hand, and historical events, on the other, the heroes of historical chronicles and the heroes of folk legends, belief in miracles and rationalism. The goal of historical fantasy is to produce a generalized image of the time, to convey the spirit of the epoch while the dramatic action takes a secondary place. Samples of the genre were given in the works of Alexander A. Shakhovskoi, Alexander I. Gertsen, Apollon N. Maikov. Timofeev’s play was just in the way to this kind of drama.

Een wandelgids bij het leven: Een analytische evaluatie van de Christelijke Dogmatiek

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Rik Peels
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
The Core ◽  
General Perspective ◽  
The Way

This article provides a critical analysis and evaluation of Gijsbert van den Brink and Kees van der Kooi’s Christian Dogmatics, a lucid and welcome presentation of the core ideas that can be found in the Christian faith. First, the book is characterized, both from a more general perspective and from a specifically theological point of view. Next, it is argued that there is a discrepancy between the way the authors characterize systematic theology and the way they practice systematic theology themselves. After that, their assessment of natural theology is criticized and several problems in the Christian Dogmatics are highlighted, such as the fact that the authors’ anthropology fails to take holistic dualism seriously. Finally, it is argued that in some places, the authors ask important questions, but then provide answers to different questions without addressing the original issues.

Classical Daoist Meditation, 400–100 bce

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold D. Roth
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Attentional Focus ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemplative Practice ◽  
Meditative Practice ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

Daoism is the indigenous Chinese religious tradition that has been a major feature of this culture for over two thousand years. It is grounded in a comprehensive cosmology of the Way (Dao) that derives from the ancient practice of a meditation that emphasizes attentional focus and mental tranquility attained through an apophatic (self-negating) practice of systematically emptying consciousness of its normal contents. These foundational ideas are present in a series of surviving works that include the famous Laozi and Zhuangzi, which have recently been supplemented by newly excavated texts and newly appreciated extant ones known for millennia. They contain a meditative practice that has been called “inner cultivation” and that emphasizes methods that develop concentration in order to empty the mind of all common thoughts, desires, emotions, and perceptions. These lead ultimately to self-transcending experiences in which adepts experience a complete union with the non-dual Way. The return to dualistic consciousness is accompanied by a fresh and transformed cognition in which adepts are able to spontaneously and effortlessly act in harmony with all new circumstances. This flowing cognition is able to effect transformations in other people and in the body politic and so becomes part of the arcana of government advocated to local kings by the scholar-practitioners of this tradition. These apophatic methods constitute one of the main contemplative practice streams within the Daoist religious tradition and its continuities with later Daoism are detailed by Louis Komjathy in another chapter of this volume.

scholarly journals Toward a Systematic Theology of the Sanctuary – Part I

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-227
Author(s):  
John C. Peckham
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Fundamental Theology ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

This article is part one of an essay that offers some preliminary thoughts regarding the relationship of the sanctuary and systematic theology, focusing on just a few aspects which expose the relationship between the two. This article considers the nature of theological systems, issues related to an Adventist system of theology, and the relationship between fundamental theology and the sanctuary in particular, with attention to some broad, competing views of the sanctuary that are integrally related to the way one conceives of broader theological principles. This sets the stage for the second article, which will conclude the essay by discussing a number of important systematic elements that shed light on a potential systematic theology of the sanctuary.

“Your Son Will Be the Scourge of Islam”

Numen ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 562-588
Author(s):  
Eszter Spät
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
The Way

Abstract Using analyses of myths and fieldwork material, the article studies the way Yezidis, a small ethno-religious group of the Middle East, appropriated the Muslim figure of Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya, the second Umayyad caliph. In his Yezidi myth, he appears as a divine being who was incarnated on earth in order to subvert sharia and replace it with a more spiritual form of Islam, equated with the Yezidi religion at the time the myth was composed. The myth is constructed around the historical reputation of Yazīd as an antinomian figure, but interprets it in a way that mocks orthodox Islam and echoes the ethos of Yezidi religion. In their turn, the Prophet Muhammad and Caliph Muʿāwiya appear as inferior figures, representing a religious tradition that is superseded by Yazīd’s arrival. The myth throws light on the historical development of Yezidi religion, as it reflects an earlier stage, when Yezidis considered orthodox Islam a related, albeit rival and inferior, form of religion. However, today, as Yezidis emphasize their distance from anything related with Islam and Arabic culture, the myth may come to be rejected despite its profoundly Yezidi nature.

scholarly journals ILMU-ILMU SOSIAL DAN TEOLOGI KONTEKSTUAL | SOCIAL SCIENCES AND CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Ignas Kleden
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Contextual Theology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

<b>Abstract</b> This text describes the connection between the social sciences and contextual theology. The social sciences investigate the way people relate in society via various institutions and structures, which facilitate relationships in the economic, cultural and political spheres.The social sciences also investigate the way human beings relate to nature for two reasons, namely to defend themselves against the power of nature, and also to enable them to benefit from nature. Systematic theology studies the relationship between God and humanity in light of revelation and faith. Contextual theology investigates to what extent human institutions and structures, interpersonal relationships and the relationship between humanity and nature, become a help or a hindrance to expressing faith in the Lord, and to listening to what is said by God in God’s revelation to humankind. <b>Keywords:</b> Social Sciences, Contextual Theology, Society, People, Institution, Humanity, Relationship, Lord, Structures. <b>Abstrak:</b> Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan hubungan antara ilmu-ilmu sosial dan teologi kontekstual. Ilmu-ilmu sosial menyelidiki hubungan manusia dengan manusia dalam masyarakat melalui berbagai institusi dan struktur yang memungkinkan dan memudahkan hubungan itu dalam ekonomi, kebudayaan, dan politik. Ilmu-ilmu sosial juga meneliti hubungan manusia dengan alam dalam kaitannya dengan dua tujuan, yaitu mempertahankan diri terhadap kekuatan alam, dan memanfaatkan alam untuk keperluan hidupnya. Di sini teknologi dan ekonomi memainkan peranan yang menentukan. Teologi sistematik meneliti berbagai aspek relasi Tuhan dengan manusia melalui wahyu serta relasi manusia dengan Tuhan melalui iman. Teologi kontekstual meneliti sejauh mana institusi dan struktur yang dibangun manusia, baik dalam relasi antar-manusia maupun dalam relasi manusia dan alam, menjadi fasilitas atau hambatan baginya dalam menyatakan iman kepada Tuhan, dan dalam mendengarkan apa yang disampaikan Tuhan dalam wahyu-Nya kepada manusia. <b>Kata kunci:</b> Ilmu Sosial, Teologi Kontekstual, Masyarakat, Manusia, Institusi, Kemanusiaan, Hubungan, Tuhan, Struktur

scholarly journals TOWARD A SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY OF THE SANCTUARY—PART II

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-31
Author(s):  
John C. Peckham
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Fundamental Theology ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

This article is part two of an essay that offers some preliminary thoughts regarding the relationship of the sanctuary and systematic theology, focusing on just a few aspects which expose the relationship between the two. The first article considered the nature of theological systems, issues related to an Adventist system of theology, and the relationship between fundamental theology and the sanctuary in particular, with attention to some broad, competing views of the sanctuary that are integrally related to the way one conceives of broader theological principles. The first article set the stage for this second article, which concludes the essay by discussing a number of important systematic elements that shed light on a potential systematic theology of the sanctuary

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reformed, Anglican, and Lutheran Reception of Aquinas

2021 ◽  
pp. 342-358
Author(s):  
Steven J. Duby
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
Lutheran Theology ◽  
The Way ◽  
Critical Moments

This chapter provides an account of the way in which some major figures in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Reformed, Anglican, and Lutheran theology interacted with the theology of Thomas Aquinas. As in contemporary Protestant engagement of Aquinas, this reception of the Angelic Doctor’s thought has both appreciative and critical moments. The section on the Reformed tradition discusses the role of Aquinas in the Systematic Theology of Charles Hodge and the early volumes of Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics. The section on the Anglican tradition discusses the role of Aquinas in the ecclesiological reflections of E. B. Pusey and Charles Gore. Finally, the section on the Lutheran tradition discusses the role of Aquinas in the work of Isaak Dorner.

Ñ??ananda’s Concept and Reality: An Assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Stephen Evans
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Way

Bhikkhu Ñ??ananda’s Concept and Reality has exerted a certain influence on Buddhist Studies, from translations of the P?li Nik?yas to interpretations of doctrine. Far beyond proposing translations for papañca and papañca-saññ?sa?kh?, the book lays out a thesis, supported and illustrated by frequent citations from the Nik?yas, concerning the role of concepts and language itself in perpetuating bondage to sa?s?ra. Concepts and language are said to obscure reality in a self-perpetuating cycle that bars us from liberation. The thesis has intuitive force and profound implications for understanding the P?li sources. However, the presentation is flawed by inconsistencies, lack of clarity, and overly interpretive translations of the P?li — it is not even clear in important details precisely what Ñ??ananda’s intended thesis is. The present offering is an attempt at clarifying this seminal work so as to enable building upon it. The given thesis is elucidated, making its problems explicit, and suggesting resolutions, arriving finally with a proposal of what he may have intended. Along the way, I indicate where given support from the Nik?yas is weak.

A Close Look into an Immigrant Workers' Church in Beijing

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
House Church ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
House Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner Strength ◽  
The Way

Christianity, although a worldwide religious tradition, is counted as a minority in the People's Republic of China (PRC), both by the Christians themselves and by non-believers. "House churches" in the PRC, being illegal and thus underground, are the "minority in a minority." Based on two years of participant-observation, I give a description of the beliefs and rituals of an immigrant workers' Protestant house church system in Beijing. Belief in the Christian God's ability to provide relief from suffering by performing earthly miracles and by bringing the faithful to eternal life in heaven are the main attractions drawing people to the house churches. I argue that the way the believers value and emphasize miracles performed by the Christian God is derived primarily from an orientation found in the Chinese popular religious tradition. Additionally, glorification of suffering in Christianity gives the believers inner strength to face the trials of the world.

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